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Boydell Press Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain

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One of the most commonly surviving prognostic methods in medieval manuscripts is onomancy: the branch of divination that predicts the future from calculations based on the numbers that correlate to the letters of personal names. This book analyses the intellectual and physical contexts of onomantic texts in some 65 manuscripts of British provenance between around 1150 and 1500. It also considers why a divinatory device condemned in canon law enjoyed such mainstream popularity.

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Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1914049241
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Medieval
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 March 2024
Listed Since: 24 August 2023

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