They Flew

In this book, Carlos Eire examines how early modern culture, despite its growing embrace of scientific thinking, grappled with seemingly impossible phenomena like levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft. Through firsthand accounts and case studies involving saints and other figures, Eire explores the blurred boundaries between the natural and supernatural during a pivotal historical era. The work challenges assumptions about the transition to modernity and encourages reflection on different perceptions of reality that continue to resonate today.