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In his history of the impossible, They Flew, award-winning historian Carlos Eire mines the firsthand accounts and archival evidence of the miraculous and demonic in early modern Europe. How did an increasingly skeptical and scientific culture account for events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals? What does this say about the supposed boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity?
Prof. Eire will lecture on the major themes of They Flew. University of Chicago Divinity School professor Kirsten Macfarlane will offer a response and engage Eire in a conversation. Audience Q&A will follow.
