Horoscopes and public spheres
Subtitle: essays on the history of astrology
By: edited by Guenther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad.
Contributors: Oestmann, Günther, 1959-; Rutkin, H. Darrel.; Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-
Series: Religion and society ;; 42; Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;; 42.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9783110185454
Subjects: Astrology -- History.; Horoscopes -- History.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: horoscopes and history; title: Horoscopes and the public sphere in antiquity; title: What was Agrippina waiting for?; title: The Emperor Hadrian in the horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea; title: The possible survival of Babylonian astrology in the fifth century CE : a discussion of historical sources; title: Medieval astrology : Muslim and Jewish discourse; title: Zoroastrian historical astrology; title: Circular motions : private pleasure and public prognostication in the nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar; title: The horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a cosmological vision in the Islamic world; title: Historical horoscopes of Israel : Abraham bar Riyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer; title: The use of horoscopes in Renaissance and early modern Europe; title: Various uses of horoscopes : astrological practices in early modern Europe; title: Reading health in the stars : politics and medical astrology in Renaissance Milan; title: Evidence and conjecture in Cardano's horoscope collections; title: The function of horoscopes in biographical narrative : Cardano and after; title: J.W.A. Pfaff and the rediscovery of astrology in the age of romanticism.