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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, DOI: 10.1163/156798911X546198 ARIES . () – ARIES www.brill.nl/arie Book Reviews Johann Valentin Andreae, Rosenkreuzerschriften , ed. by Roland Edighoffer, Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt: Frommann-Holzboog (Johann Valentin Andreae Ge- sammelte Schriften, ), . pp. ISBN ----. In this volume—the third in a new edition of Johann Valentin Andreae’s (–) works—Roland Edighoffer presents a critical edition of Andreae’s three Rosicrucian writings: the Fama Fraternitatis (Call of the Fraternity), the Confessio Fraternitatis (Confession of the Fraternity) and the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz, Anno (Chemical wedding of Christian Rosencreutz). According to this volume, all texts were authored c. – c. , and appeared in print in multiple editions between and . Additionally, a further work, the Allgemeine Reformation der gantzen weiten Welt (Universal reformation of the whole wide world), is also included in this volume; a subject to which I shall later return. The anonymously-printed texts loosed a short debate concerning “Rosicru- cian” opinions in central Europe, which was at its most intensive between c. and c. , although it also spilled beyond these dates. Claiming to issue from a secret brotherhood founded by a medieval monk named Chris- tian Rosencreutz, they were imbued
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Published: Jan 1, 2011
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