LEVERHULME LECTURES
Reinventing the Renaissance Research Centre Programme
*6 May, 2009, 17:30*, David 016 Lecture Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge
*Exaltation and Power: The Historiography of Renaissance Magic*
Lecture 1
The lecture looks at some of the main features of early modern magical ideas and practices and their scholarly interpretations since the beginning of the twentieth century.
*10 June, 2009, 17:30*, David 016 Lecture Theatre, Anglia Ruskin
University, Cambridge
*The Lure of the Occult: Renaissance Magic in Modern Cultural Representations*
The lecture looks at some English, German, Hungarian and Italian novels which recycle occult and esoteric themes and tries to answer the question: “How can we, if at all, explain the lure of the occult and the esoteric in our postmodern, industrialized world?”
Lectures by PROFESSOR GYÖRGY E. SZŐNYI
University of Szeged
Central European University, Budapest
and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
* “Download the poster”:https://www.ieas-szeged.hu/file_download/38/Leverhulme+lectures-Szonyi-poster.pdf