Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Horoscopes and Public Spheres

Essays on the History of Astrology

Edited by: Günther Oestmann , Darrel, H. Rutkin and Kocku von Stuckrad

Volume 42 in the series Religion and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925128

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About this book

This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Focusing on the public appearance of astrological rhetoric, the essays break new ground for a better understanding of the function of horoscopes in public discourse. The volume's three parts address the use of imperial horoscopes in late antiquity, the transformation of doctrines and rhetorics in Islamic medieval contexts, and the important status of astrology in early modern Europe. The combination of in-depth historical studies and methodological considerations results in an important contribution to religious and cultural studies.

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Günther Oestmann, Hamburg University, Germany; H. Darrel Rutkin, Villa I Tatti Florence, Italy; Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
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Introduction: Horoscopes and History GÜNTHER OESTMANN, H. DARREL RUTKIN and KOCKU VON STUCKRAD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity
Sulla’s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) WOLFGANG HÜBNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) JOSÈPHE-HENRIETTE ABRY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea STEPHAN HEILEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources NICHOLAS CAMPION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse
Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology DAVID PINGREE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar EVA ORTHMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World ANNA CAIOZZO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer JOSEFINA RODRíGUEZ-ARRIBAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe H. DARREL RUTKIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan MONICA AZZOLINI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano’s Horoscope Collections STEVEN VANDEN BROECKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After KOCKU VON STUCKRAD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism GÜNTHER OESTMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Epilogue
The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription PATRICK CURRY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 290
Illustrations
- Other: Num. ill.
Keywords: Astrology; history; horoscopes; reception of antiquity; religious studies

eBook

Published: February 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110925128

Hardcover

Published: November 16, 2005
ISBN: 9783110185454