One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for forgetting that Michel de Nostredame, 1503-1566, was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance.
In this bold new account of the life and work of Nostradamus, Denis Crouzet shows that any attempt to interpret his Prophecies at face value is misguided. Nostradamus was not trying to predict the future. He saw himself, rather, as 'prophesying', i.e. bringing the Word of God to humankind. Like Rabelais, for whom laughter was a therapy to help one cope with the misery of the times, Nostradamus thought of himself as a physician of the soul as much as of the body. His unveiling of the menacing and horrendous events which await us in the future was a way of frightening his readers into the realisation that inner hatred was truly the greatest peril of all, to which the sole remedy was to live in the love and peace of Christ.
This inspired interpretation penetrates the imaginative world of Nostradamus, a man whose life is as mysterious as his writings. It shows him in a completely new dimension, securing for him a significant place among the major thinkers of the Renaissance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Translator's Preface
- Permissions and Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction: Fragments of History
- 1: The Place Beyond Words
- 2: A Self-Contradictory Utterance
- 3: Treasure Beneath an Oak Tree
- 4: A Would-Be Astrophile
- 5: Thresholds Dependent on Subjectivity
- 6: An Evangelist Cogito
- 7: ‘For the Common Profit of Mankind’
- 8: ‘A Burning Mirror’
- 9: Divine Light
- 10: From the All to the One
- 11: The Word of Creation
- 12: An Episteme of Reason
- 13: Sacredness and Nothingness
- 14: The Energetics of Obscurity
- 15: Powers of Evil
- 16: Man Against Man
- 17: All the Sins of the World
- 18: The Horror that Invites Horror
- 19: Faith: Trials and Tribulations
- 20: From Alpha to Omega
- 21: The Philology of Angst
- 22: The Panic Paradox
- 23: The Eschatology of the Rainbow
- 24: The Ontological Turn
- 25: Liberty in Christ
- By Way of Conclusion: Why Nostradamus?
- Chronology
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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