Dr Nicholas Campion (UK University of Wales Trinity Saint David)

A History of Western Astrology Volume II

The Medieval and Modern Worlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. This book examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. It challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781441181299
• ISBN-10: 1441181296
• Artikelnr.: 25607140

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Campion is Associate Professor in Cosmology and Culture, Principal Lecturer in the Institute of Humanities and Education, and Programme Director of the on-line, distance-learning Master's degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Early Medieval World 2. The Twelfth Century Renaissance 3. The
Thirteenth Century: Magic and Politics 4. Medieval Cosmology 5. The High
Middle Ages 6. The Fifteenth Century: the pagan revival 7. Reform and
Revolution 8. Renaissance Magic 9. The Seventeenth Century: the Last
Flowering Decline 10. The Newtonian Revolution 11. The Esoteric
Enlightenment 12. The Radical Sky 13. The Revival of Horoscopic Astrology
14. The Theosophical Enlightenment 15. The Psychological Cosmos 16.
Astrology in Popular Culture 17. Science and Scepticism 18. Astrology as a
Modern Religion 19. Astrology and the Post-Modern Condition