Homepage – https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/steven.vandenbroecke?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Studies in History and Philosophy at KU Leuven – PhD in History (2000) at KU Leuven. His dissertation focused on Renaissance astrology at the late medieval University of Louvain (Leuven). – Postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore – three years before returning to Belgium. Lecturer at KU Brussel before moving to Ghent University.
Heute arbeiten KU Leuven und UCLouvain teilweise wieder zusammen, sind aber getrennte Universitäten mit unterschiedlichen Sprachen und Verwaltungen.
Krakau als Astrologiezentrum im 15. Jh. – zentrale Figur war Albert von Brudzewo (Albertus de Brudzewo), der Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts in Krakau lehrte. – Er war bedeutend für kritische Kommentare zu Ptolemäus – Weiterentwicklung mathematischer Astronomie – Einfluss auf spätere Schüler wie Nikolaus Kopernikus, der in Krakau studierte (1490er Jahre) – Krakau war damit ein indirekter Ausgangspunkt für das spätere kopernikanische Weltbild.
SAE Filmliste
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLExliNMK29qMH_c4jUnikgV
Copyright
Volker H. Schendel only has the right to publish the conversation uncut and unedited on freely accessible video platforms (i.e. no paywalls) and on his homepages. – Our Guest has the right to shorten, edit or add as he wishes and to publish it on his websites and video-platforms according to his liking
Talk –
Youtube –
Bitchute –
Rumble –
Odysee –
1st Astra Project Workshop – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLF2UcnF4zrftZgIrxbA8P-N – Q&A – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7J9JyYD6yM&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLF2UcnF4zrftZgIrxbA8P-N&index=9 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Steven/Steven3.mp4
1st Astra Project Workshop – 05 Steven Vanden Broecke – Astrology as technology of self – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz9TpTuSZYU&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLF2UcnF4zrftZgIrxbA8P-N&index=7&t=13s – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Steven/Steven2.mp4 – Dorian timeless – a-modern – pre-modern – non-modern – Morinus – the topic of no personal astrological experience in the History of Astrology research. – Schelling? – tacit knowledge
Astra Conference 2023 –https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx8qA3u_BLGiRpNW0s7njKc54ht57eov
Astra Conference 2023 – L08 – Steven Vanden Broecke – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEFqs-_jVzg&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLExliNMK29qMH_c4jUnikgV&index=2&t=366s – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Steven/Steven1.mp4
„What Was an Astrological Practice?“
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Stichworte
John North – Johannes Schoener – https://www.astronomie-nuernberg.de/index.php?category=personen&page=schoener-johannes – https://www.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Johannes_Schöner – Fate and Providence – The Daimon – Myth of Er – The Republic by Plato, at the very end of the dialogue, in Book X (the final book), traditionally around 614b–621d in the Stephanus pagination system used for citing Plato. – Magic in Astrology – Agrippa – Prof. Rudolf Otto – 1917 – Marburg – „Das Heilige“ – Glaube und Mythos – Pneuma = Geist – Proklos Weltseele – Schelling – Die Prinzipien des Organischen Seins – Der Astrologische Mythos – Weltseele – Anima Mundi – Wirkmächtigkeit von Gradbezirken im Tierkreis und das Thema „Leere Felder, Grade, Gradbezirke“
Research groups
CCROC – Critical and Comparative Research on Culture
GEMS – Group for Early Modern Studies
GRH – Global and Regional Histories
IEMH – Institute for Early Modern History
SARTON – Sarton Centre for History of Science
THALIA – Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance
Main Research Themes
His scholarship explores how science developed in relation to:
- Religion
- Magic and occult traditions
- Universities and learned culture
- Printing and knowledge circulation
- Humanism
- Political and social structures
Rather than treating “science” as isolated progress, he studies how it emerged from older systems of belief and practice.
Publications
1. PhD – Dissertation – The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (Brill, 2003)
A major scholarly monograph based on his PhD, examining how astrology was debated and challenged in Renaissance Europe.
Stichworte – dedicated to Dries Claeys (1915-2002) – „Doktorvater“ Jan Roegiers – Louvain Seminarium Philologiae Humanistica – https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/humanistica?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Frances Yates Fellowship Warburg

2. Teratology and the Publication of Tycho Brahe’s New World System (1588)
Published in Journal for the History of Astronomy (2006). Looks at how strange natural phenomena and monster lore intersected with astronomy and cosmology.
3. Humanism, Philosophy and the Teaching of Euclid at a Northern University (1998)
Studies mathematics teaching, Euclid, and Renaissance intellectual culture.
Most recent publications
- Vanden Broecke, Steven. “The Changing Meaning of Astrological Elections : Ficino and the Astrologers.” Astrologers at Work : Essays on the Practices and Techniques of Astrology in Memory of Helena Avelar, edited by Luís Ribeiro and Charles Burnett, vol. 14, Brill, 2025, pp. 376–404, doi:10.1163/9789004745322_003.
- Vanden Broecke, Steven, and Jonathan Regier. “Special Issue Introduction.” EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, edited by Steven Vanden Broecke and Jonathan Regier, vol. 28, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1–7, doi:10.1163/15733823-20230062.
- Vanden Broecke, Steven, and Jonathan Regier, editors. “Individuality, Self-Care, and Self-Preservation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science.” EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, vol. 28, no. 1, 2023.
- Vanden Broecke, Steven. “Astrological Self-Government at the Fifteenth-Century Court of Bourbon.” EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, edited by Steven Vanden Broecke and Jonathan Regier, vol. 28, no. 1, 2023, pp. 34–62, doi:10.1163/15733823-20230064.
- Vanden Broecke, Steven. “Eschatology, Divination, and Gassendi’s Encounter with Spanish-Netherlandish Natural Philosophy (1629).” ERUDITION AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS, vol. 8, no. 4, 2023, pp. 336–56, doi:10.1163/24055069-08040003.
Projects as supervisor
- Every thunder means something. Meteorology, culture and the self in late antiquity (2023 – 2027)
- The many faces of meteorology. Toward a science of the weather in the French enlightenment (2020 – 2024)
- Natural, social, and spiritual order in enlightenment mesmerism. The society of universal harmony (1783-1787) (2019 – 2023)
- La révolution des temps. Revolutionary languages and politics of time in the Austrian Netherlands and the Dutch Republic, 1780-1790 (2015 – 2019)
Projects as co-supervisor
- History as fairy-ground. Scottish and Irish female voices and the gothic imagination (2020 – 2024)
- Planetary conjunctions in Mamlūk scholarly discourse. The science of the stars in zIjes, chronicles and eschatological texts in late fourteenth and early fifteenth century Syria and Egypt (2016 – 2020)
Kontext
Prof. Dr. Stephan Heilen – Konjunktionsprognostik in der Frühen Neuzeit
https://studip.uni-osnabrueck.de/sendfile.php?type=0&file_id=81ac8c6b59f9c172d1601e78883707d3&file_name=Heilen+2020+Flyer+deutsch.pdf – 1. Band: Die Antichrist-Prognose des Johannes von Lübeck (1474) zur Saturn-Jupiter-Konjunktion von 1504 und ihre frühneuzeitliche Rezeption. 2020. XII, 710 Seiten, 10 Abb. ISBN 978-3-87320-453-9 – https://koernerverlag.de/nichtbibliographische/saectext/saec53.html – https://hermetik.vonabisw.de/stephan-heilen-konjunktionsprognostik-in-der-fruehen-neuzeit

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A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance

William Lilly – Christliche Astrologie
in 3 Büchern in 2 Bänden im Chironverlag und in der Astronovaversandbuchhandlung
https://chiron-verlag.de/?manufacturers_id=681 – https://astronova.de/?manufacturers_id=709

William Lilly (1602 – 1681) ist der berühmteste Astrologe Englands. Bekannt wurde er zu seiner Zeit vor allem durch seine Almanache und seine Prognosen. Er war vor allem ein gefragter Stundenastrologe. Ihm gehörte eine umfangreiche Bibliothek an astrologischen Werken und er schrieb auch mehrere Bücher, wobei seine Christian Astrology auch heute noch als herausragend gilt.
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Brosseder – Im Bann der Sterne: Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon und andere Wittenberger Astrologen

Astronomia teutsch / Teutsch Astronomei (1545) ist ein frühneuhochdeutsches Lehr- und Kompendienwerk über Astronomie, Astrologie und Himmelskunde, gedruckt 1545 in Frankfurt am Main bei Cyriacus Jacob.
Dr. H. Darrel Rutkin
Sapientia Astrologica – Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250–1800: – I. Medieval Structures (1250–1500) – Conceptual, Institutional, Socio-Political, Theologico-Religious and Cultural

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Dr. Helena Avelar de Carvalho
Astrologer Dr. Helena Avelar – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJd0lr5Pve8&t=4859s – Talk – https://talk.vonabisw.de/videos2/Avelar.mp4 – https://astrologien.vonabisw.de/astrologien/avelar/
An Astrologer at Work in Late Medieval France: The Notebooks of S. Belle –

Astrologers at Work: Essays on the Practices and Techniques of Astrology in Memory of Helena Avelar (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, Band 14)

Dr. Luis Ribeiro
Filmliste Helena Avelar – Luis Ribeiro – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfUcScvQbEzlnmOazfbwLMJ6OvTqTCTy
Jesuit Astrology: Prognostication and Science in Early Modern Culture (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, Band 13)

On the Heavenly Spheres

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Chris Brennan
Astrology Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/@TheAstrologyPodcast/videos
Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune

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M.A. Demetra George
Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice: A Manual of Traditional Techniques, Volume I: Assessing Planetary Condition

Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice: A Manual of Traditional Techniques, Volume II: Delineating Planetary Meaning

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Ben Dykes
Kontext in Deutschland – Rafael Gil Brand
Astronova – https://astronova.de/?manufacturers_id=155
Lehrbuch der klassischen Astrologie – https://astronova.de/lehrbuch-der-klassischen-astrologie.html

Himmlische Matrix – Die Bedeutung der Würden in der Astrologie
https://astronova.de/himmlische-matrix.html

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Prof. Dr. Shlomo Sela –
https://disco.gwlb.de/search?q=brill+sela+ezra – Brill – https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Shlomo+Sela – https://brill.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Shlomo+Sela –
Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus: Henry Bate’s Latin Versions of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings: With English Translation and a Collation with the … Volume 8. (Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval)

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Prof. Dr. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (Ancient Magic and Divination)

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Guido Bonatti
https://bendykes.com/product-category/guido-bonatti
Bonatti on Nativities

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Henry Bate’s Nativitas
The Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher: Henry Bate’s Nativitas (1280-81) (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Series I, 17, Band 17)

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Abu Ma’shar
https://bendykes.com/?s=Abu+Ma%27shar
The Great Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars

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https://disco.gwlb.de/search?q=id%3A1662741197&v=1662741197

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The Book of Religions & Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions)

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Prof. Dr. Tamsyn Barton – Ancient Astrology (Sciences of Antiquity)

Page 209: “ Learned Astrologers …to improvise on the standard themes of astrology like Jazz Virtuosi“
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Dr. Nicholas Campion – History of Western Astrology
Volume I – The Ancient World

A History of Western Astrology Volume II: The Medieval and Modern Worlds

Habilitationsschrift 2016 von PD Dr. Gustav Adolf Schoener
Astrologie in der Europäischen Religionsgeschichte – Kontinuität und Diskontinuität – mit PD Dr. Gustav Adolf Schoener – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIG94rJo0Zk&list=PLqrXs5EoIK0mtsIj_wWwIvF9G15psGv_Q&index=1 – –https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener1.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener2.mp4 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener3.mp4
Seite 219: “ Die Struktur der Astrologie setzt sich aus den beiden Komponenten analoge Entsprechung und Göttlichkeit des Kosmos zusammen…..Beide Strukturelemente bilden ineinander verschränkt das religiöse Weltbild der Astrologie.“

VDA Symposium 2018 – Referat Gustav-Adolf Schoener – Die ‚Göttlichkeit der Gestirne‘ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joJM2ioEkRY&list=PLqrXs5EoIK0mtsIj_wWwIvF9G15psGv_Q&index=2 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener4.mp4
PD Dr. Gustav-Adolf Schoener: Glaube und Mythos – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1htl0wFsDhY – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener5.mp4
Astrology in European Religious History: Its Philosophical Foundations through the Ages (English Edition)

Angewandte Astrologie mit Privatdozent Dr. Gustav Adolf Schoener – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBkj4-pE4Ls – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Schoener/Schoener6.mp4
Heinrich Rantzau and the Power of the Stars by Günther Oestmann – SHA – 24 MAR 2022
–https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0HmRl0MYjI&list=PLlx8qA3u_BLF–Wmng9awIVo-SksydGNf&index=6 – https://talk.vonabisw.de/Oestmann/Oestmann4.mp4
Habilitationsschrift von Prof. Dr. Günther Oestmann – 2004
Heinrich Rantzau und die Astrologie (Disquisitiones Historiae Scientiarum – Braunschweiger Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

Brill 2026 – English Edition
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Amsterdam 2004 – Horoscopes and Public Spheres
Essays on the History of Astrology (Religion and Society Book 42) (English Edition) – https://www.amsterdamhermetica.nl










































