The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age 1450-1700 CE

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The third volume of The History of Evil encompasses the early modern era from 1450–1700. This revolutionary period exhibited immense change in both secular knowledge and sacred understanding. It saw the fall of Constantinople and the rise of religious violence, the burning of witches and the drowning of Anabaptists, the ill treatment of indigenous peoples from Africa to the Americas, the reframing of formal authorities in religion, philosophy, and science, and it produced profound reflection on good and evil in the genius of Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Teresa of Avila, and the Cambridge Platonists. This superb treatment of the history of evil during a formative period of the early modern era will appeal to those with interests in philosophy, theology, social and political history, and the history of ideas. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 List of contributors......Page 10 Series introduction......Page 12 Introduction......Page 15 1 Towards a history of evil: Inquisition and fear in the medieval West......Page 19 2 Witchcraft......Page 40 3 Medicine......Page 54 4 Magic and the sciences during an age of change......Page 65 5 Niccolò Machiavelli......Page 85 6 Luther......Page 107 7 John Calvin on evil......Page 123 8 Evil within and evil without: Teresa of Avila battles the devil......Page 140 9 Anabaptists......Page 164 10 Francis Bacon......Page 185 11 Shakespeare and evil......Page 199 12 Hobbes and evil......Page 239 13 Descartes on evil......Page 254 14 Milton......Page 265 15 Baruch Spinoza on evil......Page 286 16 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz......Page 306 17 Cambridge Platonism......Page 326 18 Indigenous peoples......Page 343 19 Religious authority and power: rituals of conflict in Africa......Page 366 20 Representations......Page 384 Index......Page 408