From the watery Trigon to the fiery Trigon: Celestial Signs, Prophecies and History

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Astrologers’ Theory of History 1
5. Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History 29
6. Celestial influence - the major premiss of astrology 45
7. Luther und die Astrologie 101
8. Melanchthon’s Astrology 109
9. Georg Spalatiti and the Astrologers 123
10. The Battle of the Booklets: Prognostic Tradition and Proclamation of the Word in early sixteenth-century Germany 129
11. The Flugschriften and their Importance in Religious Debate: A Quantitative Approach 153
12. Popular Astrology and Prophecy in the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries: Johannes Lichtenberger 177
13. Johann Virdung von Haßfurt, sein Leben und seine astrologischen Flugschriften 195
14. D'après Pigghe, Nifo et Lucien: le rhétoriqueur Jean Thénaud et le déluge à la cour de France 215
15. Many ends for the world Luca Gaurico Instigator of the Debate in Italy and in Germany 239
16. From the watery Trigon to the fiery Trigon: Celestial Signs, Prophecies and History 265
17. Index of Names 281
18. Index of Manuscripts and Rare Books 292
19. Contributors 294
20. Backmatter 295