WEEK 1  INTRODUCTION: THEMES, ISSUES, DEFINITION OF TERMS                                   

Reading: Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, Ch 1 (on the stereotyped charges), pp. 1-15;
                                                             Ch 8 (on Margaret Murray), pp. 144-161
                 Levack, Ch 1 "Introduction,"  3rd edition, pp. 1-29   (2cd ed pp. 1-26)

T 3/29  Introduction to course:  What was witchcraft?  Who were the accused witches?
              Basic Themes: 1) witch beliefs versus witch trials  2) learned and popular levels of witch belief

Th 3/31   Witchcraft as a belief system: anthropological approaches  
      Definition of terms: witchcraft, magic, sorcery, superstition

 F  4/1  SECTION DISCUSSION: Cohn, Ch 1 and 8, also Purkiss link

PART I.  EUROPEAN WITCH BELIEFS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE REFORMATION

WEEK 2 Reading: Levack, Ch 2, "Intellectual Foundations," 3rd edition, pp.  30-73;     (2cd ed pp. 27-67)
                       Kors and Peters (2cd ed), pp. 42-47 (Augustine), 81-86 (St. Justina), 60-67 (Canon Episcopi), 115-132 (Vox in Rama)
NOTE ADDITION FROM ORIGINAL SYLLABUS: Add K&p,  63-67, especially paragraph 170, p. 67 (Corrector of Rustics)
                                   Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, Ch 2 (on Devil), pp. 16-34
                                                                                    Ch 3-4 (on demonization of heretics), pp. 35-78      
                                                                                    Ch 9 (on night-witch/striga), pp. 162-180

  T 4/5   The Problem of evil: Judaic, Classical and Christian versions
READ: selections from Book of Job (Link), and  Augustine, K&P 42-47
Christianity and Paganism: the conversion of Europe:
READ:  K&P, 81-86 (St. Justina)

 Th  4/7       Early medieval witchcraft legislation (Link) and Canon Episcopi
                        EXPLANATION AND DISCUSSION OF FIRST ESSAY TOPICS
       13th C Heresy and the medieval  Inquisition

  F  4/8        SECTION DISCUSSION:    What did people believe about witches in early Middle Ages?
READING:  Early witchcraft legislation (Link);  Canon Episcopi, K&P pp. 60-67;
                                         Cohn Chap. 9 (on night witch or striga)

** FIRST SHORT ESSAY DUE TUESDAY APRIL 12 (2-3 pp)  see page 4 of syllabus

WEEK 3 Reading: Levack Ch 3 Legal Foundation, 3^rd ed, pp. 74-108 (2cd ed, pp. 68-99);
                                     Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, Ch 6-7  (on ritual magic), 103-143
                                     Kors & Peters, pp. 133-37 (Bernardino), 180-204  (Malleus on women)          

T 4/12     Scholasticism and Demonology:  Thomas Aquinas on demons
SLIDES: Images of demons in 15-16th C. art
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? 
READING: Bernadino of Siena against women sorcerers: K&P, 133-137
Malleus Maleficarum on women as witches: K&P, 180-204

WEEK 4 Reading:  Kors & Peters, pp. 204-229 (Malleus on trial procedure)
                                            pp. 155-159 (Nider), 176-180 (Papal Bull)
                                Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, Ch 11-12 (witch hunt), pp 202-233

 T 4/19    Growth of witch trials & witch theory in 15th century
Read Nider, Formicarius in K&P, pp. 155-159
    The Inquisitor as Witch Hunter: Kramer and Sprenger, O.P.
                                Read Innocent VIII, Papal Bull Summis desiderantes, K&P, 176-180

 Th 4/21    Malleus Maleficarum, 1486: Theory & practice of witch-hunting
MIDTERM REVIEW Learned vs popular elements of witch beliefs & trials - 15th C.

 F 4/22    Discussion: Malleus on how to conduct a witch trial: K&P, 204-229;
Review for Midterm

Weekend of 4/23-24: Start reading Doctor Faustus if you have time; not on midterm
                                       but it will be  discussed in section Fri 4/29

WEEK V
T 4/26 MIDTERM EXAM (BRING BLUE BOOKS) covers lectures & reading material through Week 4

WEEK V PART II:   EUROPEAN WITCH PANIC OF THE 16TH & 17TH CENTURIES            

Reading:    Kors & Peters, pp. 239-45, 259-270; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Levack, Ch. 4 "Impact of Reformation," 3^rd ed, pp. 109-133, (2cd ed. pp. 100-124)

Th 4/28 Natural magic in the Renaissance learned tradition
Reformation theology & the myth of Faust

Fr 4/29      SECTION DISCUSSION: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

WEEK VI Reading:        *Xerox Packet: #l Weyer, Bodin & Brenz;
                    Levack, Ch 5-6, 3^rd ed, pp 134-203, (2cd ed pp. 125-184)
Kors & Peters (2cd ed), pp. 281-302 (Weyer & Bodin), 394-401 (Scot), 302-308 (Chelmsford)

T 5/3 Impact of the Reformation on European witch beliefs
16th century witch debate: Weyer, Bodin, Brenz, & Scot  

Th 5/5        English witch trials: a separate case? Handout on English statutes    
Matthew Hopkins: the “Witchfinder General” and the English Civil War
READ: K&P Chelmsford trials, pp.302-8

Fr 5/6        SECTION DISCUSSION: 16th century witch debate: Weyer, Bodin, Brenz, & Reginald Scot

WEEK 7       START READING BOYER & NISSENBAUM, Salem Possessed for Wk 8 section

Reading:     Kors & Peters, pp  345-55, 359-67, 425-29;
                                         Levack Ch 7, 3^rd ed pp. 204-252 (2cd ed pp. 185-232); 
                                         Xerox Packet: Selections #3 - 5 Germany, France & Italy

T  5/10        Scottish witch hunt and King James Stuart (VI & I) Read K&P,  Scotland 318-322
France & Switzerland  READ K&P, 345-48 (Marie Cornu), 359-367 (Suzanne Gaudry)

Th 5/12 German witch panic READ XEROX PACKET, #3 Germany (Trial of Walpurga Hausmannin)
K&P, pp  348-55 (Bamberg, Wurzburg, Bonn), pp. 425-429 (von Spee)

Fr 5/13          Discussion: Reading witch trials: sections will discuss the trials read for this week

WEEK 8        Reading:  Boyer & Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed;
XEROX PACKET #7 SALEM (Medical theories)
                                        Kors & Peters, 367-70 (Cotton Mater), 436-37 (Salem jurors)       

 T  5/17      Possession and exorcism in France, England and Italy
Late witch trials: Scandinavia and Eastern Europe

 Th  5/19      Salem Witch Trials of 1692: The social context of witchcraft accusations
Puritan New England : theological and procedural issues; historical interpretations
READ: Medical & Psychological Explanations (See link from main web page, Week 8)

 Fr 5/20       SECTION:   Boyer & Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed:  What happened at Salem?         

 WEEK 9      Reading: on benandanti from Ginzburg, Night Battles, pp 1-39, 69-97, 147-171 

 T  5/24       Spain: The Basque trials and the Spanish Inquisition
READ: K&P, Salazar, 407-419; XEROX PACKET #6 SPAIN (Henningsen)

 Th  5/26       Roman Inquisition trials in Italy: heresy versus "superstition" & witchcraft and benandanti
Benandanti as “counter-witches” 
READ: Ginzburg, Night Battles, pp 1-32, 69-73 47-171; Packet O’Neil  article  (See Links Wk 9)

F  5/27       SECTION DISCUSSION:  The Benandanti and the Inquisition

** SECOND PAPER DUE TUESDAY MAY 31^ST AT LECTURE**

WEEK 10       Reading:     Levack, Ch 8, 3^rd ed, pp. 252-288 Ch 9 3^rd ed, pp. 289-308   (2cd ed 233-260);
                                         Kors & Peters, pp. 402-406(Montaigne), 425-429 (Von Spee), 438-444 (Bayle)
                                         Link to Malebranche, "The Search for Truth" 4 pages (Link will be posted on main page)

T 5/31 17^th C: Skepticism, materialism and the Scientific Revolution
Historical Postscript: 18th C. Rationalism & 19th C. Romanticism

Th 6/2 20th C Anthropological & feminist interpretations; "Witch revivals"
“Witch-hunting" analogues: 1) McCarthyism 2) child abuse cases
Conclusion: chronology, geography & explanations for witch trials

F 6/3 SEC TION DISCUSSION: Why did Europe stop believing in witches?
Link to Malebranche, "The Search for Truth"
                                    Kors & Peters, pp. 402-06 (Montaigne), 425-429 (Bekker), 438-444 (Bayle)

FINAL EXAM: 4:30-6:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 8 REGULAR CLASSROOM

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