Astrology After the Fall of Rome

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May 2, 2014

 

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254). (Grant 3) These two Christian philosophers made compromises between astrology and Christianity leading to the eventual acceptance of those forms of astrology which did not impinge on the freedom of the human spirit, such as natural and medical astrology. While there was little literature on astrological topics and virtually no evidence of astrological practice (except perhaps in the case of Alcuin of the 8th century) (Campion 56) in Western Europe at the time, astrology survived at a low ebb in the Byzantine East, where Greek continued to be the main language...
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(Holden 95) While the "high" sciences such as astronomy and mathematics were widely taught (thus those texts have been relatively well preserved), the "low" sciences were seldom officially taught and usually received a lesser degree of professionalism leading to the poor preservation of the already few astrological manuscripts in the Early Middle Ages...
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