A tour of Early Modern minds brought to life by Darren Oldridge

Fashion in the 1970’s. Did people really think they looked good in this stuff???

The ruins of Bury St. Edmunds Abby

Martin Luther

Ducking stool

St. Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Medieval authorities

Gibbet Pillory Hanging a horse (not real!)

Autun Cathedral west door carvings

Sabbats

Witchcraft trials & executions

Werewolves- Aka, lycanthropes

Witch turned werewolf attacking travelers. Woodcut by Hans Weiditz. Strassburg, 1517.

French, 1613 German, 1489 French, 1589 Witches flying

Exorcisms

The devil & demons

The Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. He is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law

Hairshirt

“I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” -Groucho Marx Page 147

Anti-Catholic woodcuts