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Chardonnens, László Sándor, "Hemerology in Medieval Europe", dins: Harper, Donal - Kalinowski, Marc (eds.), Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han, Leiden - Londres, Brill, 2017, pp. 373-407.
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- In this chapter, hemerological practices known in medieval Europe are introduced as a counterpoint to the practices transmitted in the daybooks (rishu) and related hemerological texts of early China. Fifth- to fifteenth-century Europe is extensive ground to cover, spanning a millennium of hemerological practices and of religious and secular responses to hemerology that were continually changing. Several thousand surviving texts are scattered across almost as many manuscripts (and printed books from the late fifteenth century onward) and were transmitted in Greek, Latin, and most European vernacular languages and their regional variants. In view of the many languages, the wide range of sources, and the considerable time span, there is no comprehensive study of medieval European divination comparable to the outstanding study of Chinese mantic techniques in Dunhuang manuscripts dating mainly from the ninth and tenth centuries CE. This chapter is not a comprehensive analysis but should be read as an introduction to medieval European hemerology, and a selective introduction at that. The aim has been not to analyze how hemerological practices in medieval Europe correspond to and differ from practices in the ancient Chinese daybooks but to contextualize the ideological background that enabled the introduction and transmission of hemerology in medieval Europe and to introduce specific medieval European hemerological practices.
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- https://www.academia.edu/35287403/Hemerology_in_Med ...
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