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It was Federico Chabod who recognized in Jean Bodin's theory of climate the merging, in the middle of the sixteenth century, of the «scattered seeds» of an essentially naturalistic idea of nation, still far from the modern conception of the nation as «a spiritual fact». Bodin (1529-1596) was one of the greatest exponents of French legal humanism. Reworking and updateing in his major works (Methodus, 1566; République, 1576-1586; Universae naturae theatrum, 1596) a long dating back theme, Bodin presented the characters of nations as dependent on climatic situations: the cold north with the torpid ingenuity of the inhabitants, the hot south with subtle ingenuity, and the middle zone of temperate nations. That theory, which soon became a stereotype until its reworking in Montesquieu's Esprit des lois, actually played a more decisive role in the genesis of the modern concept of nation, made visible for the first time, albeit in a symbolic and imaginary way.

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Die im spätantiken Persien erfundene Konjunktionsastrologie untersucht nicht individuelle Geburtshoroskope, sondern seltene Planetenkonjunktionen, aus denen sie große historische Ereignisse, insbesondere die Schicksale von Königreichen und Religionen, voraussagt. Durch arabische Schriften wurde diese Lehre dem Abendland vermittelt und entfaltete dort vom 13. bis 17. Jahrhundert eine enorme Wirkung. Diese wurde bisher kaum erforscht; wissenschaftliche Editionen und Kommentare zu frühneuzeitlichen Konjunktionsprognosen fehlen bisher völlig. Diesem Missstand soll eine auf drei Bände konzipierte Studie abhelfen, die sich exemplarisch auf die zahlreichen Prognosen anlässlich der Saturn-Jupiter-Konjunktionen von 1484 und 1504 konzentriert. Der hier vorgelegte erste Band bietet eine Einführung in das Gesamtwerk und erschließt danach den frühesten relevanten Text, den Johannes von Lübeck 1474 in Padua verfasste, unter philologischen, astronomischen, astrologischen, theologischen, dämonologischen und kulturgeschichtlichen Gesichtspunkten. Dieser Text macht detaillierte Voraussagen dazu, wann und wie die nach zeitgenössischer Überzeugung nicht mehr ferne letzte Weltreligion, die Schreckensherrschaft des Antichristen, kommen werde. Es handelt sich in mehrfacher Hinsicht um einen der wichtigsten Texte des untersuchten Zeitraums. Eine Analyse seiner Rezeption durch frühneuzeitliche Leser in verschiedenen sozialen Milieus und in verschiedenen Teilen Europas rundet den ersten Band ab.

Bible and astrology. --- Predictive astrology --- Science and astrology. --- History. --- Johannes,

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The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān – it casts light on the historical development of the Tājika school by extensive quotations from earlier works spanning five centuries. With this first-ever scholarly edition and translation of a Tājika text, Martin Gansten makes a significant contribution not only to the study of an important but little known knowledge tradition, but also to the intellectual historiography of Asia and the transmission of horoscopic astrology in the medieval and early modern periods.

Intellectuals --- Historiography. --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Fortune-telling & divination --- Hindu astrology. --- Hindu astronomy.

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"The Prison of Fire for Demons by Florian C. Reiter presents a study of Taoist exorcist devices that in Heavenly Masters Taoism in the past and even today are dispensable for exorcist rituals. It focusses on exorcism that mainly was performed for the individual client. Sometimes large-scale liturgies were required, but often less-demanding ritual efforts sufficed. The study relies on the collections A Corpus of Taoist Rituals and Pearls Inherited from the Sea of Rituals in the Ming Taoist Canon. Reiter presents an exorcist tradition of Thunder Magic Rituals from Hunan-province and another one from Sichuan province. The leading Thunder divinity in the latter tradition is Marshal T´ien-p´eng who is associated with the God-Emperor of the North and has a background in Shang-ch´ing Taoism. Reiter selects exorcist devices such as the Prison of Fire for Demons and various other types of demon-prisons. He also discusses the abundant amulets and seals for exorcist rituals, and presents the Divine Stick of T´ien-p´eng which is a small wooden ritual tool that today is still in use. The practice of submitting formal applications to the spirit Thunder administration to get the divine approval and backing for any specific exorcism is introduced as well. Reiter displays the historic frame for applying the exorcist devices and defines these practices as constituent elements of Heavenly Masters Taoism. All those methods and devices serve the salvation of individual clients and support society as a whole."--

S13A/0401 --- S13A/0403 --- S13A/0450 --- China: Religion--Popular religion: Taoism --- China: Religion--Rites, magic, festivals --- China: Religion--Astrology, fortune-telling, physiognomy, occultism, numerology, divination --- Exorcism. --- Taoism --- Rituals.

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This is the first commentary in any language on three of the books of ancient Greek astrological poetry ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho. Manetho, who became a figure for recondite wisdom, came to be credited with a series of didactic poems which list outcomes for planetary set-ups in a horoscope or birth chart. This book contends that we can learn a great deal from this material about the intellectual, cultural, social, and literary history of the world in which it was written—Hadrianic Egypt, and the second-century Roman Empire at large. Its descriptions of the kinds of person who are born under happy and unhappy configurations of stars speak to the lived realities, aspirations, and fears of the astrologer's clientele. Given astrology's enormous contemporary prestige, this means we are offered insights into the mental universe and values of the common man, l'homme moyen sensuel, that élite literature largely bypasses.The volume addresses current work on the emotions and popular ethics. It also brings to the fore a neglected witness to a type of imperial didactic poetry—functional, technical in content, and yet sharing a degree of artistrywith better-known poets such as Dionysius the Periegete. The Manethonian poems are placed in the context of other ancient astrological literature—much of it very different in idiom, complexity, and method—but also in the wider one of other divinatory texts, philosophical writing, and the novel. There is a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works.

Astrology --- Pseudo-Manethonis Apotelesmatica --- Ps.-Manethonis Apotelesmatica --- Apotelesmatica of Manetho --- Astrology. --- Μανέθωνος Ἀποτελεσματικῶν βιβλία --- Manethōnos Apotelesmatikōn biblia --- Ἀποτελεσματικῶν βιβλία --- Apotelesmatikōn biblia --- Pseudo-Manethonis Apotelesmatica. --- Manetho. Apotelesmatica. --- Astronomie antique --- Astrologie antique --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Poésie. --- Apotelesmatiques.