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Nostradamus : how an obscure Renaissance astrologer became the modern prophet of doom / Stephane Gerson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312613686 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0312613687 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xix, 347 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-332) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A good friend in Renaissance Europe -- The power of words -- Unfathomable afflictions -- Fame and infamy -- The Nostradamian underworld -- Wonder and politics at the Court of France -- Amazing bones: a revolutionary desecration -- A world of one's own -- We are not Nostradadamites! -- Fin de Sic̈le madness -- Nostradamus is Adolf Hitler -- Apocalypse now? -- Times for Nostradamus. |
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| Subject: | Nostradamus, 1503-1566. Nostradamus, 1503-1566. Prophéties. English & French Twentieth century > Forecasts. Prophecies (Occultism) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Nostradamus : How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom
STÃ%PHANE GERSON is a cultural historian of modern France and the editor of a new edition of Nostradamus's Prophecies for Penguin Classics. He has won several awards, including the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. He has also contributed to Publishers Weekly and the Jewish Daily Forward . Gerson teaches French history at New York University and lives in Manhattan and Woodstock, NY, with his family.
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