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H365 Witches, Revolution, and Reason: Early Modern Europe

3 credit(s)
The early modern period, from approximately 1500 to 1750 is one of the most tumultuous in Western history.  The period began in a context of religious war and state buildings that culminated in the absolutist France and an England that endured two revolutions, regicide, and an emerging parliamentary system of government.  But perhaps its most distinguishing feature is the great witch-hunts that culminated in seventeenth-century prosecutions that sometimes mutated into hysteria.  This turbulent time ended with two highly influential intellectual movements, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, which radically rejected the religious fervor of the previous centuries for a program that lauded reason, nature, toleration, and new political theories.


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