Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Powerful Magicians of Renaissance Europe
Wed, Oct 22
|Guilford Hall Brewery
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “The Powerful Magicians of Renaissance Europe,” a look at how supernatural beliefs drove leading thinkers in a time of exploration and progress, with Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University and teacher of courses on art, magic and science
Time & Location
Oct 22, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Event Details
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “The Powerful Magicians of Renaissance Europe,” a look at how supernatural beliefs drove leading thinkers in a time of exploration and progress, with Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University and teacher of courses on art, magic and science during that era.
[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]
The decades around 1500 were marked by intense exploration of new ways of life. While some thinkers of that era, such as Machiavelli and Leonardo, remain well-known, largely forgotten is another set of individuals who were every bit as brilliant and perhaps as famous in their day. They included monks and medical men, philosophers and inventors, and together they crafted a new set of ways to understand and control the universe. They gave an ancient name, “magic,” to the set of disciplines that they brought together…