Fama Fraternitatis ca. 1610

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Fama Fraternitatis
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Abstract

A masterpiece of Christian utopianism, the Fama Fraternitatis (or “Fame of the Fraternity”) fi rst appeared as a German manuscript in 1610, almost certainly the work of a young German theologian named Johann Valentin Andreae. The Fama seemed to its readers to promise the fruit of a global reformation of science and religion, instigated by an enlightened secret society. This society had allegedly been founded by one “C. R.” at the dawn of the fifteenth century.

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