HSTEU 305 COURSE READINGS PACKET

 

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#1.  Witchcraft Debate of Sixteenth Century:                              pp. 2-22

        Johann Brenz, On Hailstorms (1539)
        Johann Weyer, De Praestigiis Daemonum (On the Illusions of Demons) 1563
        Jean Bodin, Demonomanie des Sorcièrs (1580)

 

 

#2.  English and Scottish Witchcraft                                    pp. 23-33


       Christina Larner, "Witch Beliefs & Witch Hunting in England & Scotland"
       English witchcraft statutes of 1542, 1563 and 1604, from
            Barbara Rosen (ed.) Witchcraft, pp. 51-58 [BF1581/R6]
       Matthew Hopkins, The Discovery of Witches, [BF1581/S8/1982]

 

 

#3.  Witch Hunting in Germany, France & Italy                            pp. 34-59


      H.C. Erik Midelfort, "Heartland of the Witchcraze: Central Europe"          
      Transcript of trial against German midwife:
           "Judgement on Witch Walpurga Hausmannin," 1587
       William Monter, "French & Italian Witchcraft" 
       Carlo Ginzburg, Transcript of benandanti trials, 1575-1581, from his
            The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in 16-17th C
            (1983)  pp. 147-171


#4.  Healers, Midwives and "Lying-in-Maids" as witch suspects           pp. 60-85


       Lyndal Roper, "W/C & Fantasy," from Oedipus & the Devil [HQ1075.5/E85R66]
       M. O'Neil, "Magical Healing, Love Magic & Inquisition" from
          Stephen Haliczer Inq & Society in Early Modern Europe (l987), pp 88-113
                        [BX1712/I576/1987b]

 

#5.  Remedies to Witchcraft in Catholicism                              pp. 86-105

     Mary O'Neil, "Sacerdote ovvero strione":  Ecclesiastical & Superstitious
      Remedies in 16th C Italy," Steven Kaplan (ed) Understanding Popular
            Culture, pp. 53-83 [CB203/U54/1984]    
     Mary O'Neil, "Superstition" in  Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade
            Vol 14, pp. 163-166 [BL31/E46/1987]
                 

 

#6. Spanish Trials                                                     pp. 105-109

      Gustav Henningsen, "Greatest Witch-Trial of All: Navarre 1609-1614"

     

 

#7.  Survivals of Witch Beliefs                                        pp. 110-111
 

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