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the occult
sciences in byzantium
This
volume represents the first attempt to examine occult sciences
as a distinct category of Byzantine intellectual culture. It is
concerned with both the reality and the image of the occult
sciences in Byzantium, and seeks, above all, to represent them
in their social and cultural context as a historical phenomenon.
The eleven essays demonstrate that Byzantium was not marginal to
the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, and that the occult
sciences were not marginal to the learned culture of the
medieval Byzantine world.
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Contents:
Paul
Magdalino,
Maria Mavroudi,
Introduction.
Maria
Mavroudi,
Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium:
Considerations for Future Research.
Katerina Ierodiakonou,
The Byzantine Concept of Sympatheia and its Appropriation in Michael Psellos.
Paul
Magdalino, Occult
Sciences and Imperial Power in Byzantine History and Historiography.
Maria Papathanassiou,
Stephanos of Alexandria: a Famous Byzantine Scolar, Alchemist and Astrologer.
Michèle Mertens,
Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Byzantium.
David
Pingree, The
Byzantine Translations of Masha’alla’s Works in Interrogational Astrology.
William Adler, Did
the Biblical Patriarch Practice Astrology? Michael Glykas and Manuel
Komnenos I on Seth and Abraham.
Anne Tihon,
Astrological Promenade in Byzantium in the Early Palaiologan Period.
Joshua Holo, Hebrew
Astrology in Byzantine Southern Italy.
Charles Burnett,
Late Antique and Medieval Latin Translations of Greek Texts on Astrology and
Magic.
George
Saliba,
Revisiting the Astronomical Contacts between the
World of Islam and Renaissance Europe: the Byzantine Connection.
Available now!
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