December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
315 pages
11h 8m
English
Moshe Sluhovsky
When confronted with apparitions, spectral visions and miracles that allegedly took place in late medieval and early modern Europe, historians (and other scholars) tend to explain them away. They were not really supernatural transformations, strange occurrences, visual encounters with angelic, demonic or deceased entities, but natural events that pre-modern people failed to comprehend.325 The events they described as supernatural or preternatural must have been meteorological anomalies, hallucinations resulting from this or that mental, medical or dietary condition, or dramatic psychological or psychopathological enactments of desires, fears and anxieties. Above all, we moderns ...
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