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Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe - Theories and Approaches (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe - Theories and Approaches (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to
Renaissance Europe brings together ten of Paola Zambelli's papers
on the subject, four of which are published in English for the
first time. The papers in Part I of this volume deal with theories:
the ideas of astrology and magic held by Renaissance thinkers;
astrologers' ideas on universal history and its cycles; i.e.
catastrophes and rebirths, theories; and myths regarding the
spontaneous generation of man himself. Part II focuses on the role
of astrologers in Renaissance society. As political counsellors,
courtiers, and academics, their ideas were diffused and appreciated
in both popular and high culture. Part III looks at the Great
Conjunction of 1524 and on the long and extended debate surrounding
it, which would not have been possible prior to Gutenberg, since
astrologers printed numberless booklets (full of religious and
political innuendo) predicting the catastrophe - flood, as well as
earthquake or fire - foreseen for February 1524 (which, in the
event, proved to be a month of extraordinary mild weather). Part IV
reprints some review-articles of twentieth century scholars whose
writing has contributed to our understanding of the historical
problems concerning magic and other connected debates.
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