{"product_id":"onomantic-divination-in-late-medieval-joanne-edge-9781914049248","title":"Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death","description":"Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their uncertainties about the future, from the serious to the mundane, in a variety of ways. 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. However, despite its ubiquity, it has been relatively little studied. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book analyses the intellectual and physical contexts of onomantic texts in some 65 manuscripts of British provenance between around 1150 and 1500, focusing on its two main varieties It demonstrates that onomancies were copied, owned and used by a people from a wide range of literate society in late medieval England: medical practitioners; the gentry and aristocracy; university scholars; and monks. And it seeks to answer the question of why a divinatory device, condemned in canon law as \"Pythagorean necromancy\", enjoyed such popularity in mainstream books of religion, medicine, and scholasticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanne Edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1914049241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781914049248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e York Medieval Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Joanne Edge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46618025132287,"sku":"9781914049248","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b23043a8-230a-4cf6-896e-9b09e21e4f90.jpg?v=1740068981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/onomantic-divination-in-late-medieval-joanne-edge-9781914049248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}