Screen LibraryHoroscopes and public spheres : essays on the history of astrology /
Dieser Band bringt eine Sammlung neuer Essays, die untersuchen, welche Rolle Horoskope und deren allgemeine Verwendung in der westlichen Kulturgeschichte von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gespielt haben.
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2012. ©2005 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Religion and society ;
volume 42 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Dieser Band bringt eine Sammlung neuer Essays, die untersuchen, welche Rolle Horoskope und deren allgemeine Verwendung in der westlichen Kulturgeschichte von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gespielt haben. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110925128 |
| Index Number: | BF1671 |
| CLC: | B991-09 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Horoscopes and History -- Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity -- Sulla s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) -- What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) -- The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea -- The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources -- Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse -- M sh all h s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology -- Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar -- The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World -- Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar iyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer -- Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe -- Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe -- Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan -- Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano s Horoscope Collections -- The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After -- J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism -- Epilogue -- The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription -- Contributors -- Index |