Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences

James A. T. Lancaster is an intellectual historian who received his PhD from the Warburg Institute in the University of London. He is currently a UQ Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and Affiliate Academic in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (HAPI) at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was a Visiting Lecturer and Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. As a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Francis Bacon critical edition, he has published articles and book chapters on the philosophical and religious thought of Francis Bacon. His recent publications include a co-edited special issue of Intellectual History Review on early modern anticlericalism: “Priestcraft. Early Modern Variations on the Theme of Sacerdotal Imposture”.

Richard Raiswell  is Associate Professor of History at the University of Prince Edward Island, a Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto), a member of the Executive Committee of  Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World , and a founding editor of the journal  Preternature  (Penn State). His research is concerned with questions about the construction and assimilation of knowledge in the late medieval and early modern periods, especially responses to the new empiricism in the fields of demonology and geography. Recent work includes  Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits  (forthcoming with Michelle Brock and David Winter), “Edward Terry and the Calvinist Geography of India,” in  Études anglaises and  The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe  (with Peter Dendle). He is currently working on a primary source reader on medieval demonology for the University of Toronto’s Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures series.