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Avelar de Carvalho, Helena, An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France. The Notebooks of S. Belle, Leiden, Brill (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 11), 2021, xii + 423 pp.

Resum

This book explores the notebooks of S. Belle, an astrologer who lived in late fifteenth-century France, as a case study of late medieval astrological practice. These notebooks combine astrological doctrine, a large collection of horoscopes, an almanac, and three complete judgements of nativities. By studying Belle's methods, processes of learning, and practices, this book contributes to a better understanding of the internal architecture of astrology in the pre-modern world; this includes its techniques, methodologies, goals, transmission, and development throughout history. It offers an internalist view of the practice of astrology, as a counterpart to the existing research into astrology's social and cultural impact.

Matèries

Astronomia i astrologia

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