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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463462703321

Titolo

Horoscopes and public spheres [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the history of astrology / / edited by Guenther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2005

ISBN

3-11-092512-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Religion and society ; ; v. 42

Classificazione

LC 52000

Altri autori (Persone)

OestmannGünther <1959->

RutkinH. Darrel

StuckradKocku von <1966->

Disciplina

133.509

Soggetti

Astrology - History

Horoscopes - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Horoscopes and History / OESTMANN, GÜNTHER / RUTKIN, H. DARREL / STUCKRAD, KOCKU VON -- Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity -- Sulla's Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) / HÜBNER, WOLFGANG -- What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) / ABRY, JOSÈPHE-HENRIETTE -- The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea / HEILEN, STEPHAN -- The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources / CAMPION, NICHOLAS -- Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse -- Māshā'allāh's Zoroastrian Historical Astrology / PINGREE, DAVID -- Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar / ORTHMANN, EVA -- The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World / CAIOZZO, ANNA -- Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer / RODRíGUEZ-ARRIBAS, JOSEFINA -- Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe -- Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe /



RUTKIN, H. DARREL -- Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan / AZZOLINI, MONICA -- Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano's Horoscope Collections / BROECKE, STEVEN VANDEN -- The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After / STUCKRAD, KOCKU VON -- J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism / OESTMANN, GÜNTHER -- Epilogue -- The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription / CURRY, PATRICK -- Contributors -- Index