Table of Contents

Astronomy in Christian Latin Europe, c500 - c1150; Plinian astronomy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages; Origins and contents of the Leiden planetary configuration (ms Voss Q.79, f 93v): an artistic astronomical schema of the early Middle Ages; The astronomy of Macrobius in Carolingian Europe - Dungal's letter of 811 to Charles the Great; The astronomies of Pliny, Martianus Capella, and Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian world; Astronomical images and planetary theory in Carolingian studies of Martianus Capella; Plato and circumsolar planetary motion in the Middle Ages; Heraclides and Heliocentrism - texts, diagrams, and interpretations; Calcidius's commentary on Plato's Timaeus in Latin astronomy of the 9th to 11th centuries.