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36 (London, 2000) Ginzburg, C., The Night Battles : Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries (London, 1983). Goodare, J., ‗Women and the witch-hunt in Scotland‘, Social History, 23 (1998) --------, The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context (2002) Gregory, A., ‘Witchcraft, Politics and Good ‗Neighbourhood‘ in Early Seventeenth Century Rye‘, Past and Present 133 (1991) Henningsen, G., The witches' advocate : Basque witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition, 1609-1614 (Reno, 1980). Hutton, R., ‗Anthropological and historical approaches to witchcraft: potential for a new collaboration?‘, Historical Journal, 47 (2004), 413-434. Lehmann, H., ‗The Persecution of Witches as the Restoration of Order. Germany 1590-1650‘, Central European History 21 (1988) Levack, B., The Witch-hunt in Early Modern Europe (London, 1987). Levack, B., ‗The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-62‘, Journal of British Studies 19 (1980) Midelfort H.C., Witch hunting in South West Germany 1562-1684 (London, 1972). "Heartland of the Witchcraze: Central and Northern Europe‖, History Today 31 (1981). "Witchcraft and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Germany: The Formation and Consequences of an Orthodoxy", Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 62 (1971). [available from HLP] Monter, E.W, Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe (Brighton, 1983). European Witchcraft (London, 1969). "European Witchcraft: A Moment of Synthesis?" HJ 31 (1988) "The Historiography of European Witchcraft: Progress and Prospects" Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2 (1972). "Witchcraft in France and Italy", History Today 30 (1980). Roper, L., Oedipus and Devil. Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe (London, 1984). Rowlands, A., "Witchcraft and Popular Religion in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber‖, in R.W. Scribner and T. Johnson, eds. Popular Religion in Germany and Central Europe, 1400-1800 (New York, 1996). Scarre, G, Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe (London, 1987). Scribner, R.W., ‗Sorcery, Superstition and Society : the Witch of Urach 1529‘, PCPM ch.12 "Witchcraft and Judgement in Reformation Germany", History Today 40 (1990). Waite, G., Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke, 2003) Seminar 3 : Witchcraft : Trials and Victims Summary Works like the Malleus Maleficarum did much to influence the way in which the people of early modern Europe viewed magic and witchcraft. Even if we are cautious in our assessment of the impact that that Mallues had upon popular, and even elite attitudes, the work has gone down in history for the way in which it associated women with witchcraft. The views expressed in the Malleus were not unique to its authors,
37 and the majority of those who were tried and executed for witchcraft were women. The prevalence of women among the victims of the witch-trials has been the cause of much debate in recent decades, leading some writers to see the accusation of women as part of the ‗ongoing mechanisms for the social control of women‘ (Hester). From our earlier discussions on the historiography of early modern witchcraft, it is clear that this is only one of a number of possible explanations for the persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Having looked at literature on witchcraft in this period, and at the views of historians in recent research, in this session we will make more use of the records of the trials of witches, and test out the various hypotheses at a local and individual level. Seminar Preparation It may be useful to refer back to the extracts from the Malleus and other tracts from first week. In this session, we will look in detail at a number of specific witch-trials in the seminar. Examples are provided in the gobbet handbook, but your preparation for this week is to find a witch (!) or an account of an early modern witch trial, and bring the relevant primary sources to class. There are some accounts of trials in the Malleus, a few in the Kors & Peters volume Witchcraft in Europe 1100-1700, and of course plenty to be found on the web. Look at the course homepage (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhs99hlp/ritual.html) or at witchcraft links on my other course pages (particularly the Part One Approaches to History course) If you would like any information copied for the rest of the group, drop it off by Tuesday afternoon. Questions for Class Discussion Why were women so prominent among the accusers in witch-trials? What light does the case of ‗your‘ witch shed on the interpretations of the trials that we discussed in week 2? How closely does ‗your‘ witch conform to the models set out in the literature? What are the most important / common features of witchcraft allegations? How reliable is the evidence for ‗your‘ trial? Compared to other types? How much popular support / interest is there in the witch-hunt? How can we explain the rise and fall of levels of persecution, and the geography and chronology of persecution? Is the witchcraze an event of cultural and historical importance? Primary Sources The Examination and Confession of Certain Witches (1566) The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches (1589) A Tryal of Witches (1662) Secondary Reading Ankarloo, B., Henningsen, G., Early Modern Witchcraft, Centres and Peripheries (Oxford, 1989).
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