Doubts and Criticism on Astrology in Western Traditions from Antique to Early Modern Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. In gratiam et in memoriam XIII
4. Volume 1
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Introductory Surveys
7. Divination in Antiquity 15
8. Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World 55
9. Pagan Traditions of Prognostication in the Germanic Languages 67
10. Prognostication in Pagan Beliefs among Slavs in the Middle Ages 85
11. Prognostication in the Medieval Western Christian World 109
12. Prognostication in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 153
13. Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Culture 175
14. Medieval Traditions of Prognostication in the Islamic World 189
15. Prognostication in Early Modern Times – Outlook 243
16. Part II: Traditions and Practices of Prognostication in the Middle Ages
17. Eschatology and Millenarism
18. Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Western Christian World 269
19. Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 284
20. Jewish Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval World 300
21. Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Islamic World 314
22. Prophecy and Visions
23. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 329
24. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 342
25. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 356
26. Dream Interpretation
27. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 371
28. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 386
29. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 400
30. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 413
31. Mantic Arts
32. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 429
33. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 446
34. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 453
35. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 468
36. Astral Sciences
37. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 485
38. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 502
39. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 516
40. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 532
41. Medical Prognostication
42. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 551
43. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 567
44. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 585
45. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 588
46. Calendrical Calculations
47. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 605
48. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 619
49. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 633
50. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 636
51. Weather Forecasting
52. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World 651
53. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 665
54. Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World 686
55. Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World 689
56. Quantifying Risks
57. Traditions and Practices in Medieval Western Christian World 697
58. Volume 2
59. Part III: Repertoire of Written Sources and Artefacts
60. Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Eastern Christian World 713
61. Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Western Christian World 718
62. Culture of Prognosis in the Medieval Western Christian Tradition of the Mirror-of-Princes 723
63. Debating Astrology in the Renaissance: Pierre d’Ailly (1351–1420), Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) 730
64. Didactic Poems on Prognostication in the Islamic Middle Ages 742
65. Divination and Prognostication in the Cairo Genizah 746
66. Doubts and Criticism on Astrology in Western Traditions from Antique to Early Modern Literature 752
67. Dream Books and Treatises on Dream Interpretation in the Medieval Western Christian World 760
68. The End is Near: Medieval Mappae mundi and the Apocalypse 768
69. Games and Prognostication: The Examples of Libro de los Juegos and De vetula 777
70. Gematria and Prognostication 785
71. Geomancy in the Islamic World 788
72. Geomantic Artefacts in the Medieval Islamic World 794
73. Hagiography in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 798
74. Hagiography in the Medieval Western Christian World 804
75. The Importance of Thunder: Brontologia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 811
76. Introductions to Astrology 814
77. Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Jewish Traditions 818
78. Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Latin Traditions 821
79. Karaite Objections to Prognostication 828
80. Late Medieval German Texts on Superstition 831
81. Legal Sources in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 841
82. Lekanomanteia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 846
83. Libro de las Suertes: an Example of Inter-Cultural Exchanges in Late-Medieval Iberia 849
84. Mantic Alphabets in the Medieval Western Christian World 852
85. Mantic Practices in the Collectio Hispana 857
86. Mathematical Instruments in Astrology 861
87. Medical Plates in Astrological Medicine 874
88. Medieval Latin Liturgical Commentaries 884
89. Novels and Poems in the Medieval Western Christian World 888
90. Ornithomancy in Medieval Jewish Literature 895
91. Papal Prophecies in the Middle Ages 899
92. Physiognomy among Medieval Jews 908
93. Physiognomy and Chiromancy: From Prediction and Diagnosis to Healing and Human Correction (Zohar 2, 70a–78a; Tiqqunei Zohar, Tiqqun 70) 915
94. Prognostics in Medieval Byzantine Fictional Literature 925
95. Prognostication in Latin Commentaries on the Book of Revelation 932
96. Prognostication in Latin Historiography (ca. 400–1300 CE) 937
97. Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Law and Legal Thought 944
98. Prognostication in Learned Magic of the Medieval Western Christian World 948
99. Prophecy and Prognostication in Visual Art of the Medieval Western Christian World 960
100. The Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār/ Secretum secretorum 965
101. The Shoulder-Bone as a Mantic Object 971
102. Sortes 978
103. Three Images of Celestial Phenomena in Sixteenth-Century German Illustrated Broadsheets 984
104. Tractates on the Division of the Sciences in the Medieval Western Christian World 991
105. Treatises for Predicting hora mortis in the Medieval Eastern Christian World 996
106. Zījes 999
107. Index 1003