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Introduction. Signs of the Future (Herbers and Lehner)
Part 1. Signs and Dreams
1. Dreams, Visions, and Politics in Carolingian Europe (Herbers)
2. Dum illum utero gestaret …: The Premonitory Dreams of Saints' Mothers in Latin Hagiography (Henriet)
3. Sepe verum somniant, qui presunt populis: The Dubious Veracity of Dreams (Schirrmeister)
Part 2. Signs and Nature
4. The Emblematic Birth of a Monster in the High Middle Ages (Lehner)
5. Strange Events and Shaky Ground: On Earthquakes, Matthew Paris and 'Solid Facts' (Kamenzin)
6. Between Astrological Divination, Local Knowledge and Political Intentions: Prognostics and "Epignostics" Related to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages (Rohr)
Part 3. Practices and Experts
7. Analogy at Work in Western Medieval Divination (Rapisarda)
8. Hohe Prälaten der römischen Kurie beim Wahrsager (XIII. Jahrhundert) (Bagliani)
9. Signs from the Afterlife: Consulting the Dead about the Future in Medieval Times (Heiduk)
10. Alternative Losentscheidungsverfahren oder imitationes sortium in Byzanz (Grünbart)
11. Al-Ashraf ˁUmar's Tabṣira: Chapter xxxiv. Rainbows, Shooting Stars, and Haloes as Signs of the Future (Schmidl)
Index.
Contents
Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Introduction. Signs of the Future (Herbers and Lehner)
Part 1. Signs and Dreams
1. Dreams, Visions, and Politics in Carolingian Europe (Herbers)
2. Dum illum utero gestaret …: The Premonitory Dreams of Saints' Mothers in Latin Hagiography (Henriet)
3. Sepe verum somniant, qui presunt populis: The Dubious Veracity of Dreams (Schirrmeister)
Part 2. Signs and Nature
4. The Emblematic Birth of a Monster in the High Middle Ages (Lehner)
5. Strange Events and Shaky Ground: On Earthquakes, Matthew Paris and 'Solid Facts' (Kamenzin)
6. Between Astrological Divination, Local Knowledge and Political Intentions: Prognostics and "Epignostics" Related to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages (Rohr)
Part 3. Practices and Experts
7. Analogy at Work in Western Medieval Divination (Rapisarda)
8. Hohe Prälaten der römischen Kurie beim Wahrsager (XIII. Jahrhundert) (Bagliani)
9. Signs from the Afterlife: Consulting the Dead about the Future in Medieval Times (Heiduk)
10. Alternative Losentscheidungsverfahren oder imitationes sortium in Byzanz (Grünbart)
11. Al-Ashraf ˁUmar's Tabṣira: Chapter xxxiv. Rainbows, Shooting Stars, and Haloes as Signs of the Future (Schmidl)
Index.