HSTEU205 FINAL EXAM: Preliminary list as of 11/18
                                       List will be updated after Thanksgiving

This is a general list of topics for review. Not all the topics would be
asked as ID's. Final ID list will be updated in last week of quarter.

See review sheet for essays, and more general topics to be covered.

Basic text: Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe     
Be familiar with information and topics covered by Levack.

IDS FOR FINAL EXAM: dates are useful

Kramer & Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum

Learned magical tradition:    Key of Solomon
      Hermetic tradition   
       Astrological magic  
      Marsilio Ficino, Books of Life
      Botticelli paintings as “Ficinian talismans” (will get to this)
      Cornelius Agrippa von Netesheim, De Occulta Philosophia

Reformation:

What aspects of Catholicism are rejected by the Reformation?
How does definition of “superstition” change in Reformation?
What was impact of Reformation on witch trials? 

Martin Luther, Teufelsbucher (Devil’s book)

Johann Brenz, On Hailstorms    1536

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Carolina: Criminal Constitution of Holy Roman Empire 1532                  

Johann Weyer, On the Illusions of Demons 1563

Frederick Von Spee, Cautio Criminalis (Precautions for Prosecutors) 1631

England: witchcraft statutes              
English common law, accusatory procedure

Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft      1584
James I Stuart, Daemonologie             
Matthew Hopkins, The Discovery of Witches

Calvinism  Geneva: John Calvin
                               plague spreading witch trials
                 English Puritanism       John Darrell exorcist
                 Scotland:
                 Scottish Presbyterianism Consistory 
                 James VI of Scotland, witch trials

France: vauderie

parlement of Paris (appeals court) vs local jurisdictions (examples?)

1624 Arrêt of parlement of Paris on mandatory appeal of w/c cases

French w/c theoriests:
Jean Bodin, The Demonomania of Sorcerers    1580
Henri Bouget, Discourse on Sorcerers          
Nicolas Remy, Demonolatry           (Duchy of Lorraine)
Pierre de Lancre, Tableau of the Inconstancy of the Fallen Angels
          Trials in Labourd, Pyrenees

Loudon: Urbain Grandier         

Spanish Inquisition           Auto da fé
Suprema, Supreme Council      Edict of Grace
Fra Alonso Salazar            Edict of Faith
Logrono witch trials          Sambenito

Roman Inquisition            benandanti 
Girolamo Menghi, Flagellum Daemonum: ecclesiastical medicine

Salem:
Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences Relating to W/C & Possession
Increase Mather, Cases of Conscience c. Evil Spirits Impersonating Men

Salem village: Samuel Parris, Putnams, Porters
                     Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse and others
Spectral evidence, ergotism

Scientific Revolution: empiricism, natural law, mechanical philosophy
Copernicanism: heliocentric universe (vs geocentric universe)
Galileo: astronomical observations, experiments on motion
Newton: Principia Mathematica  three laws of motion, inertia, gravity
            Calculus as language of creation
Descartes: Cartestian philosophy   

Skeptics: Montaigne, Malebranche, Gassendi
          Pierre Bayle, Historical & Critical Dictionary
          Balthasar Bekker, The Enchanted World

Cambridge Platonists on the reality of spirits