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The terror of history, mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Part 1 of 2, Part 1

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The terror of history, mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Part 1 of 2, Part 1

Language

eng

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videorecording

Main title

The terror of history

Oclc number

57013972

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 I. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Terror of history ; Lecture 2. Politics, economy, and society ; Lecture 3. Religion and culture ; Lecture 4. Mysticism in the western tradition ; Lecture 5. Mysticism in the twelfth century ; Lecture 6. Mysticism in the thirteenth century -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Jewish mysticism ; Lecture 8. Mysticism in early modern Europe ; Lecture 9. Heresy and the millennium ; Lecture 10. Church under attack ; Lecture 11. Birth of the Inquisition ; Lecture 12. Millennium in the sixteenth century

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Mystics, heretics, and witches in the western tradition

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