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Sorry for posting disconnected texts before posting about what Hermeticism is, I really wanted to post about these subjects before that.

Hermetism is a Late Antique Egyptian religion that would die out due to the massive popularity of Christianity, but the concept of Hermes Trismegistus would continue up until today, scholars generally divide the literature into theological and peactical Hermetism, though that distinction did not exist in during the time Hermetism actually was a living religion.

>Antiquity

It's philosophical basis lies in Middle Platonism, Neopythagoreanism and Stoicism, and competed with Christianity, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism which share the same aforementioned philosophical basis as it and all four influenced eachother as well, what survivea from this time period are the two texts the Latin Asclepius and the Corpus Hermeticum, the latter is a collection of different treatises that are heterogeneous in nature, you won't get any sort of consistent orthodox theology from reading them, besides these there is also the connection too magic, astrology and alchemy, for alchemy you'd have to look into people likw Zosimus or Stephan of Alexandria but that Byzantine tradition was heavily connected to Neoplatonism.

>Middle Ages

In the Latin West only the Asclepius and Liber Hermetis were known until the 12th century, Liber Hermetis was an astrological text which introduced the concept of decans into Latin Astrology, in the Islamicate world Hermes was connected to the 'occult sciences' and many books were written on them, the Emerald Tablet which is like 20 lines is the most famous, but there's also the Magical text the Picatrix and Avicenan seems to he influenced by Hermetism.