Description
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.
Table of Contents
Editors and contributors
Series Introduction
Introduction
Daniel Robinson
1. Towards a History of Evil: Inquisition and Fear in the Medieval West
Teofilo F. Ruiz
2. Witchcraft
Daniel Robinson
3. Medicine
Daniel Robinson
4. Magic and the Sciences during an Age of Change
Peter Maxwell-Stuart
5. Niccolò Machiavelli
Cary J. Nederman and Guillaume Bogiaris
6. Luther
Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth
7. John Calvin on Evil
Paul Helm
8. Evil within and Evil without: Teresa of Avila Battles the Devil
Bárbara Mujica
9. Anabaptists
Gerald J. Mast
10. Francis Bacon
John Henry
11. Shakespeare and Evil
Claire Landis
12. Hobbes and Evil
Geoffrey Gorham
13. Descartes on Evil
Zbigniew Janowski
14. Milton
Dennis Danielson
15. Baruch Spinoza on Evil
Eugene Marshall
16. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Marcy P. Lascano
17. Cambridge Platonism
Charles Taliaferro
18. Indigenous Peoples
Kenneth H. Lokensgard
19. Religious Authority and Power: Rituals of Conflict in Africa
Bala Saho
20. Representations
Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans
Index
