Robin B. Barnes (Professor of History, Professor of History, Davids

Astrology and Reformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the integral role of astrological concepts and imagery in preparing the ground for the Reformation, and in shaping the distinctive characteristics of German Christian culture through the early seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780199736058
• ISBN-10: 0199736057
• Artikelnr.: 47869275

Autorenporträt

Robin Barnes grew up in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. A graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, he received a doctorate in European history from the University of Virginia. Since 1980 he has lived in Davidson, North Carolina with his wife Ann Lee Bressler, the mother of their two grown children and also an historian. After family, friends, learning, and teaching, he harbors aspirations as a sailor and outdoorsman.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Introduction
1. From Athens to Augsburg
2. Mathematics and the Sacred
3. The Flood
4. The Campaign against Superstition
5. Confessional Constellations
6. Fate and Faith
7. Centrifugal Forces
Postscript
Literature
Index