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• 19 oct 2010

  Oxford

  Study days - Early modern

  Power of Spirit and Imagination in 17th Century

  In this workshop, scholars from different disciplines will work together to study the early modern imagination. In particular, we are interested in the relation between general conceptions of the imagination at the time and more specific and controversial ideas of a creative, active and forceful imagination. This powerful imagination was dependent on ‘spirit’ in its different meanings in the early modern period (human spirit, demons, animal and other spirits, spirit of nature, etc.), resulting in a rich variety of opinions. These ideas of an active imagination and of powerful spirits, in their full complexity and diversity, were transmitted between philosophy, literature, medicine, the sciences, witchcraft, demonology as well as religion, and the workshop aims at unearthing the exchanges between these various fields.

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• 20 nov 2010

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Discourses on Method in Early Modern England: Towards a Modern Order?

  Appel à contributions pour le colloque interdisciplinaire « Les discours de la méthode en Angleterre, XVIe-XVIIe siècles : vers un ordre moderne ? », organisé à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, les 1er et 2 avril 2011. Les propositions de communication sont à envoyer d’ici le 20 novembre 2010.

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