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The second volume of Campion's survey of astrological beliefs in the west takes the reader from the fifth century to the present day. His key theme is the enmeshed nature of astrology within Christian religious thought, and the idea that God's intentions could be discerned through natural events and the observation of the skies, which had its hayday from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. Campion's approach is principally philosophical and he focuses on the debates surrounding astrology, its legitimacy, effectiveness and moral dimensions.