Catholicism and the Early Modern Imagination

The imagination as a human faculty was subjected to some of the most fascinating explorations in its history during the period from 1430 to 1680. Fernando Cervantes will explore the broad Catholic intellectual background of these debates with particular reference to the work the two greatest literary figures of the age: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare.
Fernando Cervantes is a historian of early modern Europe specializing in the cultural, religious and intellectual history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. He is the author of The Devil in the New World (1994) and The Hispanic World in the Historical Imagination (2006) as well as editor of Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America (1999). He is currently completing a book entitled The Celestial and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in the Hispanic World.

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