Lumen Christi Institute – Master Class, Carlos Eire

A master Class on “Catholic and Protestant Reformations and the Genealogy of Modernity” 

with Carlos Eire (Yale University)

presented by the Lumen Christi Institute

Yale Club of New York City, 50 Vanderbilt Ave.

To register and for more information visit: https://www.lumenchristi.org/events/846

Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He holds a PhD from Yale University, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a strong focus on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; and the history of the supernatural, and the history of death. He is the author of War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to Calvin (1986); From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain (1995); A Very Brief History of Eternity (2010); and co-author of Jews, Christians, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (1997). His latest book, Reformations: The Early Modern World (2016) won the R.R. Hawkins Prize for Best Book of the Year from the American Publishers Association, as well as the award for Best Book in the Humanities.