Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook

Contents
In gratiam et in memoriam
Volume 1
Introduction
Part I: Introductory Surveys
Divination in Antiquity
Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World
Pagan Traditions of Prognostication in the Germanic Languages
Prognostication in Pagan Beliefs among Slavs in the Middle Ages
Prognostication in the Medieval Western Christian World
Prognostication in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Culture
Medieval Traditions of Prognostication in the Islamic World
Prognostication in Early Modern Times – Outlook
Part II: Traditions and Practices of Prognostication in the Middle Ages
Eschatology and Millenarism
Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval World
Traditions and Expectations in the Medieval Islamic World
Prophecy and Visions
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Dream Interpretation
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Mantic Arts
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Astral Sciences
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Medical Prognostication
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Calendrical Calculations
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Weather Forecasting
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Western Christian World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Jewish Traditions and Practices in the Medieval World
Traditions and Practices in the Medieval Islamic World
Quantifying Risks
Traditions and Practices in Medieval Western Christian World
Volume 2
Part III: Repertoire of Written Sources and Artefacts
Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Eastern Christian World
Calendars, Astronomical Tables, and Easter Tables in the Western Christian World
Culture of Prognosis in the Medieval Western Christian Tradition of the Mirror-of-Princes
Debating Astrology in the Renaissance: Pierre d’Ailly (1351–1420), Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
Didactic Poems on Prognostication in the Islamic Middle Ages
Divination and Prognostication in the Cairo Genizah
Doubts and Criticism on Astrology in Western Traditions from Antique to Early Modern Literature
Dream Books and Treatises on Dream Interpretation in the Medieval Western Christian World
The End is Near: Medieval Mappae mundi and the Apocalypse
Games and Prognostication: The Examples of Libro de los Juegos and De vetula
Gematria and Prognostication
Geomancy in the Islamic World
Geomantic Artefacts in the Medieval Islamic World
Hagiography in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Hagiography in the Medieval Western Christian World
The Importance of Thunder: Brontologia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Introductions to Astrology
Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Jewish Traditions
Journeys to the Other World: Medieval Latin Traditions
Karaite Objections to Prognostication
Late Medieval German Texts on Superstition
Legal Sources in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Lekanomanteia in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Libro de las Suertes: an Example of Inter-Cultural Exchanges in Late-Medieval Iberia
Mantic Alphabets in the Medieval Western Christian World
Mantic Practices in the Collectio Hispana
Mathematical Instruments in Astrology
Medical Plates in Astrological Medicine
Medieval Latin Liturgical Commentaries
Novels and Poems in the Medieval Western Christian World
Ornithomancy in Medieval Jewish Literature
Papal Prophecies in the Middle Ages
Physiognomy among Medieval Jews
Physiognomy and Chiromancy: From Prediction and Diagnosis to Healing and Human Correction (Zohar 2, 70a–78a; Tiqqunei Zohar, Tiqqun 70)
Prognostics in Medieval Byzantine Fictional Literature
Prognostication in Latin Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
Prognostication in Latin Historiography (ca. 400–1300 CE)
Prognostication in Medieval Jewish Law and Legal Thought
Prognostication in Learned Magic of the Medieval Western Christian World
Prophecy and Prognostication in Visual Art of the Medieval Western Christian World
The Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār/ Secretum secretorum
The Shoulder-Bone as a Mantic Object
Sortes
Three Images of Celestial Phenomena in Sixteenth-Century German Illustrated Broadsheets
Tractates on the Division of the Sciences in the Medieval Western Christian World
Treatises for Predicting hora mortis in the Medieval Eastern Christian World
Zījes
Index