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Foundations in the Study of Magic, Part 4: Early Modern
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Foundations in the Study of Magic, Part 4: Early Modern

Cunning-Folk and Witch Hunts up to the Early Modern Period.
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Created byR.A. Priddle
Last updated 11/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • History of magic in the Early Modern Period in Europe

Course content

5 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 7m total length

  • Fall of Rome5:29

    In this section I will introduce the development of Europe in the context of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate reading comprehension

Description

In Part 4 of the Foundations in the Study of Magic,  Section 1 will cover the decline of the fall of the Roman Empire and the impact it had on Western civilization. In Section 2  you will discover the magical professionals called the by modern scholars as the Cunning-folk as well as the services they offered to their clients for centuries. In later sections you will also learn about the origins of the witch hunts that spread throughout Europe and eventually to North America  over a 300 year period.  And in the final section this lecture will touch upon the fusions that occurred between Christianity and its pagan roots with a focus on England and Ireland.

Who this course is for:

  • Historians, Witches, Religious Studies Students, People wanting to know about a fascinating period of human history.

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