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The dawn of astrology : a cultural history of Western astrology

Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Spanning the period between the collapse of classical astrology in the fifth century and the rise of popular astrology on the web in the twentieth, Campion challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Concluding with a discussion of astrology's popularity and appeal in the twenty-first century, Campion asks whether it should be seen as an integral part of modernity or as an element of the post-modern world
Print Book, English, 2008-
Continuum, London, 2008-
History
volumes <1> : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9781847252142, 9781441127372, 9781847252241, 9781441181299, 1847252141, 1441127372, 1847252249, 1441181296
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v. 1. The ancient and classical worlds
v. 2. The medieval and modern worlds. Distant echoes : origins of astrology
Prehistory : myths and megaliths
The Mesopotamian cosmos : the marriage of heaven and earth
Mesopotamian astrology : the writing of heaven
The Assyrians and Persians : revolution and reformation
Egypt : the kingdom of the sun
Egypt : the stars and the soul
The Hebrews : prophets and planets
Greece : Homer, Hesiod and the heavens
Greece : the Platonic revolution
The Hellenistic world: the zodiac
The Hellenistic world : skepticism and salvation
Hellenistic astrology : signs and influences
Rome : the state, the stars and subversion
Christianity : a star out of Jacob
Rome : the imperial heaven
Christianity : the triumph of the sun
Afterword : decline and survival