Dreams Nature And Practices As Signs Of The Future In The Middle Ages

Author : Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004519176

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Dreams, Nature, and Practices as Signs of the Future in the Middle Ages by Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner Pdf

A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain certain incidents retrospectively through signs that had occurred in advance. In that sense, signs are always considered a portent of future events. In different societies, and at different times, the written or unwritten rules regarding their interpretation varied, although there was perhaps a common understanding of these processes. This present volume collates essays from specialists in the field of prognostication in the European Middle Ages. Contributors are Klaus Herbers, Wolfram Brandes, Zhao Lu, Rolf Scheuermann, Thomas Krümpel, Bernardo Bertholin Kerr, Gaelle Bosseman, Julia Eva Wannenmacher (†), Matthias Kaup, Vincent Gossaert, Jürgen Gebhardt, Matthias Gebauer, Richard Landes.

Author : Emily O'Gorman,William San Martín,Mark Carey,Sandra Swart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003801955

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History by Emily O'Gorman,William San Martín,Mark Carey,Sandra Swart Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The roles of non-humans and the more-than-human in the telling of environmental histories, from animals and plants to insects as vectors of disease and the influences of water and ice, the changing theoretical approaches and the influence of concepts in related areas such as animal and discard studies. How changes in theories and concepts are shaping methods in environmental history and shifting approaches to traditional sources like archives and oral histories as well as experiments by practitioners with new methods and sources. Responses to a range of current complex problems, such as climate change, and how environmental historians can best help mitigate and resolve these problems. Diverse ways in which environmental historians disseminate their research within and beyond academia, including new modes of research dissemination, teaching, and engagements with stakeholders and the policy arena. This is an important resource for environmental historians, researchers and students in the related fields of political ecology, environmental studies, natural resources management and environmental planning. Chapters 9, 10 and 26 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004690615

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Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World by Anonim Pdf

How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004445703

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Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future by Anonim Pdf

Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future investigates the Jewish components of Jewish divination, showing practitioners and their practices within their cultural and intellectual contexts, along with their fears, wishes, and anxieties, drawing from original sources in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic.

Author : Michael David Bailey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742533875

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Magic and Superstition in Europe by Michael David Bailey Pdf

The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He explains how magic was understood, constructed, and frequently condemned and how magical beliefs and practices have changed over time yet also remain vital even today.

Author : Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110499773

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Prognostication in the Medieval World by Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner Pdf

Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015059251226

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Encyclopedia of Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ulrich Marzolph,Richard van Leeuwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arabian nights
ISBN : IND:30000095372987

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The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia by Ulrich Marzolph,Richard van Leeuwen Pdf

Author : Leonard Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Dreams
ISBN : UOM:39015049471892

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Insomnia and Its Relation to Dreams by Leonard Gilman Pdf

Author : Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359197903

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Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Paul S. MacDonald Pdf

An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.

Author : Robert Westman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520355699

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The Copernican Question by Robert Westman Pdf

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.

Author : Tze-ki Hon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004500037

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The Other Yijing by Tze-ki Hon Pdf

This book explains the different ways that the Yijing (Book of Changes) was used in Chinese society. It demonstrates that the Yijing was a living text used by the educated elite and the populace to address their fear and anxiety.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103087946

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Medical Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11034052

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The Medical Times and Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most,Salvatore Settis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674035720

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The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton,Glenn W. Most,Salvatore Settis Pdf

The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.