Nicholas Campion

A History of Western Astrology Volume II (eBook, PDF)

The Medieval and Modern Worlds

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Astrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign. In the modern west astrology thrives as part of our culture despite being a pre-Christian, pre-scientific world-view.

Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high theological speculation, was used to advise kings and popes, and to arrange any activity from the beginning of battles to the most auspicious time to have one's hair cut.

Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Spanning the period between the collapse of classical astrology in the fifth century and the rise of popular astrology on the web in the twentieth, Campion challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
Concluding with a discussion of astrology's popularity and appeal in the twenty-first century, Campion asks whether it should be seen as an integral part of modernity or as an element of the post-modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441107497
• Artikelnr.: 38305498

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