A Kingdom of Stargazers: astrology and authority in the late medieval crown of Aragon

Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. A Kingdom...

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Main Author: Ryan, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2011]
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Online Access:DE-859
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DE-473
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Summary:Meanwhile, the kings' contemporaries within the noble, ecclesiastical, and mercantile elite had their own reasons for wanting to know what the future held, but their engagement with the occult was directly related to the amount of power and authority the monarch exhibited and applied. A Kingdom of Stargazers joins a growing body of scholarship that explores the mixing of religious and magical ideas in the late Middle Ages
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780801463150
DOI:10.7591/9780801463150