A Kingdom of Stargazers: Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Traveling South 1 Part I. Positioning the Stars, Divining the Future 1. Prophecy, Knowledge, and Authority: Divining the Future and Expecting the End of Days 21 2. For Youths and Simpletons: The Folly of Elite Astrology 55 3. The Iberian Peninsula: Land of Astral Magic 80 Part II. A Kingdom of Stargazers 4. Kings and Their Heavens: The Ceremonious and the Negligent 105 5. To Condemn a King: The Inquisitor and the Notary 124 6. A Return to Orthodoxy: The Ascension of Martí I and the End of an Era 154 viii Contents Epilogue: An Unfortunate Claimant: Jaume el Dissortat, the Rise of the Trastámaras, and beyond the Closing of the Ecumene 172 Bibliography 183 Index 205 ...