In bringing together a rich collection of contemporary accounts of the period, this volume chronicles the rise and fall of the cult of witchcraft that swept through Europe between the 11th and 18th centuries.

Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700

Edward Peters

Alan Charles Kors

History

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

A professor of history and a criminal defense attorney expose what they see as the deterioration and outright violation of civil liberties in one of the places it usually flourishes, institutions of higher education. 25,000 first printing.

The SHADOW UNIVERSITY: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

Education & Teaching

Harvey A. Silverglate

Kors, Alan Charles

Higher & Continuing Education

Free Press

The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History ([Sources of Medieval History])

Europe

University of Pennsylvania Press

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

Douglas Kellner

Dennis Dalton

Robert C. Solomon

Mark W. Risjord

Phillip Cary

Jeremy duQuesnay Adams

Kathleen Marie Higgins

Michael Sugrue

Louis A. Markos

Darren M. Staloff

Dennis G. Dalton

Jeremy Shearmur

Robert Hilary Kane

Teaching Company

Revolutions in thought (as opposed to those in politics or science) are in many ways the most far-reaching of all. They affect how we grant legitimacy to authority, define what is possible, create standards of right and wrong, and even view the potential of human life. Between 1600 and 1800, such a revolution of the intellect seized Europe, shaking the minds of the continent as few things before or since. What we now know as the Enlightenment challenged previously accepted ways of understanding reality, bringing about modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars, sparking what Professor Kors calls, "perhaps the most profound transformation of European, if not human, life." In this series of 24 insightful lectures, you'll explore the astonishing conceptual and cultural revolution of the Enlightenment. You'll witness in its tumultuous history the birth of modern thought in the dilemmas, debates, and extraordinary works of the 17th and 18th-century mind, as wielded by the likes of thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. And you'll understand why educated Europeans came to believe that they had a new understanding - of thought and the human mind, of method, of nature, and of the uses of knowledge - with which they could come to know the world correctly for the first time in human history, and with which they could rewrite the possibilities of human life.

The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Teaching Company

Lecture transcripts and course guidebook, still in shrink wrap

The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries Vol. 1 & 2 Books Only. (The Great Courses)

Science & Math

Evolution

Discover why intellectuals and historians alike consider Voltaire to be one of the most intriguing, influential, and elusive thinkers of the modern world. Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, these 12 lectures sketch for you a vibrant, thought-provoking vision of Voltaire as "the father of the Enlightenment" and one of the great literary personalities of all time. You'll follow this Enlightenment thinker's 84 astoundingly productive years and go inside not only his masterpiece, Candide, but the hundreds of other works in almost all the literary, philosophical, and polemical genres current in his day, and the more than 20,000 letters this prolific writer and thinker left behind. What was Voltaire's world like? Who and what influenced him? What questions and dilemmas did he ponder? What evils did he struggle against? What reforms did he advocate? What made him laugh and cry, or write a book like Candide, which is at once so funny and so sad? And what is his place in the history of the Western mind? The answers to these and other questions can be found right here in this illuminating lecture series. If you're unfamiliar with Voltaire and his works, prepare to meet one of Western literature's defining writers. And if you already have some familiarity with the man, prepare to discover even more insights into why he still matters after all these years.

Voltaire and the Triumph of the Enlightenment

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