Reclaiming the Enchanted Mind: Ioan P. Couliano’s "Eros and Magic in the Renaissance" Challenges Modernity’s Flat Worldview

Mythology and Folklore

Main Facts In an era increasingly defined by the objective, the measurable, and the purely rational, the notion that human imagination and desire could possess tangible power over reality seems, at best, a quaint historical curiosity, at worst, an archaic superstition. Yet, according to Ioan P. Couliano’s groundbreaking work, Eros and Magic i