LECTURE OUTLINES HSTEU205
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notes.
Week XI Reading:
XEROX PACKET #8 Skeptics (Cyrano & Malebranche)
Kors & Peters,
pp. 401-06, 429-35, 438-444
Mon 12/4 Decline
of Witch Trials: Judicial & Intellectual Factors
including
Scientific Revolution of 17th C
Tues 12/5 Critics and Skeptics on Witch Beliefs 17th C
Weds 12/6 18th
and 19th Century Interpretations of W/C:
Enlightenment and Romanticism
Thu 12/7 Conclusion:
Modern witch hunting analogues
Review
for Final: Please bring questions & print out
both general & ID
review sheet
Fri 12/8 Last
Section: Skeptics and final review
Week X Finish
Boyer & Nissenbaum for Friday section
Xerox packet: Lyndal Roper article: "W/C & Fantasy"
K&P, Salazar, 407-419; Xerox packet #6 Spain (Henningsen)
Mon 11/27 Salem
Village Witch Trials:Historical interpretations
Reading in Xerox packet on Salem
Tues 11/28 Spain:
The Basque trials and the Spanish Inquisition
K&P, Salazar, 407-419; Xerox packet #6 Spain (Henningsen)
Due to weather problems, I am posting my notes for this lecture.
Professor's notes for Spain lecture
Weds 11/29 Why Women? Gender Issues in European Witch Trials
Thurs 11/30 SLIDES: Image of the Witch in 16th Century Art
Fri 12/1 Section Discussion: Boyer & Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed
Week IX Reading:
Boyer & Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed
XEROX
PACKET #7 SALEM (Medical theories)
Kors
& Peters, 367-70 (Cotton Mater), 436-37 (Salem jurors)
Mon 11/20 Benandanti Discussion (continued from Thursday 11/16)
Tues 11/21 Salem Village Witch Trials: Social & Economic Tensions:
Weds 11/22 Intellectual background to Salem trials: Increase & Cotton Mather
Th-F 11/23-24 Thanksgiving
Holiday: No Class
Week VIII Reading:
Ginzburg, Night Battles, pp 1-39, 69-97, 147-171
plus
readings below for each lecture
Mon 11/13 Possession
and exorcism in France, England & Italy
Xerox packet: O'Neil article "Sacerdote ovvero Strione"
T 11/14 Roman
Inquisition trials in Italy: heresy vs "superstition" vs w/c
Xerox
packet: O'Neil article "Magical Healing"
W 11/15 Benandanti
as “counter-witches”: see Tuesday outline above
Ginzburg Night Battles, pp 1-39, 69-97, 147-171
Fri 11/17 SECTION:
Comparative witch trials: England, Germany, France
How
to read and analyze witch trial documents
Week VII
Mon 11/6 English
Witch Debate:
Reginald Scot
vs James I (James VI of Scotland)
Witch Hunting in Scotland
Tues 11/7 Witch Hunting in Germany
(1): legal procedures & chronology
Weds 11/8 Witch Hunting in Germany
(2): context & climate
Thurs 11/9 Witch Hunting in France
and Switzerland
Fri 11/10 NO SECTIONS: VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY
Week VI
Mon 10/30 Reformation: Chronology
and Luther's comments on witches
Notes on Halloween and Jack
O'Lantern by special request
Tues 10/31 16th C. Witch Debate: Brenz, Weyer, Bodin
Weds 11/1 English
witch trials: a separate case?
Bring English statutes
(in xerox packet & on e-reserve)
Thurs 11/2
Social Setting of English Witch Trials (new;
added 11/2, link now fixed)
Statistics on English Witch
Trials (from in-classs overhead)
Fri 11/3 SECTION:
16th C witch debate: Weyer, Bodin, Brenz, &
Scot
Week V
Tues 10/23 Natural
magic in the Renaissance learned tradition
Weds 10/24 Reformation theology & the myth of Faust
Thurs 10/25 SLIDE LECTURE: Images of demons in 15-16th C. art
Fri 10/26 SECTION
DISCUSSION:
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:
Focus
on image
of the sorcerer in Reformation Germany & England
Week IV
Mon 10/16 14th
Century: from heresy trials to sorcery trials (cont.)
Tues 10/17 Rise
of witch trials in 15th C.: Switzerland and Johannes Nider
Weds 10/18 The
Inquisitor as Witch Hunter: Kramer & Sprenger, O.P:
Malleus
Maleficarum, 1487: Theory & practice of witch-hunting
Thurs 10/19 Learned
vs popular elements of witch beliefs & trials - 15th C.
MIDTERM
REVIEW PLEASE BRING REVIEW SHEET TO
LECTURE
Fri 10/20 SECTION
DISCUSSION: Malleus
on how to conduct a witch trial:
Review
for Midterm (see
last Friday link for questions)
Week III
Mon 10/9 Rise
of Medieval Inquisition (cont. from Thurs)
Scholasticism,
Thomas Aquinas & Diabolical Pact
Tues 10/10 14th
Century: from heresy trials to sorcery trials
Weds 10/11 Scapegoating:
images of Jews in Middle Ages
Thurs 10/12 Images
of Women in the Middle Ages
Fri 10/13 SECTION
DISCUSSION: The Malleus Maleficarum on
Women
Week II
Mon 10/2 The Problem of Evil: Judaic, Classical and Christian versions
Tues 10/3 Christianity, Paganism and the Conversion of Europe
Weds 10/4
Early medieval witchcraft legislation and the Canon
Episcopi
Handout
#3 Early Medieval Witch Beliefs
[will
also be handed out in class]
Thurs 10/4 13th
C. Heresies and the Medieval Inquisition
Fri 10/5 SECTION MEETING:
Discuss early w/c texts & Canon Episcopi:
BRING 1)
KORS & PETERS
2)
HANDOUT
#3
3) Questions
for discussion in section: PRINT OUT
Week I
Weds 9/27 Introduction
to Course: Terms & Categories
Thurs 9/28
1) Witchcraft
as a Belief System
2) 20th Century Interpretations of European
Witchcraft
- on Cohn Ch. 8; take this outline
to section on Friday
Fri 9/29 SECTION
MEETING: Discuss Norman Cohn, Ch. 1 & 8
Handout
#1 Diane Purkiss (available Thursday)
Weekend:
Handout #2 Job excerpts: click on link, print out and
read
for Monday lecture (no actual handout given in class)