Peter A Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4787003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter A Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter A |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spiritual and Medical Melancholy in Lutheran Responses to Johann Weyer’s Criticism of the Witch Trials
This article examines responses from Lutheran pastors, theologians, and physicians to the arguments given by Johann Weyer in 1563 that those women who confessed to a pact with the devil suffered from melancholy and were thus not responsible for their acts. Weyer’s conception of melancholy was a medical one, yet among Lutheran pastors and theologians the concept of a spiritual form of melancholy emerged that came from religious sources. The articl…
The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper
Reviewed by: The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper Peter A. Morton Roper, Lyndal – The Witch in the Western Imagination. Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Pp. 240. Historians of the early modern witch trials have worked over the past couple of decades to reveal an underlying rationality in demonology, showing it to be a reflection of the ways in which Europeans structured their society and reinforced val…
Laura Stokes. Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430–1530
The witch hunts of early modern Europe first began in the western Alpine mountains in the first half of the fifteenth century. It was at this same time and place that ecclesiastical fears of devil-worshipping sects, stemming from the Inquisition's pursuit of heretics, merged with common fears of harmful magic. Historians have argued that it was the emergence of the composite idea of a witch as both devil-worshipper and practitioner of maleficium …
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Laura Stokes. Demons of Urban Reform: Early European Witch Trials and Criminal Justice, 1430–1530
The witch hunts of early modern Europe first began in the western Alpine mountains in the first half of the fifteenth century. It was at this same time and place that ecclesiastical fears of devil-worshipping sects, stemming from the Inquisition's pursuit of heretics, merged with common fears of harmful magic. Historians have argued that it was the emergence of the composite idea of a witch as both devil-worshipper and practitioner of maleficium …
The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper
Reviewed by: The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper Peter A. Morton Roper, Lyndal – The Witch in the Western Imagination. Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Pp. 240. Historians of the early modern witch trials have worked over the past couple of decades to reveal an underlying rationality in demonology, showing it to be a reflection of the ways in which Europeans structured their society and reinforced val…
Spiritual and Medical Melancholy in Lutheran Responses to Johann Weyer’s Criticism of the Witch Trials
This article examines responses from Lutheran pastors, theologians, and physicians to the arguments given by Johann Weyer in 1563 that those women who confessed to a pact with the devil suffered from melancholy and were thus not responsible for their acts. Weyer’s conception of melancholy was a medical one, yet among Lutheran pastors and theologians the concept of a spiritual form of melancholy emerged that came from religious sources. The articl…
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