Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface x
5. chapter 1. A World Full of Magic 1
6. chapter 2. The Rays of Celestial Virtue 16
7. chapter 3. Conjuring the Future 30
8. chapter 4. A Royal Occult Institute 38
9. chapter 5. The Kabbalah of Creation 47
10. chapter 6. ‘The Great Conjuror’ 60
11. chapter 7. Hunting for the Philosopher’s Stone 71
12. chapter 8. War Amongst the Alchemists 81
13. chapter 9. Recovering the Lost Empire 94
14. chapter 10. ‘More is hid, than uttered’: The Philosopher’s Stone and Empire 103
15. chapter 11. Rehabilitating ‘The Arch-Conjuror’ 114
16. chapter 12 .Defending Elizabeth against the Dark Arts 127
17. chapter 13. ‘The winking eye of Achitophel’ 138
18. chapter 14. ‘Misbegotten time’: Reforming the Calendar 146
19. chapter 15. Called to a King’s Office: Laski and the Second Coming 162
20. chapter 16. ‘Chief Governor of our Philosophical proceedings’ 179
21. chapter 17. The Magnificent Master Alchemist 194
22. chapter 18 .The Counter-Revolution Against Magic 205
23. chapter 19. Conjuring up a Spanish Conquest 217
24. chapter 20. Checkmate: Exiling the Conjuror to Manchester 238
25. chapter 21. Demonising the Exorcists 257
26. Further Reading 273
27. Abbreviations 275
28. Notes 276
29. Index 322