A Kingdom of Stargazers : : Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon / / Michael A. Ryan.
Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion...
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Ryan, Michael A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Kingdom of Stargazers : Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon / Michael A. Ryan. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2017 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Traveling South -- Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future -- 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days -- 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology -- 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic -- Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers -- 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent -- 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary -- 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era -- Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will, and some clerical authorities argued that it almost certainly entailed the summoning of spiritual forces considered diabolical. We know that occult beliefs and practices became widespread in the later Middle Ages, but there is much about the phenomenon that we do not understand. For instance, how deeply did occult beliefs penetrate courtly culture and what exactly did those in positions of power hope to gain by interacting with the occult? In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.Ryan focuses on the reigns of Pere III (1336–1387) and his sons Joan I (1387–1395) and Martí I (1395–1410). Pere and Joan spent lavish amounts of money on astrological writings, and astrologers held great sway within their courts. When Martí I took the throne, however, he was determined to purge Joan's courtiers and return to religious orthodoxy. As Ryan shows, the appeal of astrology to those in power was clear: predicting the future through divination was a valuable tool for addressing the extraordinary problems—political, religious, demographic—plaguing Europe in the fourteenth century. Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. A Kingdom of Stargazers joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the mixing of religious and magical ideas in the late Middle Ages. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Astrology and politics History To 1500. Astrology, Spanish History To 1500. Divination Spain Aragon History To 1500. Prophecies (Occultism) Spain Aragon History To 1500. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Religious Studies. HISTORY / Medieval. bisacsh astrology, astrology in the Middle Ages, history of astrological studies, history of science, Iberian kingdom of Aragon, court of Aragon, magic, alchemy, political power, authority, providence. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463150 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801463150 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801463150/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Traveling South -- Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future -- 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days -- 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology -- 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic -- Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers -- 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent -- 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary -- 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era -- Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Traveling South -- Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future -- 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days -- 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology -- 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic -- Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers -- 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent -- 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary -- 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era -- Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene -- Bibliography -- Index |
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