Nostradamus by Denis Crouzet, Mark Greengrass - 9781509507696

NostradamusA Healer of Souls in the Renaissance\nAuthor(s): Denis Crouzet, Mark Greengrass\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509507696, 978-1509507696\nSynopsis\nOne 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, [tel], was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance. In this bold new account of the life and work of Nostradamus, Denis Crouzet shows that any attempt to interpret hisPropheciesat face value is misguided. Nostradamus was not trying to predict the future. He saw himself, rather, as 'prophesying', [url] 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.