1st Edition

The Star-Crossed Renaissance The Quarrel about Astrology and Its Influence in England

By Don Cameron Allen Copyright 1941
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology? This book provides a comprehensive and thoroughly-researched answer.

1. Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Pontano and the Astrologers’ Doctrine  2. Some Continental Attitudes  3. Attack and Defence in Renaissance England  4. Some Aspects of the Dispute about Astrology among Elizabethan and Jacobean Men of Letters  5. Elizabethan and Jacobean Satires on the Almanack and Prognostication

Biography

Don Cameron Allen