History of Evil in the Early Modern Age

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