Lecture Outlines to be printed before lecture
Wk 10 Reading:
Please note change in page numbers for Kors & Peters add 425-429 (429-35 optional)
Levack, Ch 8, 3rd ed, pp. 252-288 Ch 9 3rd ed, pp. 289-308 (2cd ed 233-260);
Kors & Peters, pp. 402-406 (Montaigne); pp. 425-429 (Von Spee), pp. 438-444 (Bayle)
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
Tues 5/31 Why Women? Gender Issues & Statistics in European Witch Trials
Slide lecture: Demons and Witches in 16th Century European Art
Th 6/2 Critics and Skeptics: Scientific Revolution & rejection of witch beliefs in 17th Century Europe
18-20th Century: What happened to witch beliefs after the end of witch trials?
Fri Discussion: Critics and Skeptics in 16-17th Century
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 5/22 Possession and Exorcism in France and Italy
The Basque Trials and the Spanish Inquisition
Th 5/23 Italy: The Roman Inquisition: witchcraft, superstition & the benandanti
Slide lecture: Demons, women and witches
Frk 5/24 Discussion : Inquisitions in Italy & Spain: why are they soft on witches? & the benandanti
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Week 8 Links to documents in xerox packet:
Article from <History Today> Midelfort on Germany
Readings on Salem: Medical and Psychological theories of witchcraft
Tu 5/17 Witch Trials in Germany
Possession and Exorcism
Th 5/19 Salem Village Witches 1692
Puritan Intellectuals on Witchcraft
Fri 5/20 Discussion of Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed
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Week 7
Primary trial document: Trial of Walpurga Hausmann
Articles from <History Today> on specific regions:
Christina Larner on Scotland and English
Monter France
Tu 5/10 Social Context of English village trials
Witch Trials in Scotland
Th 5/12 Witch Trials in France and Switzerland
Fri 5/13 Discussion of Witch Trial documents: England, France, Germany
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Week 6 Link on English WC Statutes
Tu 5/3 CLASS CANCELLED: Professor sick
Th 5/5 Impact of Reformation on Witch Beliefs and Trials
The 16th C. Witchcraft Debate: lecture by Jason Shattuck
English Witch Trials and Statistics on English Trials: lecture by Albert Miller
F 5/6 Discussion: The 16th C. Witchcraft Debatel
Week 5
Tu 4/26 MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS: NO LECTURE
Th 4/28 15th C. Renaissance: The Learned Magical Tradition
The Reformation of the 16th C. and the Faust Legend
F 4/29 SECTION DISCUSSION: Christopher Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus
Reading for section is Marlowe's play (Wootton edition, pp. 1-66;
this edition also contains The English Faust Book which is not assigned
but may be used for optional second paper topic)
Week 4 Link to chart on 14-15th C. sorcery vs witch trials (Richard Kieckhefer)
Tu 4/19 Finish lectures on 14th C. sorcery trials and Jewish sorcery accusations
15th C. Witch Trials begin in Switzerland (later Italy, Burgundy (France)
Th 4/21 Additional outline on Climatic Change from medieval to 17th century
Th 4/21 Kramer and Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum 1487
IN CLASS MIDTERM REVIEW: print out and bring midterm review sheet
F 4/22 SECTION DISCUSSION: Malleus Maleficarum on how to try a witch
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Week 3
Links: Tu: Link to Aquinas' quaestio (question): Whether God exists?
Link to Aquinas on the production of woman
Tu 4/12 Scholasticism and Demonology: Thomas Aquinas on demons
Sorcery and Politics in 14th Century Europe
Th 4/14 Scapegoating: Demonization of the Jews
Women in Middle Ages: Attitudes and images (SLIDES)
F 4/15 SECTION DISCUSSION: What image of women emerges in sermons, treatises?
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Week 2 ** Links to two reading selections please print for class (instead of class handouts)
1) Book of Job: Jewish statement of problem of evil for Tues
2) Early medieval witch beliefs for Thurs
Tu 4/5 The Problem of Evil: from Jewish Bible to early Christians
Christianity and Paganism: The conversion of Europe
Th 4/7 Early medieval witch beliefs in Church law and secular law: ** For first paper topic**
Heresy and the 13th C. Inquisition
Fri 4/8 SECTION DISCUSSION:
What did people believe about witches in early Middle Ages?
Week 1
Tues 3/29 Terms and categories for the course
Religion, magic, witchcraft and sorcery