Literary Texts and Divination Techniques in Medieval Occitania. A Short Survey

LiteraryTextsandDivinationTechniquesinMedievalOccitania.AShortSurvey Medieval Provence is an exceptional terrain for studying the material circulation of divinatory culture. We find here a particulary large number of divination techniques, some of which are very rare to be found in written records, suchasavimancy andscapulomancy,andanunusuallylargenumberofquotations in poetry and narrative, showing that this region is really to be considered as one of most important cross-roads of medieval Western divination.