Education
He returned to England to take a Bachelor of Arts in English, French and Spanish from the University of London and an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Ideas from the University of Sussex.
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A captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science, and religion at the court of the doomed dreamer Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague. At the end of the sixteenth century, the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The Theatre of the World is the enchanting story of Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great talents and minds of his times than in the exercise of his power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around him a galaxy of famous figures: the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the German mathematician Johannes Kepler, and the English magus John Dee. Entranced, like Hamlet, by the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions. He faced the threats of religious discord and the Ottoman Empire, along with deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result, he lost his empire and nearly his sanity, but he enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years War. The Theatre of the World is a beguiling and dramatic human story filled with angels and devils, high art and low cunning, talismans and stars. It offers a captivating perspective on a pivotal moment in the history of Western Civilization.
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( Peter Marshall set off on a quest to the places where a...)
Peter Marshall set off on a quest to the places where astrology has been practiced for millennia—China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Initially skeptical, Marshall was eventually persuaded by his research and travels that astrology not only contains the psychology of antiquity, but also offers profoundly modern insights into the workings of the mind. Astrology conveys important truths about the human character and the course of history, he argues, and can help us find our true place and purpose in the universe.
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He returned to England to take a Bachelor of Arts in English, French and Spanish from the University of London and an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Ideas from the University of Sussex.
He has written fifteen books which are being translated into fourteen different languages. He wrote, presented and partly filmed the 6-part HTV series "Voyage Around Africa", first shown in 1994. He also wrote and presented the two-part series "Celtic Gold: A Voyage around Ireland" for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Wales in 1995, which later became a book
Born in Bognor Regis, England, Marshall became a boarder at Steyning Grammar School in the Sussex Downs.
He then sailed around the world as a purser cadet in the Merchant Navy before teaching English in Senegal, West Africa. As a part-time tutor, he taught in the Extra-Mural departments of the University of London and the University of Wales, the Open University, and the Brighton and Chelsea schools of art
He went in 1980 to live in Snowdonia National Park in North Wales to write his first book and stayed on for 21 years, first living in a remote cottage in the mountains and then down by the sea. He now lives in Devon, England.
He has two children, Emily and Dylan.
He has been described by Resurgence magazine as one of the 25 "visionary voices" who have shaped the new world view in the last quarter of the 20th century. His philosophy of Liberation Ecology is presented in Riding the Wind (1998). Marshall has been described as "a passionate ecologist and animal liberationist" by The Guardian.
Marshall has a paternal Irish grandmother.
( Peter Marshall set off on a quest to the places where a...)
(A captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science,...)
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Society of Authors.