{"product_id":"the-starry-rubric-seventeenth-century-english-astrology-and-magic","title":"The Starry Rubric: Seventeenth-Century English Astrology and Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor; Alexander Cummins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn THE STARRY RUBRIC, 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hadean Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50825456517359,"sku":null,"price":108.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1140\/7958\/files\/51qaBCuaJbL._SY445_SX342_QL70_ML2.jpg?v=1789746370","url":"https:\/\/www.mysticmoons.ca\/products\/the-starry-rubric-seventeenth-century-english-astrology-and-magic","provider":"Mystic Moons Books \u0026 Brews","version":"1.0","type":"link"}