UID:
edocfu_9958355222402883
Format:
1 online resource (298p.):
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Num. ill.
ISBN:
9783110925128
Series Statement:
Religion and Society ; 42
Content:
Dieser Band bringt eine Sammlung neuer Essays, die untersuchen, welche Rolle Horoskope und deren allgemeine Verwendung in der westlichen Kulturgeschichte von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert gespielt haben.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Horoscopes and History --
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Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity --
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Sulla’s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) --
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What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) --
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The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea --
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The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources --
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Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse --
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Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology --
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Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar --
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The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World --
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Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer --
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Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe --
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Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe --
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Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan --
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Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano’s Horoscope Collections --
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The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After --
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J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism --
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Epilogue --
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The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110925128
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925128
