History
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
W 10:10AM-12:00PM
This seminar explores the historical relationship between Jews, magic, and science in premodern Europe. We will consider magical and scientific beliefs as both separate and intersecting endeavors that provide a window into understanding how Jews viewed, made sense of, and tried to manipulate the world around them. Through close reading of secondary and primary sources on the subject, we will discuss the boundaries between conceptions of natural and supernatural, science and magic, reason and faith.
Link to Vergil
Note: only courses offered during the two previous semesters have active Vergil links.
