A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Band 49) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004183523 ISBN 13: 9789004183520

Verlag: Brill, 2014

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It has been called "the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced" (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in this unique collection. Brill's Companion to Renaissance Astrology brings together a wide array of expertise from around the globe to explain the method and matter of this cultural form, including the Arab and Classical heritage, the medieval tradition, the clash with organized religion, the influence on knowledge and the competition with newly emerging ways of knowing, summarizing the current state of research and suggesting new paths.

Contributors include: Giuseppe Bezza, Dieter Blume, Claudia Brosseder, Brendan Dooley, William Eamon, Ornella Faracovi, Hiro Hirai, Wolfgang Hübner, Eileen Reeves, Steven Vanden Broecke, and Graziella Federici Vescovini.

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Brendan Dooley (PhD Chicago 1986) is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. Previous books include Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (Princeton 2002) and Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy (Lexington Books, 2001).

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• Verlag: Brill
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004183523
• ISBN 13: 9789004183520
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 454
• Herausgeber: Dooley Brendan
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