Proving the Supernatural: Belief and Nature in Early Modern Europe

USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute: Visual and Material Culture

Saturday, February 2, 2013 : 10:00am to 1:30pm

Huntington Library
1152 Oxford Road
Seaver 1 & 2
San Marino, CA 91108

free


Proving the Supernatural: Belief and Nature in Early Modern Europe

A. Katie Harris
, UC Davis
"Proving Sanctity: Experimentation and Authentication of Relics in the Early Modern Mediterranean"

Jonathan Seitz
, Drexel University
"The Exorcist as Expert"

Lydia Barnett
, Bates College
"Putting the Natural in Natural History"

Bradford Bouley
(event organizer), University of Southern California
"The Most Difficult Diagnosis: Debating the Supernatural in the Republic of Letters'

Lunch will be provided to those who rsvp to emsi@usc.edu by January 28, 2013.

 

 

Amy Braden

http://dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/visual-and-material-culture-2012/