This type of work demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory and has an element of novelty and originality. In-class oral activities and presentationĪWork of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensive knowledge of relevant information or content. This discussion entails the examination of some fundamental philosophical and historical issues by reading original texts and discussing them in class, in relation to the contexts and the debates of their age. Indeed, the two domains often overlap and this interaction inevitably results in a relation of conflict culminating in Giordano Bruno’s and Galileo Galilei’s dramatic trials. The boundaries between science and religion in 15th-17th centuries are neither fixed nor impermeable. The course aims to investigate the extent to which the two great realms of ‘magic’ and ‘science’ influenced each other during the Renaissance, as well as the story of the ensuing conflict between science and religion. PREREQUISITES: Prerequisite: Junior Standing. Waite argues that it was only when the authorities came to terms with pluralism that there was a corresponding decline in witch panics.COURSE NAME: " Magicians, Heretics, and Scientists in the Age of the Renaissance"
Waite examines in-depth how church leaders dispelled rising religious doubt by persecuting heretics, and how alleged infernal plots, and witches who confessed to making a pact with the Devil, helped the authorities to reaffirm orthodoxy. Fear of the Devil and his followers inspired horrific incidents of judicially-approved terror in early modern Europe, leading after 1560 to the infamous witch hunts.īringing together the fields of Reformation and witchcraft studies, this fascinating book reveals how the early modern period's religious conflicts led to widespread confusion and uncertainty.
However, the religious conflict of the sixteenth-century Reformation - especially popular movements of reform and revolt - helped to create an atmosphere in which diabolical conspiracies (which swept up religious dissidents, Jews and magicians into their nets) were believed to pose a very real threat. In the fifteenth century many authorities did not believe Inquisitors' stories of a supposed Satanic witch sect.
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