Index

• • Abravanel, Judah Leon see Leo the Hebrew
  • Adam
  • • as first astrologer
    • sin of
    • see also Fall, the; original sin
• • Adamite language
  • Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius
  • • celestial magic
    • Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences
• • Aix-en-Provence, plague
  • Alciato, Andrea
  • • Emblematum Libellus
• • Alcibiades
  • Alexander the Great
  • allegory
  • • over-allegorization
• • Almanac for the year 1554
  • Almanac for the year 1555
  • Almanac for the year 1557
  • Almanac for the year 1561
  • Almanac for the year 1562
  • Almanac for the year 1563
  • Almanac for the year 1566
  • almanacs
  • Anabaptist crisis of Münster
  • anachronism
  • ancient Egyptians
  • Aneau, Barthélémy
  • angst
  • • see also panic
• • anima mundi
  • animal symbols
  • Antichrist
  • Antoine, King of Navarre
  • Antony, Marc
  • aphorisms
  • Apian, Petrus
  • Apocalypse, the
  • • Book of Revelation
    • Columbus and
    • comet presaging
    • Second Coming of Christ
    • Vogelin on
    • see also End-Time; Last Judgement
• • Apollo
  • appearance
  • • make-up
    • muscat soap
• • d'Aquino, Beatrice d'Avalos
  • Aristotle
  • arts, the
  • astrology
  • • attacks on
    • evil and
    • judicial astrology
    • triplicity
• • athletes
  • Augustine, St
  • • Enarrationes in psalmos
• • Augustus see Octavius, Gaius
  • Avenara, Abraham

• • Balmas, Enea
  • banquets
  • Barbaro, Ermolao
  • Barthes, Roland
  • Bayard, Pierre Terrail de
  • Béhar, Pierre
  • Bellenger, Yvonne
  • Bérard, François
  • Bernard, St
  • bestiary see animal symbols
  • Bèze, Théodore de
  • Bible
  • • Acts
    • 1 Chronicles
    • 2 Chronicles
    • Colossians
    • 1 Corinthians
    • 2 Corinthians
    • Daniel
    • Deuteronomy
    • Ecclesiastes
    • Ezekiel
    • Ezra
    • Garden of Eden
    • Genesis
    • Gospels
    • Habakkuk
    • Hebrews
    • Isaiah
    • Jeremiah
    • Job
    • Joel
    • King Saul
    • King Solomon
    • Last Judgement
    • Noah's Ark
    • parables
    • 1 Peter
    • Proverbs
    • Psalms see Psalms
    • Revelation
    • Romans
    • St John's Gospel
    • St Luke's Gospel
    • St Mark's Gospel
    • St Matthew's Gospel
    • 1 Samuel
    • Tower of Babel
• • Bierlaire, Franz
  • Billacois, François
  • Bloch, Marc
  • Blum, Claude
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, On Famous Women
  • Bocchi, Achille
  • Bonhomme, Macé
  • Book of Miracles
  • Book of Various Grease-Paints
  • Bosch, Hieronymus
  • Branchus
  • Braudel, Fernand
  • bread
  • Briçonnet, Guillaume
  • Brind'Amour, Pierre
  • Brunsfels, Otto
  • Brutus
  • bubonic plague
  • Budé, Guillaume
  • • De asse
    • On the Study of Letters
• • burning mirror
  • • see also mirror
• • Byzantium

• • Calvin, Jean
  • • conversion of
    • theocentrism
• • Calvinists
  • • iconoclasm
• • candied lemon
  • Cardano, Girolamo
  • Carlstedt, Anna
  • case-histories
  • Cassian, Saint John
  • Castoriadis, Cornelius
  • Cathay
  • Catherine de Médicis
  • • Saint Bartholomew massacre
• • Catholic Church
  • • Great Schism
    • schism
• • Catholic League
  • Catholic violence
  • Céard, Jean
  • century, use of
  • Champier, Symphorien
  • charlatanism
  • Charles de Bourbon, Constable
  • Charles V, Emperor
  • Charles IX, King of France
  • Chastel, André
  • Chatelain, Jean-Marc
  • Chaunu, Pierre
  • Chavigny, Jean-Aimé de
  • • First Face of Janus
• • Chevignard, Bernard
  • chivalry
  • Christ
  • • Erasmus on
    • as godly fool
    • liberty in
    • as the mystery of God
    • philosophy of
    • Redemption
    • resurrection
    • Second Coming
    • star symbol
    • Thursday worship
    • see also God; Word of God/Logos
• • Christian liberty
  • Christopher Columbus: Herald of and Apocalypse
  • Chyren
  • Cicero, Paradoxes of the Stoics
  • civil war
  • • Coligny assassination and
    • comet and
    • Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis and
    • republican Rome
    • see also war
• • clairvoyance
  • Cloulas, Ivan
  • cogito
  • • of Christian believers
    • evangelist cogito
    • of Nostradamus
    • of silence
• • Coligny, Gaspard de
  • Colloquy of Poissy
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • comets
  • commonplaces
  • Conspiracy of Amboise
  • Constantine
  • conversion
  • • of Calvin
    • Columbus and
    • desire and
    • end of the world and
    • as liberation
    • persecution and
    • personal metamorphosis
    • silence and
    • violence and
• • Cortesi, Paolo
  • Cottrell, Robert D.
  • Couillard, Antoine
  • Cousteau/Coustau, Pierre
  • creation, literary
  • Creation
  • • antinomic order
    • reason and
    • unity of
• • Crespin Nostradamus, Antoine
  • Crinitus, Petrus
  • Crouzet, François
  • Crouzet-Pavan, Elisabeth
  • Cumaean Sibyl
  • cuttlefish
  • Cyrus

• • Dante Alighieri
  • • Divine Comedy
• • David
  • Davis, Natalie Zemon
  • Declaration of Villers-Cotterêts (1559)
  • Defaux, Gérard
  • Democritus
  • Demonet, Marie-Luce
  • Denis of Halicarnassus
  • Denys the Areopagite
  • • on God
    • on honey
    • on Moses
    • On Divine Names
    • via negativa
    • see also Pseudo-Denys the Areopagite
• • d'Espence, Claude
  • destabilization
  • Diana
  • Diogenes the Cynic
  • Dionysian tradition
  • Dionysus
  • Diophanus of Nicea
  • disorientation
  • divine immanence
  • divine light
  • divine mercy
  • divine Will
  • dogs
  • Dolabella, Publius Cornelius
  • Dream of Poliphilio, The
  • Drévillon, Hervé
  • Druids
  • Du Bourg, Anne
  • Du Faur, Louis
  • Dubois, Simon
  • Dupèbe, Jean
  • Dupront, Alphonse
  • Duval, Edwin

• • eclipses
  • • lunar
    • solar
• • Edict of Amboise (1563)
  • Edict of Nantes (1598)
  • Edict of Rouen (1559)
  • Egyptians see ancient Egyptians
  • emblems
  • • Alciato's Emblematum Libellus
    • books of
• • encyclopedism
  • End-Time/end of the world
  • • conversion and
    • date of
    • violence and
    • see also Apocalypse; Last Judgement
• • enigmas
  • • faith and
    • human understanding and
    • mirror and
• • Ephemerides
  • Epistle to King Henri II
  • Erasmianism
  • • foolish wisdom
    • Nostradamus and
• • Erasmus, Desiderius
  • • Adages
    • Adagia Collectanea
    • Apology on ‘In the Beginning was the Word’
    • Apophthegmata
    • on Christ
    • Colloquies
    • Complaint of Peace
    • exemplum fabulosam
    • The Godly Feast
    • Manual of a Christian Soldier
    • On Language
    • philosophia Christi
    • Praise of Folly
    • on writing and praxis
• • Estates General (Orléans, 1560–1)
  • eternity
  • Eucharist
  • • real presence
• • Eutropius
  • evil
  • • astrology and
• • Excellent and Most Useful Little Work
  • eye, sun as
  • Ezzelino da Romano

• • Fabri, Claude
  • faith
  • • enigmas and
    • imaginary of Christian faith
    • Justification by Faith
• • Fall, the
  • • see also Adam; original sin
• • fate
  • • revolud fatum
• • fear
  • Febvre, Lucien
  • Ferdinand of Aragon
  • Ferdinand I, King of Bohemia
  • Ficino, Marsilio
  • • Commentary
    • negative dissimilarity
• • fideism
  • fire
  • fish
  • • cuttlefish
• • fish-hook
  • Fontaine, Charles
  • Fontaine, Marie-Madeleine
  • food
  • • banquets
    • bread
    • honey
    • jam-making
    • milk
    • preserving lemon peel
• • foolish wisdom
  • Fourquevaux, Raymond Beccarie de Pavie, sieur de
  • François I, King of France
  • François II, King of France
  • • death of
• • fratricide
  • Freud, Sigmund

• • Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery
  • Gaius Octavius
  • Galen
  • Galenist medical theories
  • Garde, Paulin de la
  • Garden of Eden
  • Garencières, Theophilus de
  • Gauricus, Lucas
  • Gazeau, Guillaume
  • Genesis of the French Reformation, The
  • Geneva School of Literary Criticism
  • Gesner, Conrad
  • Gnostics
  • God
  • • all in all
    • of anger/violence
    • Christ as the mystery of
    • creator God
    • Denys the Areopagite on
    • divine immanence
    • divine light
    • divine mercy
    • divine Will
    • hidden treasure
    • names of
    • omnipotence
    • prophecy as gift of
    • signs from
    • as silence
    • Soli Deo (God alone)
    • sun metaphor
    • violence and
    • see also Christ; Word of God/Logos
• • God in his Realms: a History of the Wars of Religion
  • Gospels see Bible
  • Gouberville, Gilles de
  • Goyet, François
  • grease-paint see make-up
  • Great Schism
  • Grévin, Jacques
  • Gryphe, Sébastien
  • Guise family
  • Guise, François de

• • Habsburgs
  • • defeat of
    • wars against
• • Hans, Jean de
  • Haton, Claude
  • Hebræus, Leo see Leo the Hebrew
  • Hector
  • Hecuba
  • Helen of Troy
  • Henri II, King of France
  • • death of
    • Epistle to
    • Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
• • Henri III, King of France
  • Henri IV, King of France (Henri de Navarre)
  • Heraclitus
  • heresy
  • Hermes Trismegistus
  • hermeticism
  • hidden treasure
  • Hieroglyphes de Horapollo
  • • see also Horus Apollon
• • hieroglyphic language
  • Hippocrates
  • • Epidemics
    • Insomniæ
    • Præsagia
    • Prognostics and Prorrhetics
• • Histoire ecclésiastique
  • Holy Spirit
  • Homer
  • honey
  • horoscopes
  • Horus Apollon
  • Huguenots
  • • Saint Bartholomew massacre
• • humanism
  • • century, use of
    • copia
    • peaceful co-existence
    • symbolic language
• • humour, use of

• • Iamblichus
  • Ice Age
  • iconoclasm
  • ignorant ruler
  • Illyricus, Flacius
  • imaginary
  • • of Christian faith
    • magma of
    • of Nostradamus
    • of the Renaissance
• • Innocent VIII, Pope
  • Inquisition, the
  • internet
  • inversion
  • Isabella of Castile
  • Isabella Jagiellon
  • Islam
  • • see also Muslims

• • jam-making
  • Jaubert, Etienne
  • Jeanne de Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret)
  • Jeanneret, Michel
  • Jesus Christ see Christ
  • Jews/Judaism
  • • expulsion from Spain
• • Job
  • John, Gospel of
  • John XXIII, antipope
  • John Zápolya, King of Hungary
  • judicial astrology
  • Justification by Faith

• • Kabbalah
  • Karanova, Olga
  • Kerver, Jacques
  • Kos medical school

• • La Marck, Antoine de
  • La Perrière, Guillaume de
  • • La Morosophie
• • La Taille, Jean de
  • Lagrange, Pierre
  • language
  • • Adamite language
    • hieroglyphic language
    • humanism
    • metaphorical language
    • Nostradamian language
    • predictive writing
    • sacred language
    • symbolic language
• • Last Judgement
  • • Michelangelo
    • St Mark's Gospel
    • see also Apocalypse; End-Time
• • Le Picart, François
  • Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques
  • Lemesurier, Peter
  • lemon peel, preserved/candied
  • Leo the Hebrew
  • • Dialoghi d'amore
• • Leoni, Edgar
  • Leonicenus, Nicolas
  • Leowitz, Cyprien
  • Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
  • L'Hospital, Michel de
  • • Carmina
• • Lichtenberger, Johannes
  • Licinius I, Emperor
  • light
  • • divine light
    • mirror and
    • Scève's Desire
• • literary creation
  • Livy
  • Logos see Word of God/Logos
  • Louis XII, King of France
  • Louis XVI, King of France
  • Luca, Luciano de
  • Lucian of Samosata
  • Luke, Gospel of
  • lunar eclipses
  • Luther, Martin
  • Lutheranism
  • Lycosthenes, Conrad

• • Mailles, Jacques de
  • make-up
  • Manilius, Marcus, Astronomica
  • Manual of a Christian Soldier
  • Manutius, Aldus
  • Marczuk-Szwed, Barbara
  • Margolin, Jean-Claude
  • Marguerite de Valois
  • Marguerite of Navarre
  • • ‘Comedy in the Desert’
    • daughter see Jeanne de Navarre
    • Heptaméron
    • Mirror of the Sinful Soul
    • Neoplatonism
• • Marie-Antoinette
  • Mark, Gospel of
  • Martin, Jean
  • Martin, Jehan
  • Martinuzzi, Giorgio
  • masks
  • massacre of Saint Bartholomew
  • Matthew, Gospel of
  • Maurevert, Charles de Louviers, sieur de
  • medicine
  • • case-histories
    • medical history
    • preventative medicine
    • of the soul
    • symptoms
• • Menodotus of Nicomedia
  • Michelangelo, ‘Last Judgement’
  • Miernowski, Jan
  • milk
  • Millet, Olivier
  • Milo of Croton
  • Mirabilis Liber
  • Mirandola, Pico della
  • • On the Dignity of Man
• • mirror
  • • Biblical connotation
    • burning mirror
    • in Lefèvre d'Étaples
    • in Marguerite of Navarre
    • meaning
    • Word of God and
• • modernity
  • Monster of Abuse
  • monstrous births
  • Montaigne, Michel de
  • • Essays
    • ‘On Repenting’
• • Montmorency, Anne de
  • More, Thomas
  • Morel, Jean
  • Moses
  • Motteux, Peter Anthony
  • Münster Rebellion
  • Münster, Sebastian
  • muscat soap
  • Muslims
  • • see also Islam
• • Musurus, Marcus

• • narcissism
  • • see also self-love
• • nature
  • • inversion
    • jam-making and
    • make-up and
    • see also animal symbols
• • Navarre, Antoine de
  • Neher, Rabbi André
  • Neoplatonism
  • • Catherine de Médicis and
    • God All in All
    • Horus Apollon
    • Jeanne de Navarre and
    • mysticism
    • negative dissimilarity
    • perpetuum mobile
    • pythagorean perspective
    • Rabelais and
    • Saint Bartholomew massacre
    • theory of vision
    • see also Ficino, Marsilio
• • Neopythagoreanism
  • Neostoicism
  • New Almanac for the year 1562
  • New Prognostication for the Year 1555
  • New Prognostication for the Year 1558
  • New Testament see Bible
  • Nicolas of Cusa
  • • On Learned Ignorance
• • Noah's Ark
  • Nolle, Ambrosius Leo de
  • Nostradame, César
  • Nostradamus the Younger, Michel
  • Nostredame, Jean de
  • numerology

• • Obsequens, Julius
  • • Book of Prodigies
• • Octavius, Gaius
  • Ognyon
  • Old Testament see Bible
  • ontological turn
  • Oporinus, Johannes
  • Oracle of Delphi
  • Ordinance of Orléans (1561)
  • Origen
  • original sin
  • • see also Adam; Fall, the
• • original theology (prisca theologia)
  • Orosius
  • Orpheus
  • Osiris
  • Ottomans
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses

• • paganism
  • panic
  • • see also angst
• • Papacy
  • paradox
  • Paraphrase of the Protreptic of Galen
  • parricide
  • ‘particularize’
  • Paul, St
  • • 1 Corinthians
    • 2 Corinthians
    • Colossians
    • Hebrews
    • Romans
• • pentagram
  • perpetuum mobile
  • Peter, St
  • philautia see self-love
  • Philip II
  • Pietro Cara di San Germane Vercellese
  • Pirenne, Henri, Mohammed and Charlemagne
  • Pius IV, Pope
  • plague
  • • Aix-en-Provence
    • bubonic plague
    • symptoms
• • Plato
  • • Banquet
    • Symposium
    • Timaeus
    • see also Neoplatonism
• • Platonic theory of vision
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Pliny the Younger
  • Plotinus
  • poison
  • Polizzi, Gilles
  • polysemy
  • Pontevès, Durant de
  • Ponticus, Evagrius
  • Poulet, Georges
  • Prévost, Roger
  • prisca theologia
  • Proclus
  • Prognostication ou Revolution, Avec les Presage
  • Prognostication for the Year 1555
  • Prognostication for the Year 1560
  • prognostics
  • Prophecies
  • • antimonies
    • bleakness of
    • century, use of
    • hidden treasure
    • human cruelty/folly
    • injustice of life
    • lack of order in
    • language
    • linguistic anarchy
    • parables
    • polysemy
    • Preface
    • quatrain, use of
    • similarity/dissimilarity
    • style of writing
    • symbolic language
    • time structure
    • translations
• • prophecy
  • • 1 Samuel and
    • clairvoyance
    • as gift of God
    • meaning
• • Proteus
  • Psalms
  • • Psalm
    • Psalm
    • Psalm 50 (51, Vulgate)
    • Psalm 58
    • Psalm 59
    • Psalm 65
    • Psalm 86
    • Psalm 89
    • Psalm 90
    • Psalm 93 (92, Vulgate)
    • Psalm 107
    • Psalm 138
    • see also Bible
• • Psellos, Michael
  • Pseudo-Denys the Areopagite
  • • On Divine Names
    • see also Denys the Areopagite
• • Ptolemy, Geography
  • Punic Chronicle of Joel
  • Pythagoras
  • • Neopythagoreanism

• • quatrains, use of

• • Rabelais, François
  • • abbey of Thélème
    • Antidoted Fanfreluches
    • Gargantua and Pantagruel
    • the Gospel and
    • humour, use of
    • Isle of Ruach
    • Quart Livre
    • Tiers Livre
    • translations
• • rainbow
  • Ravisi, Jean Tixier de
  • reading, act of
  • Redemption
  • Regiomontanus
  • reincarnation
  • Renaissance
  • • encyclopedism
    • language
    • metaphorical language
    • nature
    • pessimism
    • spirit of intelligence
    • symposia
    • theurgy
• • representation (Vorstellung)
  • resurrection
  • • of Christ
    • General Resurrection
• • revealed inspiration
  • revolud fatum
  • Richard, Jean-Pierre
  • Richet, Denis
  • Roman Catholic Church see Catholic Church
  • Ronsard, Pierre de
  • • To His Lute
• • rose
  • Rosne, Antoine du
  • Rotier, Esprit
  • Rouillé, Guillaume
  • Roussat, Richard

• • Saconay, Gabriel de
  • sacred language
  • sacred mysteries
  • Sadducees
  • Sadoleto, Jacobo
  • Saint Bartholomew massacre
  • Saint-Denis, battle of (1567)
  • Salminien, Renja
  • San Salvador
  • Sarrazin, Philibert
  • Saul
  • Sauvage, Denys
  • Savonarola, Girolamo
  • • Compendium of Revelations
• • Scaliger, Jules César
  • • Poemata
    • Poetices libri septem
• • Scève, Maurice
  • • Desire
    • Microcosm
• • science
  • Screech, Michael
  • Scriptures see Bible
  • self-love
  • • narcissism
• • Seneca, Deus temperans
  • Serbelloni, Francesco Fabrizio
  • Serres, Louis
  • Sieburth, Richard
  • Significations of the Eclipse, The
  • Signorelli, Luca
  • silence
  • • cogito of
    • conversion and
    • as expression of the Logos
    • God as
    • kingdom of Christ
    • via negativa
    • Word of God and
    • worship in
• • Simonin, Michel
  • Skenazi, Cynthia
  • skin-cream see make-up
  • soap
  • Socrates
  • solar eclipses
  • solar metaphor
  • Solinus
  • Solomon
  • soul
  • • anima mundi
    • physick of
• • sports
  • St-Jean cathedral, Lyon
  • Starobinski, Jean
  • Statius, Publius Papinius, Thebaid
  • Stoeffler, Johannes, Ephemerides
  • Stoic philosophy
  • • Neostoicism
• • sugar
  • Suleyman the Magnificent
  • sun
  • • as eye
    • God and
• • Suriano, Michel
  • Surprise of Meaux (1567)
  • symbolic language

• • Tarquin the Elder
  • Tende, Claude de
  • Themistocles
  • theocentrism
  • theurgy
  • Thursday as day of veneration
  • Tornabuoni, Niccolò
  • tornado
  • Tournes, Jean de
  • Tower of Babel
  • tragedy
  • transmutation
  • treason
  • Treatise on Jams
  • tripod
  • Trivulzio, Gian Giacomo
  • Tubbe, Lorenz
  • Turrel, Pierre

• • Urquhart, Thomas

• • Valerius Maximus
  • Valéry, Paul
  • Valleriola, François
  • Vauzelles, Jean de
  • via negativa
  • Videl, Laurent
  • Vigor, Simon
  • Villermain, Louis
  • violence
  • • Catholic violence
    • Church and
    • conversion and
    • End-Time and
    • God of
    • Orléans pogrom
    • politico-religious
    • Saint Bartholomew massacre
    • women and
    • see also war
• • Virgil
  • • Aeneid
    • Iliad
• • Virgil, Polydore
  • Virgin of the Cosmos
  • Virgin Mary
  • Vives, Juan Luis
  • Vogelin, Johannes

• • Wanegffelen, Thierry
  • war
  • • wars of religion
    • see also civil war; violence
• • Warriors of God: Violence in the Time of Troubles over Religion
  • Wind, Edgar
  • wisdom
  • • foolish wisdom
• • Wolffhart, Conrad see Lycosthenes, Conrad
  • women, violence and
  • Word of God/Logos
  • • Agrippa on
    • divine light
    • eating/ingesting
    • as honey
    • ineffability of
    • milk as metaphor for
    • nature as mirror
    • as revealed inspiration
    • revealing of
    • silence and
• • writing, act of

• • Year 3797

• • Zoroaster