Saturday, January 10, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

81. Nature and Magic in Early Modern Central Europe
Marriott, Wardman Towers, Nathan Hale Room

Joint session with the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History and the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Howard Louthan, University of Florida
Papers:

Lutheran Astrologers and the Campaign against Superstition, 1540–1600
Robin Barnes, Davidson College

Ann Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Holy Roman Empire
Tara Nummedal, University of Southern California

Astrology, War, and the Turkish Threat in Early Sixteenth-Century Vienna
Darin Hayton, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Carina L. Johnson, Pitzer College