Horoscopes and public spheres: essays on the history of astrology
Introduction: horoscopes and history -- Horoscopes and the public sphere in antiquity -- What was Agrippina waiting for? -- 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 -- Me...
| Published in: | Religion and society |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin New York
De Gruyter
2005
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Religion and society (42)
Year: 2005 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Religion and society
42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Astrology
/ Culture
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Horoscopes History B Astrology History B Conference program |
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Inhaltstext (Verlag) Table of Contents Table of contents |
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| Summary: | Introduction: horoscopes and history -- Horoscopes and the public sphere in antiquity -- What was Agrippina waiting for? -- 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 -- Medieval astrology : Muslim and Jewish discourse -- 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 Riyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer -- 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 |
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| ISBN: | 3110185458 |