Foreword

Introduction: Astrologers’ Theory of History

Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History

Celestial Influence - the Major Premiss of Astrology

Luther und die Astrologie

Melanchthon’s Astrology

Georg Spalatin and the Astrologers

The Battle of the Booklets: Prognostic Tradition and Proclamation of the Word in early sixteenth-century Germany

The Flugschriften and their Importance in Religious Debate: A Quantitative Approach

Popular Astrology and Prophecy in the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries: Johannes Lichtenberger

Johann Virdung von Hassfurt, sein Leben und seine astrologischen Flugschriften

D’après Pigghe, Nifo et Lucien: le rhétoriqueur Jean Thénaud et le déluge à la cour de France

Many ends for the world. Luca Gaurico Instigator of the Debate in Italy and in Germany

From the watery Trigon to the fiery Trigon: Celestial Signs, Prophecies and History

Index of Names

Index of Mss. and rare books

Contributors