Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe

From a variety of perspectives, the essays presented here explore the profound interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the ‘long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and ends with the Enlightenment in the early Eighteenth century. From the writings of Grotius on natural law and natural religion, and the speculative, libertin novels of Cyrano de Bergerac, to the better—known works of Descartes, Malebranche, Cudworth, Leibniz, Boyle, Spinoz...