1st Edition
Jeremias Drexel's 'Christian Zodiac' Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation. A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes
By Nicholas J. Crowe
Copyright 2013
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to Catholicism in his youth, Drexel (1581-1638) was well placed to publish a book that appealed to Protestants as well as Catholics, his 'Zodiac' appearing in multiple reprints, re-editions and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Select Bibliography; Chapter 3 A Note on the Text; part A Christian Zodiac; Chapter 4 The First Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 5 The Second Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 6 The Third Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 7 The Fourth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 8 Fifth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 9 Sixth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 10 Seventh Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 11 Eighth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 12 Ninth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 13 Tenth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 14 Eleventh Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 15 Twelfth Sign of Predestination:; Chapter 16 Crown;
Biography
Nicholas J. Crowe M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge) teaches at the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies in Oxford. For twenty years he has taught and researched a wide range of literary and philosophical topics at Oxford, exploring the intellectual history and culture of Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
'Nicholas Crowe has provided us with a splendid edition of a remarkable figure.' Seventeenth-Century News
