The literature on such a diverse subject is immense. This bibliography is simply a list of standard works by major thinkers and introductory essays that contain references for more detailed reading.
Allott, S., Alcuin of York: His Life and Letters, William Sessions Limited, York, 1974
Ankarloo, B. and Clark, C. (eds.), History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, vol. 4 & 5, University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania, 2002,1999
Anscombe, E. & Geach, P. T. (eds.), Descartes Philosophical Writings, Nelsons University Paperbacks, 1970
Aubrey, J., Brief Lives, A. Clark, ed. (1898), Penguin Books, London, 1972
Bacon, F., Essays, OUP, Oxford, 1921
Bacon, F., The Advancement of Learning, OUP, Oxford, 1974
Bainton, R. H., Hunted Heretic The Life and Death of Michael Servetus, Beacon Press, Boston, 1960
Ball, P., The Devils Doctor, Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006
Barzun, J., From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present (1656), HarperCollins, London, 2000
Bebbington, D. W., Evangelicalism in Modem Britain, A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, Unwin Hyman, London, 1989
Bell, S. G., The Great Fire of London in 1666, Bodley Head, London, 1923
Berry, R. J. (ed.), The Lion Handbook of Science and Christianity, Lion Hudson Plc, Oxford, 2012
Boswell, J., The Life of Samuel Johnson (abridged), Dent, London, 1909
Bouwsma, W. J., The Waning of the Renaissance, 15501640, New Haven, Connecticut, 2002
Boyle, R., The Works of Robert Boyle, M. Hunter and E. Davis, eds., Pickering & Chatto, London, 19992000
Braggae, F., A Full and Impartial Account of the Discovery of Witchcraft... (1712), Gale Ecco, 2010
Brant, S., The Ship of Fools, trs. Alexander Barclay, 1509
Brinkley, R.F., Arthurian Legends in the Seventeenth Century, Routledge, Oxford, 2016
Brooke, J. & Cantor, G., Reconstructing Nature, The Engagement of Science and Religion, Edinburgh, OUP, Oxford, 1998
Brown, C., Christianity and Western ThoughtA History of Philosophers, Ideas and Movements, Vol. 1, Intervarsity Press, Illinois, 1990
Bunge, W. van (ed.), The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 16501750, selected papers of a conference held at the Herzog August Bibliotik, Wolfenbttel 2223 March 2001, 2003
Burr, G.L. (ed.), The Witch Persecutions, in Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 18981912
Calvin, J., Avertissement Contre Lastrologie Quon Appelle Judiciaire, Geneva,
Caspar, M., Kepler, Dover Publications, New York, 1993
Chapman, A., Physicians, Plagues and ProgressThe History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics, Lion Hudson, Oxford, 2016
Chapman, A., StargazersCopernicus, Galileo, the Telescope and the Church, Lion Books, Oxford, 2014
Chenu, M .D., Toward Understanding Saint Thomas, Regnery Publishing, Washingon, 1964
Cohn, N., The Non-existent Society of Witches, in M. Marwick (ed.), Witchcraft and Sorcery, Penguin, London, 1986
Cohn, N., The Pursuit of the Millennium, Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists, OUP, Oxford, 1957
Copernicus, N., De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, trs. E. Roan, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1978
Cottingham, J., Stoothoff, R. & Murdoch, D. (eds.), The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, CUP, Cambridge, 1985
Cottreet, B., Calvin-A Biography, Westminster John Knox Press, Kentucky, 2007
Creham, F. J., The Bible in the Roman Catholic Church from Trent to the Present Day in Greenslade, S .L. (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Bible The West from the Reformation to the Present Day, CUP, Cambridge, 1963
Dewhurst, K., Dr Thomas Sydenham (16241689) His Life and Original Writings, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London, 1966
Dickens, A. G., Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York 15091558, OUP, Oxford, 2012
Dunn, J., Locke, OUP, Oxford, 1984
Edmunds, D. & Eidinow, J., Rousseaus Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, Faber, London, 2006
Edwards, P. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan, New York, 1972
Evans, R. J. W., Rudolf II and His World A Study of Intellectual History 15761612, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973
Evelyn, J., The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, OUP, Oxford, 1959
Foscarini, P., Epistle concerning the Pythagorian and Copernican Opinion of the Mobility of the Earth and Stability of the Sun... in Mathematical Collections and Translations, trs. T. Salusbury, 1661
Franklin, B., The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, New York, 1888
Fulbrook, M., Piety and Politics, Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Wrttemberg and Prussia, CUP, Cambridge, 1983
Fuller, N., Great Books of the Western World, XXV, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago, 1952
Galilei, G., A Discourse Concerning Two New Sciences, Dover Books, New York, 1954
Galilei, G., Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, trs. S. Drake, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1953
Gawthrop, R., Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia, CUP, Cambridge, 1993
Gijswijt-Hofstra, M., Levack, B. P. & Porter, R. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 5, The Athlone Press, London, 2001
Gurevich, A. J., Categories of Medieval Culture, Routledge, Oxford, 1985
Guthrie, D., A History of Medicine, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 1945
Harrison, G. B., A Jacobean Journal Being a Record of Those Things Most Talked About During the Years 16031606, Routledge, London, 1941
Harsnett, S., A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603), EEBO Editions, 2010
Heywood, T., The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (1638), Scholars Choice, New York, 2015
Hill, C., Milton and the English Revolution, Faber, London, 1977
Hill, C., Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution, University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin, 1980
Hobbes, T., Works, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984
Huizinga, J., The Waning of the Middle Ages Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Edward Arnold, London, 1967
Hume, D., Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge, OUP, Oxford, 1975
Hume, D., The Natural History of Religion, ed. H. E. Root, A&C Black, London, 1956
Hyde, E., A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr Hobbess Book entitled Leviathan, 1673
Jaki, S. L., The Ash Wednesday Supper by Giordano Bruno, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1969
James IV of Scotland, Daemonologie, Informe of a dialogue, 1603
Janowski, Z., Cartesian Theodicy: Descartes Quest for Certitude, Springer Publishing, New York, 2000
Jensen, H. J. (ed.), The Sensational Restoration, Indiana University Press, Indiana, 1996
Jones, W. T., Masters of Political Thought: Machiavelli to Bentham, Vol. 2, George G. Harrup, London, 1960
Kempis, T., The Imitation of Christ, trs. W. Benham, [n.pub], 2016
Kuhn, T.,
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