Carlos M. N. Eire

An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance. "Historically rich and superbly written."—David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as scepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In They...

A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion. This fast-paced survey of Western civilisation’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...