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(0)Teofilo F Ruiz
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This set of twenty-four lectures examines aspects of elite and popular culture in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, focusing on the way in which men and women seeking to explain, order, and escape the terrors of their lives embraced transcendental religious experiences, dreamed of and worked for the coming of the apocalypse, and seized on a widespread belief in witchcraft and Satanism.
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the worldwide exploration that began in the mid-15th century, the motivations for exploration, and pioneers such as Bartolomeu Dias, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan. Scholars from University of California, Los Angeles, and California Lutheran University share their insights.
