This study examines methods of predicting the future in

medieval England as recorded in a variety of previously

unpublished texts ranging from moon-based calculations

(including zodiacal lunaries) and horoscopes, texts identifying

times regarded as favourable or unfavourable for

specific initiatives and enterprises, dreambooks, treatises

derived from geomancy, to so-called "books of fate" which

exploit the tradition of sortes , and miscellaneous items on

prognostic phenomena such as weather and birthdates.

The choice of topics about which enlightenment was

sought proves to be remarkably consistent, the product

of both Latin traditions and local cultural conditions.

The book provides a counterpart to, and extension of,

Lázló Chardonnens's monograph, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics,

900-1100 : Study and Texts (2007).