The expanding Church’s experience in the late Middle Ages created encounters with many hold-over features of pre-Christian tradition and many aberrations to the Faith due to isolated developments. This would coalesce at the start of the Early Modern Period into a concern about rural folk who were in league with the Devil, known as Witches.Continue reading “The Secret Rule of Satan and the Witches”
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The Early Modern Period and the Secret Rule of Satan
Some background is in order to get a sense of the world we are entering into in discussing John Dee. During the third period of expansion of early Islam, circa 661-750 EV, the entire extent of North Africa came under the control of the Umayyad Caliphate. From here, it became quite easy to stage anContinue reading “The Early Modern Period and the Secret Rule of Satan”