Contents:
Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi:
Introduction.
Maria Mavroudi:
Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research.
Katerina Ierodiakonou:
The Byzantine Concept of Sympatheia and its Appropriation in Michael Psellos.
Paul Magdalino:
Occult Sciences and Imperial Power in Byzantine History and Historiography.
Maria Papathanassiou:
Stephanos of Alexandria: a Famous Byzantine Scolar, Alchemist and Astrologer.
Michèle Mertens:
Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Byzantium.
David Pingree:
The Byzantine Translations of Masha’alla’s Works in Interrogational Astrology.
William Adler:
Did the Biblical Patriarch Practice Astrology? Michael Glykas and Manuel Komnenos I on Seth and Abraham.
Anne Tihon:
Astrological Promenade in Byzantium in the Early Palaiologan Period.
Joshua Holo:
Hebrew Astrology in Byzantine Southern Italy.
Charles Burnett:
Late Antique and Medieval Latin Translations of Greek Texts on Astrology and Magic.
George Saliba:
Revisiting the Astronomical Contacts between the World of Islam and Renaissance Europe: the Byzantine Connection.
