This book makes De Sortibus, Thomas Aquinas's letter to a friend on the casting of lots, available in clear English for the first time. The letter was written a

This book makes De Sortibus, Thomas Aquinas’s letter to a friend on the casting of lots, available in clear English for the first time. The letter was written

The fourteen essays in this work examine late antique lot divination in the Mediterranean world, employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, cl

A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain certain incidents retrospectively through si