Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook

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Prognostication in the Medieval World

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Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

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Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, Hans-Christian Lehner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

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In gratiam et in memoriam
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Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner

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Introduction
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Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner

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Part I: Introductory Surveys
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Divination in Antiquity
15
David Engels and Alex Nice

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Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World
55
Elizabeth Boyle

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Pagan Traditions of Prognostication in the Germanic Languages
67
John McKinnell

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Prognostication in Pagan Beliefs among Slavs in the Middle Ages
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Leszek P. Słupecki

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Prognostication in the Medieval Western Christian World
109
Matthias Heiduk

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Prognostication in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
153
Michael Grünbart

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Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Culture
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Avriel Bar-Levav

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Medieval Traditions of Prognostication in the Islamic World
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Petra G. Schmidl

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Prognostication in Early Modern Times – Outlook
243
Ulrike Ludwig

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Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Hannes Möhring

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Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Wolfram Brandes

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Jewish Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval World
300
Natalie E. Latteri

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Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Islamic World
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Delia Cortese

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Prophecy and Visions
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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Anke Holdenried

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Michael T. Miller

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Delia Cortese

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Dream Interpretation
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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Albert Schirrmeister

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Steven M. Oberhelman

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Annelies Kuyt

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Delia Cortese

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Mantic Arts
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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Stefano Rapisarda

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
446
Michael Grünbart

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
453
Shraga Bar-On

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Anne Regourd

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Charles Burnett

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Anne-Laurence Caudano

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Petra G. Schmidl

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Luke Demaitre

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Glen M. Cooper

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Dov Schwartz

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Glen M. Cooper

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Philipp Nothaft

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Jean Lempire

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Ortal-Paz Saar

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Daniel M. Varisco

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Weather Forecasting
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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Barbora Kocánová

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Ioannis G. Telelis

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Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
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Dov Schwartz

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Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
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Charles Burnett

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Quantifying Risks
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Traditions and Practices in Medieval Western Christian World
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James Franklin

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Part III: Repertoire of Written Sources and Artefacts
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Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Eastern Christian World
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Jean Lempire

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Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Western Christian World
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Philipp Nothaft

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Culture of Prognosis in the Medieval Western Christian Tradition of the Mirror-of-Princes
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Bee Yun

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Debating Astrology in the Renaissance: Pierre d’Ailly (1351–1420), Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
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Daniel Canaris

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Didactic Poems on Prognostication in the Islamic Middle Ages
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Montse Díaz-Fajardo

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Divination and Prognostication in the Cairo Genizah
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Ortal-Paz Saar

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

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Dream Books and Treatises on Dream Interpretation in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Maria Jennifer Falcone

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The End is Near: Medieval Mappae mundi and the Apocalypse
768
Alessandro Scafi

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Games and Prognostication: The Examples of Libro de los Juegos and De vetula
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Matthias Heiduk

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Gematria and Prognostication
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Moshe Idel

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Geomancy in the Islamic World
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Matthew Melvin-Koushki

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Geomantic Artefacts in the Medieval Islamic World
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Glen M. Cooper and Petra G. Schmidl

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Hagiography in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Wolfram Brandes

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Hagiography in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Klaus Herbers

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The Importance of Thunder: Brontologia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Michael Grünbart

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Introductions to Astrology
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Margaret Gaida

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Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Jewish Traditions
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Michael T. Miller

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Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Latin Traditions
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Andreas Bihrer

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Karaite Objections to Prognostication
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Daniel J. Lasker

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Late Medieval German Texts on Superstition
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Marco Heiles

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Legal Sources in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Wolfram Brandes

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Lekanomanteia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Michael Grünbart

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Libro de las Suertes: an Example of Inter-Cultural Exchanges in Late-Medieval Iberia
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Helena Avelar de Carvalho

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Mantic Alphabets in the Medieval Western Christian World
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László Sándor Chardonnens

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Mantic Practices in the Collectio Hispana
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Cornelia Scherer

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Mathematical Instruments in Astrology
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Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

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Medical Plates in Astrological Medicine
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Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas

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Medieval Latin Liturgical Commentaries
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Miriam Czock

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Novels and Poems in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Stefano Rapisarda

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Ornithomancy in Medieval Jewish Literature
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Avishai Bar-Asher

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Papal Prophecies in the Middle Ages
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Alberto Spataro

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Physiognomy among Medieval Jews
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Irmi Dubrau

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Physiognomy and Chiromancy: From Prediction and Diagnosis to Healing and Human Correction (Zohar 2, 70a–78a; Tiqqunei Zohar, Tiqqun 70)
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Ron Margolin

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Prognostics in Medieval Byzantine Fictional Literature
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Carolina Cupane

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Prognostication in Latin Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
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Hans-Christian Lehner

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Prognostication in Latin Historiography (ca. 400–1300 CE)
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Hans-Christian Lehner

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Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Law and Legal Thought
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Ephraim Kanarfogel

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Prognostication in Learned Magic of the Medieval Western Christian World
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Bernd-Christian Otto and Matthias Heiduk

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Prophecy and Prognostication in Visual Art of the Medieval Western Christian World
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Daniela Wagner

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The Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār/ Secretum secretorum
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Regula Forster

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The Shoulder-Bone as a Mantic Object
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Stefano Rapisarda

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Sortes
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Marco Heiles

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Three Images of Celestial Phenomena in Sixteenth-Century German Illustrated Broadsheets
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Daniela Wagner

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Tractates on the Division of the Sciences in the Medieval Western Christian World
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Alexander Fidora

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Treatises for Predicting hora mortis in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
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Michael Grünbart

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Zījes
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Margaret Gaida

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Prognostication; Middle Ages; transculturality

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Prognostication in the Medieval World

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About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

In gratiam et in memoriam

Introduction

Divination in Antiquity

Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World

Pagan Traditions of Prognostication in the Germanic Languages

Prognostication in Pagan Beliefs among Slavs in the Middle Ages

Prognostication in the Medieval Western Christian World

Prognostication in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Culture

Medieval Traditions of Prognostication in the Islamic World

Prognostication in Early Modern Times – Outlook

Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval World

Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World

Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World

Traditions and Practices in Medieval Western Christian World

Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Eastern Christian World

Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Western Christian World

Culture of Prognosis in the Medieval Western Christian Tradition of the Mirror-of-Princes

Debating Astrology in the Renaissance: Pierre d’Ailly (1351–1420), Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)

Didactic Poems on Prognostication in the Islamic Middle Ages

Divination and Prognostication in the Cairo Genizah

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

Dream Books and Treatises on Dream Interpretation in the Medieval Western Christian World

The End is Near: Medieval Mappae mundi and the Apocalypse

Games and Prognostication: The Examples of Libro de los Juegos and De vetula

Gematria and Prognostication

Geomancy in the Islamic World

Geomantic Artefacts in the Medieval Islamic World

Hagiography in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Hagiography in the Medieval Western Christian World

The Importance of Thunder: Brontologia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Introductions to Astrology

Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Jewish Traditions

Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Latin Traditions

Karaite Objections to Prognostication

Late Medieval German Texts on Superstition

Legal Sources in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Lekanomanteia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World

Libro de las Suertes: an Example of Inter-Cultural Exchanges in Late-Medieval Iberia

Mantic Alphabets in the Medieval Western Christian World

Mantic Practices in the Collectio Hispana

Mathematical Instruments in Astrology

Medical Plates in Astrological Medicine