Fiery Shapes Celestial Portents and Astrology

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Mark Williams studied Classics and English at Oxford before completing graduate work in Celtic Studies. He is a currently a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he teaches medieval Irish, Welsh, and English Literature.

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Preface: literature, portents, and astrology
1. Celestial portents and apocalypticism in medieval Ireland
2. Druids, cloud-divination, and the portents of Antichrist
3. Taliesin and Geoffrey of Monmouth's astrological portents
4. Comets, portents, and astrology in late medieval Wales
5. Morgan Llwyd and the spiritualization of astrology
Afterword
Bibliography
Glossary of Celtic and astrological terms
General Index

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Fiery Shapes Celestial Portents and Astrology in Ireland and Wales 650-1650

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