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A Kingdom of Stargazers : Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Kingdom of StargazersDDC classification:
  • 133.50946
LOC classification:
  • BF1714.S65
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Traveling South -- Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future -- 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days -- 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology -- 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic -- Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers -- 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent -- 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary -- 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era -- Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Traveling South -- Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future -- 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days -- 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology -- 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic -- Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers -- 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent -- 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary -- 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era -- Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene -- Bibliography -- Index.

In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.

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