How Long to Read John Dee's Actions With Spirits

How Long Does it Take to Read John Dee's Actions With Spirits?

It takes the average reader 17 hours and 30 minutes to read John Dee's Actions With Spirits by Christopher Whitby

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the earliest extant records of the supposed communication with angels and spirits of John Dee (1527-1608) with the assistance of his two mediums or 'scryers', Barnabas Saul and Edward Kelly. Volume 2 of this work is a transcription of the records in Dee's hand contained in Sloane MS 3188, which has been transcribed only once before, by Elias Ashmole in 1672. Volume 1 is an introduction and thorough commentary to the text which is primarily explaining its many obscurities. The author describes the physical state of the manuscript and its history then continues with a biography of Dee and his scryers and some background to Renaissance occult philosophy. Further chapters address the arguments that the manuscript represents a conscious fraud or a cryptographical exercise and describe the magical system and instruments evolved during the communications or 'Actions'. The last, fascinating chapter examines Dee's motives for believing so strongly in the truth of the Actions and suggests that a principal motive was the conviction, not held by Dee alone, that a new age was about to dawn upon earth.

How long is John Dee's Actions With Spirits?

John Dee's Actions With Spirits by Christopher Whitby is 1,050 pages long, and a total of 262,500 words.

This makes it 354% the length of the average book. It also has 321% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read John Dee's Actions With Spirits Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 23 hours and 54 minutes to read John Dee's Actions With Spirits aloud.

What Reading Level is John Dee's Actions With Spirits?

John Dee's Actions With Spirits is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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