a) Towards a Deeper Understanding of Mantic Practices
Meteorology for a Troubled Age: The 'Weathermen' of Jiangnan and the Global Co-Emergence of an Early Modern Culture of Science-Making
Qiong Zhang
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Pondering the Relationship between Magic and Divination in Occidental History: A Historical and Typological Study Based on the Leipzig Cod. Mag. Collection
Bernd-Christian Otto
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Is prevention better than cure? The place of hemerology within Mesopotamian medicine
Vérène Chalendar
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The Spread and Social Significance of Scapulimancy in Early China during the Western Zhou period (ca. mid-11th-early 8th cc. BCE)
Maria Khayutina
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Trends and Cycles of Time
Christof Niederwieser
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Divination by the Canon of Change and Varied Prognoses on Monstrous Transformations in Medieval China
Hao Chen
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Prophecy and Typology in Early Jesuit Writings on China: Antonio Possevino (1533-1611) and Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607)
Daniel Canaris
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The Ethological Theodicy of Locust Infestation in Early Modern China
David A. Bello
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Time, Diction, Human Agency: the Mantic Foundations of Philological Practice
Jan Vihan
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Mining and Deep Drilling in Chinese and European History: An Interface between Prognostication, Fate and Knowledge
Hans Ulrich Vogel
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Anticipating Future In Medieval Thought: Geomancy Among Jews
Josefina Rodriguez Arribas
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The divinatory manual Yizhangjing 一掌經
Stephanie Homola
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Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
Stephanie Homola
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Physiognomy of Children in the Medical Literature from Jin to Song China (265-1279)
Chia-Feng Chang
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Zukunftstechnologie des 16. Jahrhunderts. Geomantie als herrschaftliche Entscheidungstechnik gegen die Ungewissheit
Ulrike Ludwig
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Medieval Manuscripts on Divination and Prognostication: Prognostica medica attribuita a Michele Scoto. Volgarizzamenti italiani del "De urinis" e del "De diebus lune"; Textes médiévaux de spatulimancie. Chiromancies Anglo-Normandes.
Stefano Rapisarda
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Medical Prognostication in Texts Attributed to Michael Scot: Medieval Italian Versions of De urinis and De diebus lune
Stefano Rapisarda
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Critical Edition and Translation of the "The Leaking Essence of Heaven" (Di Tian Sui滴天髓 ), a Central Classic Work on Birth Horoscope Theorization.
Manfred Kubny
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Critical Edition and Translation of Selected Biographies Found in the "Registers about Fate" (Ming Pu 命譜), Written by Yuan Shushan 袁樹珊 (1881-1952(?))
Manfred Kubny / Michael Lackner
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Who is suited for ruling? Strategies for the legitimation of dynasties, coping with the past and securing the future in Southern Italy under the rule of the House of Hohenstaufen
Cristina Andenna
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b) Dream Divination, Daybooks, and Manuscript Culture
Dreaming in Chinese: Explanation, Exorcism, and Divination in the Late Ming.
Brigid Vance
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Popular Culture and Books of Fate in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts (rishu 日書) of the Warring States, Qin, and Han periods
Donald Harper, Mark Kalinwoski (editors); Michael Lüdke (Project coordinator)
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Oneiromancy and Dream Theories; Fangshu ("Recipes and Techniques") Related Knowledge and Household Encyclopedias in Yuan and Ming Dynasty China.
Dimitri Drettas
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The Transmission of Dream Divination in Medieval Western Manuscripts, and Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Printed Books.
Lázló Sándor Chardonnens
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Daniel and the Duke of Zhou - Dream Prognostics Books in the Chinese and European Middle Ages
Drettas/Chardonnens
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c) Astrology
Who Wants to Live Forever? Astrological Methods for Determining Lifespan in Western Culture
Helena Avelar de Carvalho
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The Sinification of Western Astrology from the Aspect of the Taoist Canon
Wen Zhao
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Long-Export Astrological Prognostication in China
David Pankenier
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The Evolution of Chinese Horoscopy from the Tang to the Ming
Jeffrey Kotyk
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Development and Indigenization: Islamic and European Horoscopic Astrology in Ming and Qing China
Haohao Zhu
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Edition of Select Ancient Astrological Texts and Studies on Conjunctionist Astrology in the Renaissance
Stephan Heilen
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Astrological Interpretation of Comets and Fate under the Impact of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China
Lingfeng Lu
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Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge ca. 1250-1500: Completing Volume I of My Monograph
Darrel Rutkin
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The rationalization of discourse on divination in Early Modern Japan (17th-18th century): Nishikawa Joken and Baba Nobutake.
Matthias Hayek
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The sultan and the stars - The 'Kitab al-Tabsira fi ilm al-nujum' of al-Ashraf Umar (Yemen, d. 1296)
Petra Schmidl
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Medieval Latin Translations of Works on Astronomy and Astrology, Early Medieval Latin Astrological Prognostica.
David Juste
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'Medieval Latin Translations of Works on Astronomy and Astrology' and 'The Astrological Library of John of Gmunden', 'The Place of the Divinatory Sciences in Arabic and Latin Divisions of Knowledge' and 'Astrologers and their Clients'.
Charles Burnett
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Astrological Advisory at European Courts in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (15th-16th century)
Wiebke Deimann
Astrology and Politics – The Case of Kepler and the Emperors Rudolph II, Matthias and Ferdinand II (PhD- Project)
Katrin Bauer
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d) Book of Changes (Yijing)
Cooperation with the Zhouyi-Center, Shandong University
Exchange with Richard Smith
The Hermeneutics of the Book of Changes
Dr. Keyang Dou
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The Transmission and Transition of Yi-Learning in Song Literati's Notes and their Influences on Divination (11th and 12th Century)
Yingna Tao
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Divination as Moral Philosophy: Hexagrams and the Genealogy of the Sages of the Yijing
Tze-ki Hon
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Image, Numerology, Meaning-pattern and Prognostication in the Book of Changes
Prof. Dr. Zhang Wenzhi
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e) Early Chinese Divination
Portents as Part of the Spiritual Landscape of the Shanhai jing (Itineraries of Mountains and Seas, compiled about the 1st century BC)
Dr. Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
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Early Chinese Divination Texts and Bronze Inscriptions
Michael Puett / Lothar von Falkenhausen / Ken'ichi Takashima/ Marco Caboara/ David Sehnal
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Oracle Bone inscriptions from the Bingbian collection
Marco Caboara/David Sehnal
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