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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 Egyp-tian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling portrait of the Tarot's true origins, without overlooking the deck's mystical dimensions.Indeed, Place uncommonly weds reliable historiography with a practical understanding of the intuitive help and divinatory guidance that the
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Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee
Release date: 17 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 1585423491 | ISBN-13: 9781585423491
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Release date: 17 March 2005
ISBN-10 : 1585423491 | ISBN-13: 9781585423491
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