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Kulturgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Wahrsagerei

  • Christa Agnes Tuczay
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2012
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The quest for truth, foreseeing the future, solving the enigmas of the past, finding answers to acute questions: all this was promised by oracles already in antiquity. Although the rise of Christianity meant a break with this tradition, the art of fortune telling continued to thrive, partly based on models from antiquity but in Christianized form, partly using genuinely new methods in medieval times. The secret scholarly treatises on oracle techniques, which were only reluctantly tolerated by the church, were always subject to prohibition, since theologians condemned the belief in fate and the use of magic to influence reality as heresy.
This book discusses all medieval forms of fortune telling and places special emphasis on their history of context, reception and discourse, also including a chapter on antiquity.

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Christa Tuczay, Universität Wien, Österreich.


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eBook published on:
October 1, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110240412
Hardcover published on:
September 14, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110240405
Paperback published on:
May 8, 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9783111253688
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Front matter:
10
Main content:
371
Illustrations:
26
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