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<p>One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for forgetting that Michel de Nostredame, 1503-1566, was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance. <br /><br />In this bold new account of the life and work of Nostradamus, Denis Crouzet shows that any attempt to interpret his <i>Prophecies</i> at face value is misguided. Nostradamus was not trying to predict the future. He saw himself, rather, as 'prophesying', i.e. bringing the Word of God to humankind. Like Rabelais, for whom laughter was a therapy to help one cope with the misery of the times, Nostradamus thought of himself as a physician of the soul as much as of the body. His unveiling of the menacing and horrendous events which await us in the future was a way of frightening his readers into the realisation that inner hatred was truly the greatest peril of all, to which the sole remedy was to live in the love and peace of Christ. <br /><br />This inspired interpretation penetrates the imagina

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Author

Denis Crouzet [Crouzet, Denis]

Publisher

Polity Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509507696

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography