4. The Good Life: Religion

In this episode we discuss the role of faith in early modern Europe and what it menat to have a 'good' soul. We talk about the Reformation, worship, illness, suffering, martyrdom, Providence, and stoic principles. Our examples include a spiritual diary by Yorkshire gentlewoman Alice Thornton and fragments of the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal's musings on religion.

Works/sources mentioned

Fiona Mozley, Hot Stew.

Alice Thornton, My First Booke of My Life, Raymond Anselment (ed) (University of Nebraska Press: 2014).

The Witch (2015).

Blaise Pascal, 'Pensées', Fragment 168, 'divertissement' (Ferreyrolles and Sellier edition).

Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World Project at the University of Manchester

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