Through prodigious research in European and American archives, Gerson shows that Nostradamus - a creature of the modern West rather than a vestige from some antediluvian era - tells us more about our past and our present than about our future. And on September 12, 2001, teenagers proclaimed on the streets of Brooklyn that 'this guy, Nostradamus' had seen the 9/11 attacks coming. In 1942, the Jewish writer IrГЁne NГ©mirovsky latched her hopes for survival to Nostradamus' prediction that the war would soon end. In 1666, guests at posh English dinner parties discussed his quatrain about the Great Fire of London. Whenever we seem to enter a new era, whenever the premises of our worldview are questioned or imperiled, Nostradamus offers certainty and solace. We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world? In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, historian StГ©phane Gerson takes readers on a journey back in time to explore the life and afterlife of Michel de Nostredame, the astrologer whose Prophecies have been interpreted, adopted by successive media, and eventually transformed into the Gospel of Doom for the modern age. It shows him in a completely new dimension, securing for him a significant place among the major thinkers of the Renaissance. This inspired interpretation penetrates the imaginative world of Nostradamus, a man whose life is as mysterious as his writings. His unveiling of the menacing and horrendous events which await us in the future was a way of frightening his readers into the realisation that inner hatred was truly the greatest peril of all, to which the sole remedy was to live in the love and peace of Christ. Like Rabelais, for whom laughter was a therapy to help one cope with the misery of the times, Nostradamus thought of himself as a physician of the soul as much as of the body. He saw himself, rather, as 'prophesying', i.e. Nostradamus was not trying to predict the future. In this bold new account of the life and work of Nostradamus, Denis Crouzet shows that any attempt to interpret his Prophecies at face value is misguided. 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, 1503-1566, was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance. One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. It is a race against time before someone finds the maze. Most importantly, some people believe the missing quatrains predict the end of the world. John Nomus and his friend, Sarah James, come to Paris and search everywhere for the clues to the maze and the lost quatrains. But there is one group which wants the information for itself and will do anything to obtain the lost quatrains, including murder. Most of the groups are harmless seekers of astrology, the zodiac, and the Nostradamus prophecies. However, there are other interested parties looking for the maze. When the cousin is mysteriously murdered, a direct descendent of Michel named John Nomus tries to find the murderer and the secret of the maze. The letter refers to the lost quatrains that can be found in a maze. In France today, a cousin of the descendent of Nostradamus has found a letter purported to be from Michel's son, Andre de Nostradamus. However, the final fifty-eight quatrains were never published and are presumed lost. Even today, his prophecies are continuously sold worldwide. Publishing almost a thousand predictions, his popularity was immense. He is known for his quatrains and prophecies. Michel de Nostradamus was a soothsayer and seer who lived in France in the sixteenth century.

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