Lecture Outlines to be printed before
lecture
Week 10 Monday: Memorial Day Holiday
Weds 5/31 Decline of Witch Trials: Judicial Procedure, Scientific Revolution
Modern attitudes to witch beliefs: 18-20th C.
Fri 6/2 Discussion of critics and skeptics
Week 9 Reading for this week: Kors and Peters, pp.
407-419 on Spain and Salazar
Italy: Links on the benandanti: 1) Carlo Ginzburg <Night Battles> Part 1, pp. 1-20
2) Carlo Ginzburg <Night Battles> Part 2 pp. 21-32, 69-73
3) Benandanti Trial Transcripts (these are in xerox packet) pp. 147-171
Italy:O'Neil article on magical remedies in Italy (in xerox
packet)
O'Neil
article on superstition
Spain: Henningsen on Spanish Inquisition, from <History Today> in xerox packet
Salazar: Inquisition report on Basque witch trials (one page only)
Week 9 Lectures:
Mon 5/22 Italy:
The Roman Inquisition: witchcraft,
superstition & the benandanti
Weds 5/24 The Basque Trials and the Spanish Inquisition
Fr Discussion : The Benandanti: "those who walk well" (Friuli - NE Italy)
Week 8 Links to documents in xerox packet:
Readings on Salem: Medical and Psychological theories of witchcraft
Mon 5/15 Possession and Exorcism in England France & Italy
Weds 5/17 Salem
Village Witches 1692
Puritan
Intellectuals on Witchcraft
Fri 5/19 Discussion of Documents on Salem Trials in Godbeer volume
Week
7
Primary trial document: Trial of Walpurga Hausman
Articles from <History Today> on specific regions:
Christina
Larner on Scotland and England
Monter
on France Midelfort
on Germany
Mon 5/8 Witch
Trials in Scotland
Witch Trials in France and Switzerland
Weds 5/10 Witch Trials in Germany
Discussion of Witch Trial documents: England, France, Germany
Week 6
Mon 5/1 The 16th C. Witch Debate: Brenz, Weyer, Bodin, Scot
Weds 5/3 English Witch Trials Link to Texts of English WC Laws
Fri 5/5 Discussion of 16th C. Witch Debate Documents
Week 5
Mon 4/24 MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS: NO LECTURE
Weds 4/26 Renaissance Magical Writings: the Hermetic Corpus & Ficino
Reformation and the Faust Legend
Fri 4/28 Section Discussion on Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Week 4 Link to
chart on 14-15th C. sorcery vs witch trials (Richard Kieckhefer)
M 4/17 Finish lecture on
14th C. sorcery trials
Scapegoating:
the Demonization of the Jews
15th C. Witch Trials begin in Switzerland (later Italy, Burgundy (France)
W 4/19 Additional outline on Climatic
Change from medieval to 17th century
Kramer and Sprenger Malleus Maleficarum 1487
MIDTERM REVIEW: print out and bring midterm review sheet
F SECTION DISCUSSION: Malleus Maleficarum on how to try a witch
Week 3
Links: Tu: Link
to Aquinas' quaestio (question): Whether God
exists?
Link
to Aristotle and Aquinas on the production of woman
M 4/12
Scholasticism
and Demonology: Thomas Aquinas on demons
Sorcery and
Politics in 14th Century Europe
W 4/14 Scapegoating:
Demonization of the Jews
Women in
the Middle Ages: Attitudes and images (SLIDES)
F 4/15 SECTION DISCUSSION: What image of women emerges in sermons, treatises?
Week 2 ** Links to two reading selections please print before class (will be used in lecture)
1) Book of Job: Jewish statement of problem of evil for Mon
2) Early medieval witch beliefs for Weds
M 4/3 The Problem of Evil: from Jewish Bible to early Christians
Christianity and Paganism: The conversion of Europe
W 4/5 Early Medieval Witch Beliefs in Church Law and secular law ** For first paper topic**
Heresy and the 13th C. Medieval Inquisition
Fri 4/7 SECTION DISCUSSION:
What did people believe about witches in the early middle ages?
Corrector of Rustics, K&P pp. 63-67, espec paragraph 170, p. 67,
Cohn (rev. ed) Chap. 9 -- on night witch or striga
Week 1
Mon 3/27 Terms and categories for the course
Selection from Diane Purkiss <The Witch in History>
Weds 3/29 Religion, magic, witchcraft and sorcery
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Please note change in page numbers for Kors &
Peters add 425-429 (429-35 optional)
Kors
& Peters, pp. 402-406 (Montaigne); pp. 425-429 (Von Spee), pp. 438-444
Link
to Skeptic Malebranche (4
pages -- to be posted Tuesday)
Optional: Article
by Lyndal Roper, "Witchcraft and Fantasy" -- will be discussed in
lecture
and
of interest for women, gender & psychological theories of w/c
18-20th
Century: What happened to witch beliefs after the end of witch trials?
Week 9 Reading for this week: Kors and Peters, pp.
407-419 on Spain and Salazar
Spain: Henningsen
on Spanish Inquisition, from <History
Today> in xerox packet
Salazar: Inquisition report on Basque witch trials (one page only)
Italy: Links on the benandanti: 1) Carlo Ginzburg <Night Battles> Part 1, pp. 1-20
2) Carlo Ginzburg <Night Battles> Part 2 pp. 21-32, 69-73
3) Benandanti Trial Transcripts (these are in xerox packet) pp. 147-171
Italy:O'Neil article on magical remedies in Italy (in xerox
packet)
O'Neil
article on superstition
Tu Possession
and Exorcism in France and Italy
The
Basque Trials and the Spanish Inquisition
Th Italy:
The Roman Inquisition: witchcraft,
superstition
Slide
lecture: Demons, women and witches
Fr Discussion : The Benandanti: "those who walk well" (Friuli - NE Italy)
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