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Kiryukhin D. V. Images of Power in Political Prophecies and Astronomy: Henry VII’s “The Book of Astrology” as a Visual Source. Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations, 2020, vol. 20, iss. 1, pp. 41-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2020-20-1-41-46
Images of Power in Political Prophecies and Astronomy: Henry VII’s “The Book of Astrology” as a Visual Source
The manuscript of Henry VII’s “The Book of Astrology” of the British Library (Arundel MS. 66), in which astronomical treatises and political prophecies are accompanied by numerous illustrations, reflecting various symbols of the royal power of the new dynasty in England, is considered in the article as an imagographic historical source. The figures of the illuminated manuscript illustrate the accompanying text not literally (with the exception of maps of the starry sky and constellations), the miniature depicting the king accompanied by the French ambassador is not representative, but is an allusion of the political relations between two European powers.
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