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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. ‘A Certain Foretelling of Future Things’: Divination and Onomancy, Definitions and Types 18
7. 2. Platonic Relationships: Onomancy’s Intellectual and Visual Contexts 38
8. 3. Lost in Translation: Greek Beginnings and Latin Corruptions, c. 400–c. 1125 59
9. 4. Body of Evidence: the Manuscript Corpus 76
10. 5. Anathema Sit: Condemnation and Punishment 94
11. 6. Certain Death? Onomancy and the Physician 112
12. 7. Trial and Error: Onomancy and the Nobility 134
13. 8. A Numbers Game: Onomancy at the University 151
14. 9. Morbid Curiosity: Onomancy in the Monastery 165
15. 10. Reformations: Onomancy c. 1500–c. 1700 180
16. Conclusion 209
17. Appendix I. Transcriptions and Editions of ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ Texts 214
18. Appendix II. List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500 237
19. Bibliography 239
20. Index 259