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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization'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 persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone, but continues to shape our world and define who we are today. The book focuses on the vast changes that took place in Western civilization between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg's printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years' War. Eire devotes equal attention to the various Protestant traditions and churches as well as to Catholicism, skepticism, and secularism, and he takes into account the expansion of European culture and religion into other lands, particularly the Americas and Asia. He also underscores how changes in religion transformed the Western secular world.0A book created with students and nonspecialists in mind, Reformations is an inspiring, provocative volume for any reader who is curious about the role of ideas and beliefs in history.

Counter-Reformation --- Christian religion --- Reformation --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 284 --- 27 "14/16" --- 27 "14/16" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"14/16" --- 27 "14/16" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"14/16" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"14/16" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"14/16" --- 284 Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten --- 284 Protestantisme. Sectes protestantes --- Protestantisme. Protestantse sekten --- Protestantisme. Sectes protestantes --- Christian church history --- World history --- Christelijke godsdienst --- Christelijke kerkgeschiedenis --- Wereldgeschiedenis --- Reformatie --- Contrareformatie --- Europa --- Reformation. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Renaissance. --- Réforme protestante --- Église --- Contre-Réforme --- Réforme protestante --- Église --- Contre-Réforme

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393 <460> --- 236.1 --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Spanje --- Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- Death --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- History of doctrines --- 236.1 Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- 393 <460> Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers--Spanje --- History of civilization --- Christian church history --- anno 1500-1599 --- Spain --- 16th century --- Religious life and customs --- Death - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History of doctrines - 16th century. --- Spain - Religious life and customs.

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What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally.

Civilization, Western. --- Eternity --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Infinite --- Future life --- History of doctrines.

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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores-such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science-have resonance and lessons for our time. -- Dust jacket.

History of philosophy --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Levitation. --- Mysticism --- Supernatural. --- Lévitation. --- Mystique --- Surnaturel. --- Christianity. --- Christianisme.

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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores-such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science-have resonance and lessons for our time.

Levitation --- Mysticism --- Supernatural