Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘A Certain Foretelling of Future Things’: Divination and Onomancy, Definitions and Types
- 2 Platonic Relationships: Onomancy’s Intellectual and Visual Context
- 3 Lost in Translation: Greek Beginnings and Latin Corruptions, c. 400–c. 112
- 4 Body of Evidence: the Manuscript Corpus
- 5 Anathema Sit: Condemnation and Punishment
- 6 Certain Death? Onomancy and the Physician
- 7 Trial and Error: Onomancy and the Nobility
- 8 A Numbers Game: Onomancy at the University
- 9 Morbid Curiosity: Onomancy in the Monastery
- 10 Reformations: Onomancy c. 1500–c. 1700
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Transcriptions and Editions of ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ Texts
- Appendix II List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘A Certain Foretelling of Future Things’: Divination and Onomancy, Definitions and Types
- 2 Platonic Relationships: Onomancy’s Intellectual and Visual Context
- 3 Lost in Translation: Greek Beginnings and Latin Corruptions, c. 400–c. 112
- 4 Body of Evidence: the Manuscript Corpus
- 5 Anathema Sit: Condemnation and Punishment
- 6 Certain Death? Onomancy and the Physician
- 7 Trial and Error: Onomancy and the Nobility
- 8 A Numbers Game: Onomancy at the University
- 9 Morbid Curiosity: Onomancy in the Monastery
- 10 Reformations: Onomancy c. 1500–c. 1700
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Transcriptions and Editions of ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ Texts
- Appendix II List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
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- Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval BritainQuestioning Life, Predicting Death, pp. 239 - 258Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024