HIS389H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: De Praestigiis Daemonum, Carmelites, Lambert Daneau
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Bodin- great french intellectuals, learned man, very well educated, trained as a lawyer, believer in witchcraft, raises a lot of interesting questions by being a person who is intelligent, sophisticated etc. He believes more than some of his contemporaries. Angers, in anjou- birth place of bodin, a bit early for registers to record birth dates, pretty sure of dates though, it is a very common name though (bodin) another in trouble for heresy in paris. His family is comfortably off, his father was part of the governing class of. Carmelite- on track to becoming a monk, does this in his mid-teens, studies theology at carmelite convent and goes on to university of. Paris where he studies theology, he leaves the carmelites probably before he becomes a full monk. Toulouse of south of france- goes here (south of france) to study. Law, especially roman law, after law training he is an editor of humanist texts then gets work as a lawyer.
