{"product_id":"horoscopes-and-public-spheres-essays-on-the-history-of-astrology-9783110185454","title":"Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eG. Oestmann, H. D. Rutkin, and K. von Stuckrad: \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction: Horoscopes and History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eW. Hübner: \u003c\/em\u003eSulla's Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,3 1,l); \u003cem\u003eJ.-H. Abry: \u003c\/em\u003eWhat Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69); \u003cem\u003eSt. Heilen:\u003c\/em\u003e The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea; \u003cem\u003eN. Campion:\u003c\/em\u003e The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eD. Pingree:\u003c\/em\u003e Māshāallāh's Zoroastrian Historical Astrology; \u003cem\u003eE. Orthmann:\u003c\/em\u003e Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar; \u003cem\u003eA. Caiozzo: \u003c\/em\u003eThe Horoscope of Iskandar Sultān as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World; \u003cem\u003eJ. Rodríguez-Arribas:\u003c\/em\u003e Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Hiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eH. D. Rutkin: \u003c\/em\u003eVarious Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modem Europe; \u003cem\u003eM. Azzolini:\u003c\/em\u003e Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan; \u003cem\u003eSt. Vanden Broecke: \u003c\/em\u003eEvidence and Conjecture in Cardano's Horoscope Collections; \u003cem\u003eK. von Stuckrad: \u003c\/em\u003eThe Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After; \u003cem\u003eG. Oestmann: \u003c\/em\u003eJ. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism \u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eP. Curry:\u003c\/em\u003e The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516382667095,"sku":"9783110185454","price":120.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/horoscopes-and-public-spheres-essays-on-the-history-of-astrology-9783110185454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}