Fiery Shapes: Celestial Portents and Astrology in Ireland and Wales 700-1700

by Mark Williams (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $191.69

  A study of the representation of astrology and celestial portents in the medieval and later literature of Ireland and Wales, Fiery Shapes examines the mysterious figure of the druid, who was allegedly able to read the future from rainclouds; Taliesin and Merlin; and the Welsh gentleman poet of the later Middle Ages and beyond.