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THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN BYZANTIUM
Magdalino, Paul, & Mavroudi, Maria (ed.) (2007).
Geneva, CH, Editions La pomme d'or S.A.
The volume presents 11 papers delivered at a colloquim "The Occult
Sciences in Byzantium" at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection at Washington, D.C., held in 2003.
Content:
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
Scholar, Alchemist and Astrologer.
Michèle Mertens, Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Byzantium.
David Pingree (1933-2005), 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.
More information at: http://www.pommedor.ch
Rossitsa Gicheva,
New Bulgarian University
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