Description:
Charles A. Ward is perhaps the best known of the academics who have endeavored to explain the relevance of Nostradamus' prophecies. He marshals an impressive array of linguistic and historical facts to back up his position on these enigmatic predictions. Charles Ward was a believer and once you've read his book you will be too.Since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes, diametrically opposed to what now obtains, that were I to relate events to come, those in power now - monarchs, leaders of sects and religions - would find these so different from their own imaginings that they would be led to condemn what later centuries will learn how to see and understand. - Nostradamus
Brief description: Charles A. Ward was a nineteenth-century English writer best remembered for his study Oracles of Nostradamus, one of the more substantial English-language treatments of Nostradamus and his prophetic writings. Ward approached the subject through biography, historical comparison, textual explanation, and interpretation, presenting Nostradamus within the wider traditions of prophecy, astrology, and European occult history.His work reflects the Victorian fascination with hidden knowledge, prediction, esoteric writing, and the historical interpretation of symbolic texts. Oracles of Nostradamus remains of interest to readers of Nostradamus, prophecy, occult studies, Renaissance astrology, historical esoterica, and nineteenth-century supernatural literature.