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20 Reformation. What role did they play in society? What kind of reaction did they get from church and state, or from the people? Why were they popular – but why might they also have been feared? Questions for Discussion Why did the people of Europe see a great significance in events that to us appear ‗natural‘? How were signs and portents categorised and interpreted? What kinds of signs and portents were most common? How did early modern commentators separate the true ‗sign‘ from the false? Was there a difference between a miracle and a portent? How were dreams understood and interpreted? Why were prophets and prophecy so popular –or so feared? Primary Sources for Class Discussion A True Report of Certaine Wonderfull Overflowings of Waters Strange News out of Kent (1609) Strange News from Mile-End (1684) Philip Melanchthon, Initia Doctrinae Physicae Martin Luther, In Primum Librum Mose Enarrationes Thomas Campanella, Astrologicorum book 7 Tycho Brahe, De Cometa Anni Pierre Bayle, Pnsees Diverses sur la comete Bierre Boaistuau, Histoires Prodigieuses Paracelsus, De Natura Rerum Martin del Rio, Disquisitiones Magicae book 9 Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia Martin del Rio, Disquisitiones Magicae book 4 Paracelsus, De Natura Rerum book 9 (extract 2) Giovanni Indagine, Chiromantia Girolamo Cardano, Metoposcopia Four images of monsters A Most Strange and Wonderful Accident (1600) Secondary Reading Bauckham, R., Tudor Apocalypse (Sutton Courtenay, 1978). Brammall, K., ‗Monstrous Metamorphosis: Nature, Morality and the Rhetoric of Monstrosity in Tudor England‘, Sixteenth Century Journal (1996) Clark, S., Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1997), part II, chs. 10, 11, 16, 17 Cressy, D., Travesties and Transgressions (Oxford, 1999). (esp. chapters 1,2,11)
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