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The terror of history, mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Part 2 of 2, Part 2

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The terror of history, mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Part 2 of 2, Part 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The terror of history

Oclc number

57013974

Responsibility statement

Teofilo F. Ruiz

Runtime

360

Series statement

The great courses ancient & medieval history

Sub title

mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition

Summary

This set of twelve lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism

Table Of Contents

Part II. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Jewish millennial expectations ; Lecture 14. Mysteries of the Renaissance ; Lecture 15. Hermeticism, astrology, alchemy, and magic ; Lecture 16. Origins of witchcraft ; Lecture 17. Religion, science, and magic ; Lecture 18. Witch craze and its historians -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Fear and the construction of Satan ; Lecture 20. Witch craze and misogyny ; Lecture 21. World of witches ; Lecture 22. Witches of Loudon ; Lecture 23. Witches of Essex and Salem ; Lecture 24. Survival of the past

Technique

live action

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Mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition

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