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Overview"Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their uncertainties about the future, from the serious to the mundane, in a variety of ways. One of the most commonly surviving prognostic methods in medieval manuscripts is onomancy: the branch of divination that predicts the future from calculations based on the numbers that correlate to the letters of personal names. However, despite its ubiquity, it has been relatively little studied. This book analyses the intellectual and physical contexts of onomantic texts in some 65 manuscripts of British provenance between around 1150 and 1500, focusing on its two main varieties It demonstrates that onomancies were copied, owned and used by a people from a wide range of literate society in late medieval England: medical practitioners; the gentry and aristocracy; university scholars; and monks. And it seeks to answer the question of why a divinatory device, condemned in canon law as ""Pythagorean necromancy"", enjoyed such popularity in mainstream books of religion, medicine, and scholasticism." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanne Edge (Person)Publisher: York Medieval Press Imprint: York Medieval Press Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781914049248ISBN 10: 1914049241 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 05 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJOANNE EDGE is a historian of medieval and early modern Britain. She is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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