Recherches sur une technique divinatoire: la geomancie dans l'Occident medieval

Therese Charmasson's study is the standard scholarly account of the Latin geomantic tradition in medieval Europe, working directly from the twelfth century Latin translations and the surviving manuscript families to trace how the geomantic shield chart actually developed in the medieval West. That direct manuscript based transmission history is the study's real evidentiary basis. Use it for established scholarly facts about the medieval Latin geomantic tradition's origin and manuscript transmission; it addresses the Latin, European reception of geomancy specifically, not the earlier Islamic tradition it was translated from, which needs a source such as Savage-Smith and Smith's study of Islamic geomancy addressed directly.