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