{"product_id":"culture-and-cosmos-vol-18-number-2-paperback","title":"Culture and Cosmos: Vol 18 number 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Campion\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis issue of \u003cem\u003eCulture and Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e includes seven significant papers on the history of astrology, covering a range of periods and approaches. Roger Beck's 'The Ancient Mithraeum as a Model Universe. Part 2', touches on archaeoastronomy and classical religion  1]. Helena Avelar and Charles Burnett's analysis of a twelfth century horoscope cast by Abraham the Jew examines the technical practice of medieval astrology. Lindsay Starkey's paper on Mellin de Saint-Gelais and John Calvin, and Scott Hendrix's on Galileo, concern theoretical contexts for the European astrology of the middle ages and Renaissance. Richard Angelo Bergen's '\u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e and the Descent of Urania: from Astrology to Allegory' deals with literature, Hakan Kirkoğlu's '\u003cem\u003eIlm-i nudjum\u003c\/em\u003e and 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century Ottoman Court Politics' examines the political uses of astrology, and Graham Douglas's 'Trystes Cosmologiques: When L vi-Strauss Met the Astrologers' explores one of the twentieth century's most important anthropologist's attitudes to astrology  2]. Anything L vi-Strauss said about astrology is of interest by definition, in view of his authorship of a remarkable series of seminal works (\u003cem\u003eThe Elementary Structures of Kinship\u003c\/em\u003e (1949), \u003cem\u003eTristes tropiques\u003c\/em\u003e (1955), \u003cem\u003eStructural Anthropology\u003c\/em\u003e (1961), \u003cem\u003eMythologiques\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), \u003cem\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), and \u003cem\u003eThe Savage Mind\u003c\/em\u003e (1966). L vi-Strauss, coming last chronologically in this journal, also has the last word. In response to a question about the surrealist Andr  Breton, L vi-Strauss replied: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI knew Andr  Br ton well - we were very close for a period of time; but I won't go as far as him. I wouldn't say that it holds  secrets] - but it is perhaps one of the signs that secrets exist which we don't understand, and I feel impelled to say, that we will doubtless never understand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is precisely this lack of understanding which motivates historians: with just a little more evidence, we hope, perhaps we will understand the world a little better. And perhaps, then, the papers in this issue will take us a little closer to understanding astrology's appeal, claims, role, nature, function, ideology, world-view and cultural significance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dr Nicholas Campion, \u003cbr\u003e University of Wales Trinity Saint David\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 1] Part 1 was published as Roger Beck, 'The Ancient Mithraeum as a Model Universe. Part 1', in \u003cem\u003eHeavenly Discourses, \u003c\/em\u003eed. Nicholas Campion (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2016), pp. 21-31.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 2] For comparison see Nicholas Campion, 'Surrealist Cosmology: Andr  Breton and Astrology'\u003cem\u003e, Culture and Cosmos \u003c\/em\u003e6, no. 2 (Autumn\/Winter 2002): pp. 45-56.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52474580468019,"sku":"9781907767722","price":35.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dEs0aWlFMFpsb3V3Vk51L212a3pMZz09.webp?v=1759528736","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/culture-and-cosmos-vol-18-number-2-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}