Introduction to "Exploring Tarot: History"

A draft in progress . . .

Over the past few months, I’ve been revising and updating Part One of my first book, The Tarot: History, Mystery, and Lore. The four chapters of Part One originally traced the history of Tarot from before we have any material artifacts (decks, images, writings) to around 1980. They included a lot of detail about the period from 1450 to 1925, but very li…