Table of Contents
Frontmatter — Foreword — Contents — Introduction: Astrologers’ Theory of History — Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History — Celestial influence - the major premiss of astrology — Luther und die Astrologie — Melanchthon’s Astrology — Georg Spalatiti and the Astrologers — The Battle of the Booklets: Prognostic Tradition and Proclamation of the Word in early sixteenth-century Germany — The Flugschriften and their Importance in Religious Debate: A Quantitative Approach — Popular Astrology and Prophecy in the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries: Johannes Lichtenberger — Johann Virdung von Haßfurt, sein Leben und seine astrologischen Flugschriften — D'après Pigghe, Nifo et Lucien: le rhétoriqueur Jean Thénaud et le déluge à la cour de France — Many ends for the world Luca Gaurico Instigator of the Debate in Italy and in Germany — From the watery Trigon to the fiery Trigon: Celestial Signs, Prophecies and History — Index of Names — Index of Manuscripts and Rare Books — Contributors — Backmatter
