Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Astrologers’ Theory of History -- Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History -- Celestial influence - the major premiss of astrology -- Luther und die Astrologie -- Melanchthon’s Astrology -- Georg Spalatiti and the Astrologers -- The Battle of the Booklets: Prognostic Tradition and Proclamation of the Word in early sixteenth-century Germany -- The Flugschriften and their Importance in Religious Debate: A Quantitative Approach -- Popular Astrology and Prophecy in the fifteenth and sixteenth Centuries: Johannes Lichtenberger -- Johann Virdung von Haßfurt, sein Leben und seine astrologischen Flugschriften -- D'après Pigghe, Nifo et Lucien: le rhétoriqueur Jean Thénaud et le déluge à la cour de France -- Many ends for the world Luca Gaurico Instigator of the Debate in Italy and in Germany -- From the watery Trigon to the fiery Trigon: Celestial Signs, Prophecies and History -- Index of Names -- Index of Manuscripts and Rare Books -- Contributors -- Backmatter
