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HSTEU 305, Summer Quarter
European Witch Trials

Lecture Outlines: Click on each date or title for outlines

Week 9: Please print out exam review and bring to class

Mon 8/17 Slide lecture on demons, women, witches

Tues 8/18 17th C: Decline of witch trials & Scientific Revoution

Weds 8/19 18-20th C: Image of witchcraft in more recent centuries

Thurs 9/20 Conclusion and review for final

Fri 9/21 Final exam: see home page for link to review

Week 8

Mon 8/10        Spain : 1) The Basque trials and the Spanish Inquisition

                         2) Spanish Inquisitorial procedures

                         3) Spain: Report of Fra Alonso Salazar

Tues 8/11        Italy: why does Italy have so few witch trials?

Weds 8/12       Italy: the benandanti -- "counter-witches" from Friuli

Thurs 8/13       Why Women?

Week 7

Mon 8/3        Possession and Exorcism

Tues 8/4       Salem Village Witchcraft

Weds 8/5 Discussion of Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed
                 Outline of Salem Village Ministers

Thurs 8/6        Puritan intellectuals on witchcraft: role of the Mathers

Week 6

Mon 7/27 16th century witch debate: Weyer, Bodin, Brenz

Tues 7/28 German witch panic 

Weds 7/29 Witch trials in France and Switzerland

Thurs 7/30 Possession and Exorcism ( postposned until Monday)

Week 5

Mon 7/20 Renaissance magical tradition

Tues 7/21Reformation theology and the myth of Faust
                 Faust discussion notes

Weds 7/22 English Witchcraft: Beliefs & Statutes

Thurs 7/23 English Witch Trials: Statistics

                  England: Social Setting of w/c accusations

                  Scottish Witch Trials

Fri 7/24 No lecture -- office hours 10:30-12 Noon

MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS FRIDAY JULY 17TH

Week 4 Notes Bring Kors & Peters to class

Mon 7/13  15th Century Witch Trials and Witch Theory

               Discussion: Bernardino of Siena, Nider Formicarius

Tues 7/14 Inquisitors as Witch Hunters: Kramer & Sprenger

               Discussion: Malleus on how to conduct a witch trial

Weds 7/15 Malleus continued

Thurs 7/16 Midterm review

Midterm exam covers all material through Malleus (we can
use part of class period on Weds & Thurs for review)

Fri 7/17 MIDTERM IN CLASS BRING BLUE/GREEN BOOKS

 WEEKEND 7/18-19 READ DR. FAUSTUS, by Marlowe

Discussion in class on Monday July 20 -- here are
notes for that discussion --

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Week 3 Notes

Mon 7/6 Scholasticism

Tues 7/7 Image of Jews;   14th C. Sorcery Trials

Weds 7/8 Image of Women in Middle Ages

Thurs 7/9 Discussion of Women in Malleus Maleficarum

Fri 7/10 See Week 4 topics for Monday and Tuesday

Handout #3

Week 2 Notes

Mon 6/29

Tues 6/30

Document discussion for Tuesday

Weds 7/1

Thurs 7/2

Week 1 Notes


Mon 6/22

Tues-Weds 6/23

Thur 6/25

Fri 6/26

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 Last Updated:
6/28/09

Contact the instructor at: oneilmr@u.washington.edu