This week saw the publication of Initiating the Millennium: The Avignon Society and Illuminism in Europe by Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer of the Department of History. The book is published by Oxford University Press and is the first in-depth, English-language study of the foremost initiatic and millenarian society in Europe in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth century. The publication of the book coincides with the beginning of Dr. Collis’ interdisciplinary history course on Magic and Western Esotericism in Europe from the Renaissance.

— Robert Collis, Visiting Assistant Professor, History