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.
Tarcherperigee The tarot: history, symbolism, and divination, paperback/robert place
