Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

Mysticism in the Early Modern Europe (1x8)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

The nature of mysticism in early modern Europe and its evolution as a response to the impact of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. The lecture also examines case studies of the two greatest Spanish mystics of the 16th century, Saint Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.