The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-Century English Astrology and Magic

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The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-Century English Astrology and MagicIn The Starry Rubric, Alexander Cummins shows how astrology and magic offered analysis, interpretation, and solutions locating humanity in a shifting web of interrelation with the stars and, indeed, the cosmos as a whole in the seventeenth century. Through analysis and example, Cummins demonstrates the ways in which astrology and magic were crucial to early modern perspectives on human life, time, and meaning. Seventeenth century England was a

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the third part comprises a set of planetary invocations and blessings

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the largely unknown West Iberian magical current and its various traces and manifestations in the modern Ibero-African-American cults of Brazil

Chapter 7: On Possessions

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Tracking the origins and developments of the concept of intermediary spirits under the terms “daimon/dæmon”

Chapter One: The Northern Tradition