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

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Course guidebook include bibliographical references

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The terror of history

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Teofilo F. Ruiz

720

The great courses. Ancient & medieval history

mystics, heretics, and witches in the Western tradition

This set of twenty-four 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

Disc 1. The terror of history ; Politics, economy, and society ; Religion and culture ; Mysticism in the western tradition ; Mysticism in the twelfth century ; Mysticism in the thirteenth century -- disc 2. Jewish mysticism ; Mysticism in early modern Europe ; Heresy and the millennium ; The church under attack ; The birth of the Inquisition ; The millennium in the sixteenth century -- disc 3. Jewish millennial expectations ; The mysteries of the Renaissance ; Hermeticism, astrology, alchemy, and magic; The origins of witchcraft ; Religion, science, and magic ; The witch craze and its historians -- disc 4. Fear and the construction of Satan ; The witch craze and misogyny ; The world of witches ; The witches of Loudon ; The witches of Essex and Salem ; The survival of the past

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Mystics, heretics, and witches in the Western tradition