They Flew: (Record no. 13939)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780300259803
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
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050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BF1385.E45
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Eire, Carlos M. N.
Relator term Author
9 (RLIN) 75995
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title They Flew:
Remainder of title A History of the Impossible
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven, London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2023
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 492 p;
Dimensions 25cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores-such as why and how "impossibility" is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science-have resonance and lessons for our time"
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Levitation.
9 (RLIN) 75996
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mysticism
General subdivision Christianity.
9 (RLIN) 75997
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Supernatural.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Non-fiction Asian University for Women Library Asian University for Women Library General Stacks 11/03/2025 Kamal Ahmad (AUWSF)   BF1385 .E45 031335 16/03/2025 16/03/2025 Books