{"product_id":"the-starry-rubric-alexander-cummins-9781907881213","title":"The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-Century English Astrology and Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeventeenth-century England was a turbulent place to live. It was a century of civil wars, regicide, food riots and plague - a time of millenarian prophets and threatening witches, of radical sects and experiments in Commonwealth. It was also a revolutionary period. The lifting of printing press censorships created a veritable explosion of printed materials: from popular almanacs and calendars to handbooks of do-it yourself medicine, from vulgate Bibles to tomes of new, investigative natural philosophy and grimoires of occult science and ritual magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of all this, the astrologer-magicians of seventeenth-century England drew their charts of the heavens, divining answers and prescribing magical medicines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Starry Rubric\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Cummins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1907881212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781907881213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hadean Press Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Alexander Cummins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43984475881727,"sku":"9781907881213","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a8a79a2-b32b-48a1-a745-19818a3ce2e5.jpg?v=1683272524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-starry-rubric-alexander-cummins-9781907881213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}