Renaissance and Reformation · 2003 · 29 citations · 0 references
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seventeenth centuries in Protestant and Catholic Europe, but it does have a history, one in which popular credulity gradually gave way to the discrete "relative" scepticism of the elites.How these debates played out in literary works is worthy of consideration.Kallendorf's book, with its impressive range of literary, theoretical, and historical texts consulted, its copious notes, and a rich list of works cited will certainly become an invaluable point of departure for any scholar interested in exploring these questions.