Horoscopes and Public Spheres : : Essays on the History of Astrology /

Horoscopes and Public Spheres : : Essays on the History of Astrology / / ed. by Günther Oestmann, Darrel, H. Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad.

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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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MitwirkendeR:
ABRY, JOSÈPHE-HENRIETTE,
AZZOLINI, MONICA,
BROECKE, STEVEN VANDEN,
CAIOZZO, ANNA,
CAMPION, NICHOLAS,
CURRY, PATRICK,
HEILEN, STEPHAN,
HÜBNER, WOLFGANG,
OESTMANN, GÜNTHER,
ORTHMANN, EVA,
PINGREE, DAVID,
RODRíGUEZ-ARRIBAS, JOSEFINA,
RUTKIN, H. DARREL,
STUCKRAD, KOCKU VON,
HerausgeberIn:
Oestmann, Günther,
Rutkin, Darrel, H.,
Stuckrad, Kocku von,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2005
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Religion and Society , 42
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.) :; Num. ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Horoscopes and History
  • Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity
  • Sulla’s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1)
  • What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69)
  • The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea
  • The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources
  • Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse
  • Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology
  • Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar
  • The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World
  • Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer
  • Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
  • Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe
  • Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan
  • Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano’s Horoscope Collections
  • The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After
  • J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism
  • Epilogue
  • The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription
  • Contributors
  • Index

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