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They Flew: A History of the Impossible

English

By (author): Carlos M. N. Eire

An award-winning historians 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 eratales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcrafteven as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos M. N. 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 Newtons 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 supernaturals relationship with the natural world. The questions he exploressuch 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 sciencehave resonance and lessons for our time. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300280074

About Carlos M. N. Eire

Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana winner of the National Book Award and of War Against the Idols; A Very Brief History of Eternity; and Reformations. He lives in Guilford CT.

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