John Dee built the greatest library in England. He advised the most powerful queen in Europe. He coined the phrase "British Empire."

Then Edward Kelley knocked on his door.

In Part 2, the angels go quiet, the library gets looted, and a covenant signed in Třeboň changes everything. What happened in that room in 1587 — and what it cost Dee to believe.

CREDITS: Hosts: Lee, Josh, Jen | Edited by: Jeremy/Lee

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SOURCES

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PRIMARY SOURCES:

Dee, John. Personal diaries and almanacs (1577–1601). British Library (Sloane MS 3188, 3677).

Dee, John. Mysteriorum Libri Quinque. Sloane MS 3188, British Library.

Casaubon, Méric. A True & Faithful Relation (1659).

Dee, John. Compendious Rehearsall (1592).

BIOGRAPHIES:

Woolley, Benjamin. The Queen's Conjurer (2001). Henry Holt.

French, Peter J. John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (1972). Routledge.

Parry, Glyn. The Arch-Conjurer of England (2012). Yale.

EDWARD KELLEY:

Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses (1691–1692).

Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631).

Browne, Sir Thomas. Correspondence to Elias Ashmole (1674).

ENOCHIAN LANGUAGE:

Laycock, Donald C. The Complete Enochian Dictionary (1978; revised 2001). Weiser.

Churton, Tobias. The Golden Builders (2005). Weiser.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT:

Radio Prague International. "Alchemy and Wife Swapping in Renaissance Bohemia" (2021).

Rožmberk family archives, Třeboň Castle.

Roberts & Watson. John Dee's Library Catalogue (1990). Bibliographical Society.

Royal College of Physicians. "The Lost Library of John Dee" exhibition (2016).