Editing Frances Yates (section)

===International acclaim: 1961&ndash;81===
Yates's scholarly productivity increased in the 1960s and 1970s,{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=132}} when she also became a regular book reviewer for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=139}}
In 1961, Yates authored ''[[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]]'', which has come to be widely regarded as her masterpiece. In her diary, she wrote that she now "saw Hermeticism as the clue to Bruno and the whole view of Renaissance magic in relation to him."{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=120}} She had been encouraged to adopt this view by her friend, D.P. Walker.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=127}} The book was published in 1964 by Cambridge University Press.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=132}} The work brought her international scholarly fame, and in 1965 she went on a lecture tour of the United States.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=134&ndash;136}} Her next publication was a part-sequel to ''Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition'', being published as ''[[The Art of Memory]]'' in 1966.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=136&ndash;138}} In 1967, she was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA).<ref>{{cite web|title=YATES, Dame Frances (Amelia)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U170686|website=Who Was Who|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=20 April 2017|date=April 2014}}</ref> In 1969 she published ''Theatre of the World''.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=136, 141}} Her next book, published by Routledge in 1972, was ''The Rosicrucian Enlightenment'', in which she looked at the influence of the [[Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian manifestos]] in 16th century Europe.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=146, 148}}

In 1971, Yates was awarded an honorary doctorate from the [[University of East Anglia]], which was presented to her by [[Angus Wilson]],{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=107, 144}} and in the New Year Honours 1972 Yates was appointed an [[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] ''for services to Art History''.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45554|date=31 December 1971|supp=1|page=12}}</ref>{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=143}} In October 1973, she was awarded a £5000 [[Wolfson Foundation|Wolfson Award]] for her wider oeuvre,{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=165}} and in January 1974, Yates delivered four Northcliffe lectures at [[University College London]] (UCL). They would subsequently be published by Routledge in 1975 as ''Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach''.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=169&ndash;176, 178}} She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter Y|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterY.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=29 July 2014}}</ref> That same year also saw the publication of ''Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century'', which collected together lectures that she had presented in the 1950s.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=154}} In February 1976, [[Smith College]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] offered Yates the Kennedy Professorship, which she declined.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=181}}

Yates was promoted in the [[1977 Birthday Honours#Dame Commander .28DBE.|Queen's Birthday Honours 1977]] to [[Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) ''for services to Renaissance studies''.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=47234|supp=1|page=7079|date=10 June 1977}}</ref>{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=186}} In 1978, the [[University of Pisa]] awarded her the Premio Galileo Galilei for her contribution to the study of Italian history.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=55}} In March 1979, the [[British Academy]] awarded her a £2000 grant so that she could continue to travel from her home to London in order to conduct research.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=198}}

In 1974, an [[academic conference]] was held at [[UCLA]]'s [[Clark Library]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], that debated and discussed what was termed the "Yates thesis".{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=193}} The last decade of her life saw her critics become both more numerous and more outspoken;{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=146}} however, she gained a champion in the form of historian [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], who positively reviewed her works and became a personal friend.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=145}} In 1979, Yates published ''The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age'', in which she discussed the place of the [[Christian Cabala]] during the Renaissance and its influence on Christian [[Neoplatonism]]. It did not prove as successful as her books published in the 1960s.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=181, 187-89}}

It was during the early 1970s that she began writing an autobiography, inspired by [[E. M. Forster]]'s biography of [[Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]]; it was left unfinished on her death, although portions were published posthumously.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=xxiii, 177}}
In March 1979, Yates moved her sister Ruby into a nursing home,{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=190&ndash;191}} before embarking on a lecture tour of the U.S.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=191}} Ruby died in May 1980, leaving Yates as the last surviving member of her immediate family.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=198}} In 1980 Yates was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822172416/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00004003 |title=Frances Amelia Yates (1899 - 1981) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date=22 August 2020}}</ref> In summer 1981, Yates traveled on a lecture tour of Hungary, coming to believe that Anglophone scholarship had neglected Central Europe.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=210}} Her final lecture was delivered at [[Manchester Cathedral]], and was on the subject of [[John Dee]], whom Yates was taking an increasing research interest in.{{sfn|Jones|2008|pp=201&ndash;202}} Shortly after, she fell over at home, and was hospitalised with a cracked [[femur]].{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=217}} She recovered and returned home, where she died in her sleep.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=218}} Her body was [[cremation|cremated]] in an Anglican memorial service.{{sfn|Jones|2008|p=219}}