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"Mittelalterliche Menschen waren in ihrer Abhängigkeit ständig bemüht, den Willen Gottes zu lesen, und suchten so nach Spuren des Heiligen in Naturphänomenen wie in irdischen Begebenheiten. Die Edition versammelt herausragende und besonders einflussreiche Schriften zur Divination und Zukunftsschau und zeigt so die Vielfalt und den Wandel im Denken der Zeitgenossen über die Prognostik. Von Größen der Spätantike wie Tertullian, Hieronymus und Augustinus über Gregor den Großen, Isidor von Sevilla und Hrabanus Maurus und die Philosophen Albertus Magnus und Thomas von Aquin bis zu spätmittelalterlichen Texten von Raimundus Lullus oder De superstitionibus, den Bestseller des 15. Jahrhunderts von Nikolaus Magni von Jauer: Die Quellensammlung zeigt, welche Bedeutung die größten Denker des Mittelalter der Zukunftsschau beimaßen. Sie ist in ihrer bestechenden Zusammenstellung ein absolutes Desiderat."--

Weissagung --- Wahrsagen --- Divination --- Magie --- Rezeption --- Theologie --- Philosophie --- Magic --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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This book thoroughly revisits divination as a central phenomenon in the lives of ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. It collects studies from many periods in Graeco-Roman history, from the Archaic period to the late Roman, and touches on many different areas of this rich topic, including treatments of dice oracles, sortition in both pagan and Christian contexts, the overlap between divination and other interpretive practices in antiquity, the fortunes of independent diviners, the activity of Delphi in ordering relations with the dead, the role of Egyptian cult centers in divinatory practices, and the surreptitious survival of recipes for divination by corpses. It also reflects a ranges of methodologies, drawn from anthropology, history of religions, intellectual history, literary studies, and archaeology, epigraphy, and paleography. It will be of particular interest to scholars and student of ancient Mediterranean religions.

Divination. --- Augury --- Divination --- Waarzeggerij --- Wichelarij --- 133.3 --- Philosophy & psychology Divinatory arts --- Rome --- Greece --- Egypt --- Grèce --- Egypte --- Religion --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Prophezeiung --- Wahrsagen --- Geschichte

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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime.

Politik --- Wahrsagen --- Römisches Reich --- Wahrsagen. --- Divination --- Political culture --- Politik. --- Social change --- History. --- Rome --- Römisches Reich. --- History --- Politics and government --- Culture politique --- Changement social --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culture --- Political science --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Arts and Humanities --- Divination - Rome --- Political culture - Rome - History --- Social change - Rome - History --- Rome - History - Republic, 265-30 B.C --- Rome - Politics and government - 510-30 B.C.

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Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History , volume 3

Angelsaksen. --- Voorspellingen. --- English literature --- Forecasting. --- Prophecies. --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- British literature --- Forecasts --- Futurology --- Prediction --- Predictions --- Imaginary wars and battles --- Engeland. --- Altenglisch. --- Bloodletting --- Embryonic and Fetal Development --- Literatur. --- Littérature anglaise --- Motiv. --- Prophezeiung --- Prophéties. --- Prévision. --- Wahrsagen. --- History. --- Old English. --- 450-1100. --- Mittellatein.

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This volume contains a collection of revised papers given in the workshop Divination im Alten Orient that was convened on July 22, 2008, as part of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Würzburg. The aim of this workshop was to bring together Assyriologists and Hittitologists in order to present and discuss the divination methods of their respective fields, most of which had not been studied until recently. The large audience that attended the workshop confirmed how wide is the interest in this subject.

Divination --- Assyriology --- Assyro-Babylonian studies --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Divination. --- Assyriology. --- Alter Orient --- Middle East. --- Orient --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Wahrsagen --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Middle East --- South West --- Asia --- Vorderasien --- Altorientalistik --- Naher Osten