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The tarot : history, symbolism, and divination
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The tarot : history, symbolism, and divination

Author: Robert Michael Place
Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Tarot is one of the few books that cuts through conventional misperceptions to explore the Tarot deck as it really developed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe - not, as some would suggest, in the far reaches of Egyptian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author and artist Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Place, Robert Michael.
Tarot.
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2005
(OCoLC)607589456
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Michael Place
ISBN: 1585423491 9781585423491
OCLC Number: 56370055
Description: 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. The history of the tarot --
2. The mythical history of the tarot --
3. The search for meaning --
4. Interpreting the major and minor Arcana --
5. The Waite-Smith tarot --
6. Hieroglyphs from the soul.
Responsibility: Robert M. Place.
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"The Tarot is one of the few books that cuts through conventional misperceptions to explore the Tarot deck as it really developed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe - not, as some would suggest, in the far reaches of Egyptian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author and artist Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling portrait of the Tarot's true origins, without overlooking the deck's mystical dimensions."--BOOK JACKET.

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