D. P. Walker

D. P. Walker: Daniel Pickering Walker (1914-1985) was an English historian and author of several noted studies on the occult in Western history. Walker was trained at Oxford. He spent much of his career at the Warburg Institute at the University of London^[1]. His best known work is 1958's Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella. The book examines the role of magic in the lives and thought of such diverse figures as Marsilio Ficino, Francis Bacon and Tommaso Campanella, and its overall influence on the Renaissance. Other works include the Decline of Hell (1964), the Ancient Theology (1972) and Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (1981).

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Articles by D.P. Walker from the New York Review of Books

Excerpts on 'Orpheus the Theologian' from the Ancient Theology

References

^ Biographical Note at Penn State Press. http://www.psupress.psu.edu/books/titles/0-271-02045-8.html

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