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Nostradamus, Prophecy, Political and Social Commentary.
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NOSTRADAMUS: A Life and Myth
(Biography)
Hardcover: 488 pages
Publisher: Element Books Ltd. (October 25, 2003)
Language: English, ISBN: 0007140517
Every age has seen itself reflected in different interpretations of Nostradamus's prophecies. By the twentieth century, he was used as a propaganda weapon by both sides in two world wars, and as the twenty-first century loomed, he became a lightning rod for millennial anxieties and hopes.
BUT WHO WAS THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH?
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nostradamus, John Hogue traces the life and legacy of the French prophet in fascinating and insightful detail, revealing much little-known and original material never before published in English. Nostradamus: A Life and Myth is the first full-bodied biography of one of the most famous and controversial historical figures of the last millennium. Click here to order in America. Click here to order in the United Kingdom.
Nostradamus Biographical information
NOSTRADAMUS (1503–1566), – his enigmatic prophetic
masterpiece, Les Propheties, has made
him the most famous and controversial
prophet of the last four and a half centuries.
He was born to recently
"Christianized" Jews in the town of St.
Remy, Provence. His father, Jacques, was
a prosperous notary.
His grandfathers first encouraged his mysterious talent for prophecy, both learned men of the Renaissance and former personal physicians to the freest thinking king of the time, Rene the Good of Provence, and his son, the Duke of Calabria. Their pupil showed excellent aptitude for math and the science of astrology.
His paternal grandfather deemed him ready at fourteen to study liberal arts at Avignon, the papal enclave of Provence. There he angered his teachers by openly defending astrology and Copernicus. Nostradamus was then sent to study medicine in the University of Montpellier. He easily got through his baccalaureate examinations in 1525. Once he had a license to practice medicine, he dropped out of Montpellier to practice in the countryside throughout southern France, where he could freely put his medical theories to the test.
Sixteenth-century France suffered from seasonal bouts of "La Charbon," the Black Death. Nostradamus followed the plague's shadow, never leaving a town until the danger had passed. He honed his skills and availed himself of the knowledge and teachers of the Counter– Reformation's mystical underground of alchemists, Jewish Cabalists, and pagans. By 1529 he returned to Montpellier where he received his doctorate degree. He remained a professor of medicine there for the following three years until he left to set up a practice in Toulouse.