Professor Paul Kleber Monod: 2 books
Solomon's Secret Arts
The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult.
The Murder of Mr. Grebell
Madness and Civility in an English Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this gruesome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political, economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town?To answer these questions, this fascinating...