The interplay between knowledge and religion forms a pivotal component of how early modern individuals and societies understood themselves and their surrounding

An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.

Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytica

Aims to bring together essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standar

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the `long seventee