NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER
2024
Our
programme of events will recommence in January
We wish you a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year
ADVANCE NOTICE
William Shakespeare, Francesco Giorgi and the Harmony of the Spheres
ANDREW
BAKER
Monday
27 January
In
the chair
Professor Grevel Lindop
In
her 1979 book
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age Frances
Yates suggested that Lorenzo’s speech about music in Act V of
The
Merchant of Venice
, and possible kabbalistic symbolism of the key
characters in the play, might be influenced by the Venetian friar Francesco
Giorgi’s book
De harmonia mundi (1525). This talk will introduce
Francesco Giorgi as a leading Franciscan intellectual in Venice, with
close links to the Jewish community and a political involvement with
England. Drawing on recent research it will give an overview of his
book and its influence in England in France. Shakespeare may have had
other sources for his musical imagery, possibly the anonymous
Praise
of Musicke
(1586) but Giorgi was primarily a Franciscan, a movement
which encouraged spiritual and scientific learning. Shakespeare, it
appears, had an extraordinary sympathy for the Franciscan Order.
ANDREW BAKER is a composer, a retired librarian, and historical researcher.
He has particular interests in the little-known Platonists of the 18th
century and Franciscan tradition. He has published
Hidden Music,
a Franciscan Musical Theology
(2023) and Thomas Anson of Shugborough
and his Friends
(2024).
Venue
& Timing
The Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London, WC2A 3ED
Nearest Underground – Holborn
Doors open 6.10pm, Lecture begins 6.30pm
Admission
£10
FREE for members of the Temenos Academy
FREE for full-time students with ID card
E temenos...@myfastmail.com
T 07513 883 335
[Image
from Franchinus Gaffurius’
Practica musicae, 1496]
Scholarship and the Sacred
PROFESSOR JOHN CAREY
Monday 3 February
Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis
DR RUPERT SHELDRAKE & DR MARK VERNON
Monday 17 February
Imagination: The Hospitality of Being
DR VALENTIN GERLIER
Thursday 13 March
Humanity and Nature in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
PAUL KINGSNORTH
Monday 17 March
Full details will be available on our events
page
in the coming days.
To book: temenos...@myfastmail.com or 07513 883 335
READING
ESSENTIAL TEXTS SEMINARS
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
DR JOSEPH MILNE
15
January – 19 March (Wednesdays, 10 sessions)
Fully
Booked
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reserve list. You will be informed if a place becomes available.
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ARCHIVE
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TEMENOS,
and the texts of seventy articles from
Temenos Academy Review.
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