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Angus Gowland – Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe

20 February 2015 @ 10:00 - 21 February 2015 @ 12:30

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Angus Gowland – Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe When and Where: Lecture: Thursday 19 February 2015, 16h-18h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.70 Master Class: Friday 20 February 2015, 10h-12.30h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.56 Dr. Angus Gowland (University College London) will hold a lecture on “Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe”. The day after, a master class will be organised to further investigate the concept of ‘religious melancholy’. The condition of ‘religious melancholy’…
Angus Gowland - Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe When and Where: Lecture: Thursday 19 February 2015, 16h-18h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.70 Master Class: Friday 20 February 2015, 10h-12.30h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.56 Dr. Angus Gowland (University College London) will hold a lecture on "Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe". The day after, a master class will be organised to further investigate the concept of 'religious melancholy'. The condition of ‘religious melancholy’ had its roots in ancient philosophy and medicine, but was fully theorised only in the seventeenth century, when it came to incorporate ideas about superstition, despair, and enthusiasm. This lecture will consider the place of religious melancholy within the intellectual culture of early modern Europe, and seek to address its role in contemporary religious and political controversies that have long seen as precursors to Enlightenment secularisation. Whilst the traditional view of the Enlightenment as an inherently irreligious movement has been much criticised, recent scholarship has nevertheless suggested that seventeenth-century psychology furnished new conceptions of human nature that were increasingly detached from Christian doctrine. With particular attention to English writings about religious melancholy in this period, I shall be asking how conceptions of the relationship between body, soul and spirit – and more broadly how contests between religious, medical, philosophical, and political authority – can be used to interrogate the nature and extent of secularisation in this aspect of early modern culture. About Angus Gowland: Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History. His broad interest is in early-modern European intellectual history, and more particularly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political thought, moral philosophy, psychology and medicine. Registration: You can register by sending an email to: h.westerink@ftr.ru.nl. Please be aware that there is only room for 30 participants. Organised by: The OZSW, the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science and the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen.

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Angus Gowland – Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe

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Lecture: Thursday 19 February 2015, 16h-18h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.70
Master Class: Friday 20 February 2015, 10h-12.30h, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmus building E.2.56

Dr. Angus Gowland (University College London) will hold a lecture on “Religious Melancholy and Secularisation in Early Modern Europe”. The day after, a master class will be organised to further investigate the concept of ‘religious melancholy’.

The condition of ‘religious melancholy’ had its roots in ancient philosophy and medicine, but was fully theorised only in the seventeenth century, when it came to incorporate ideas about superstition, despair, and enthusiasm. This lecture will consider the place of religious melancholy within the intellectual culture of early modern Europe, and seek to address its role in contemporary religious and political controversies that have long seen as precursors to Enlightenment secularisation. Whilst the traditional view of the Enlightenment as an inherently irreligious movement has been much criticised, recent scholarship has nevertheless suggested that seventeenth-century psychology furnished new conceptions of human nature that were increasingly detached from Christian doctrine. With particular attention to English writings about religious melancholy in this period, I shall be asking how conceptions of the relationship between body, soul and spirit – and more broadly how contests between religious, medical, philosophical, and political authority – can be used to interrogate the nature and extent of secularisation in this aspect of early modern culture.

About Angus Gowland:

Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History. His broad interest is in early-modern European intellectual history, and more particularly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political thought, moral philosophy, psychology and medicine.


Registration: You can register by sending an email to: h.westerink@ftr.ru.nl. Please be aware that there is only room for 30 participants.

Organised by: The OZSW, the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science and the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen.

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