Joanne Edge

Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain

Questioning Life, Predicting Death

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781914049248
• ISBN-10: 1914049241
• Artikelnr.: 68855034

Autorenporträt

JOANNE EDGE is a historian of medieval and early modern Britain. She is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. A certain foretelling of future things: Divination and
onomancy, definitions and types 2. Platonic relationships: onomancy's
intellectual and visual contexts 3. Lost in translation: Greek beginnings
and Latin corruptions, c. 400-1125 4. Body of evidence: The manuscript
corpus 5. Anathema sit: condemnation and punishment 6. Certain death?:
onomancy and the physician 7. Trial and error: onomancy and the nobility 8.
A numbers game: onomancy at the university 9. Morbid curiosity: onomancy in
the monastery 10. Reformations: onomancy c. 1500-c. 1700 Conclusion
Appendices I. Transcriptions and editions of 'Sphere of Life and Death'
texts II. List of manuscripts containing onomancies of British provenance,
1150-1500