Pastoral Care and Prognostics in the Carolingian Period. The Case of El Escorial, Real Biblioteca di San Lorenzo, ms L III 8
A.C. van Rhijn
This article tries to answer the question of what prognostic texts, often interpreted as ‘superstitious’ or even ‘pagan’, might be doing in a pastoral compendium Carolingian period. Rather than following classical interpretation prognostics texts that belonged outside Christendom, it argues that, contrary, such fit very well context early medieval care and trustworthy Christian knowledge. What counted here was not their pre-Christian origins, but fact they were anchored highly respected tradition computus, science time-reckoning. There was, therefore, no inherent problem minds use for purposes. This, turn, sheds new light on position priest who dispensed communities laymen : given prognostics, expertise had extend areas are beyond our modern understanding religion.
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