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European Witch Trials

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Witchcraft  History

Sample result:

Pócs, Éva, et al. Witchcraft Mythologies and Persecutions. Demons, Spirits, Witches, vol. 3. New York: Central European University Press, 2008.

Witchcraft  Medieval     

Witchcraft  16th century  

Witchcraft 17th century    

Witchcraft 18th century

Demonology             Exorcism              Magic          

Demonic Possession

Levack, Brian P. The Devil Within : Possession & Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven:
     Yale University Press, 2013.

Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. The Occult in Early Modern Europe : A Documentary History. New York:
     St. Martin's Press, 1999. BF 1429 .O27 1999  Fl. 2

 

Witchcraft

Ankarloo, Bengt, et al. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. London: Athlone, 2002.

Ankarloo, Bengt, et al. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages. London: Athlone Press, 2002.

Durrant, Jonathan B, and Michael David Bailey. Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012.

Levack, Brian P. Witchcraft Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Taylor and Francis, 2015.   

Levack, Brian P. The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. BF1571 .O94 2013 Fl. 1 Reference

Levin, Carole, ed. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen : Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. London: Routledge, 2017.

Apps, Lara. Male Witches in Early Modern Europe. Manchester University Press, 2003.

General Reference

Carney, Jo Eldridge. Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620 : A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, 2001.

Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer. Women in World History : A Biographical Encyclopedia. 17 vols.
Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999.  HQ 1115 .W6 1999 Fl. 1 Reference

Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. (online version is below)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.  BR302.8 .O93 1996 Fl. 1 Reference

New Catholic Encyclopedia. 19 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967-2003.
     BX841 .N44 2003 Fl. 1 Reference

Britannica Academic. (from the Alabama Virtual Library).

The Inquisition and Witchcraft

Witch Hunting 

Goodare, Julian. The European Witch-Hunt. London: Routledge, 2016.

Levack, Brian P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. 3rd ed. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2006.  BF 1571 .L48 2006 Fl. 2

Pavlac, Brian Alexander. Witch Hunts in the Western World : Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2009.

Spain

Henningsen, Gustav. The Salazar Documents: Inquisitor
Alonso De Salazar Frías and others on the Basque Witch Persecution
. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Inquisition

Germany

Dillinger, Johannes. "Evil People" : A Comparative Study of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

(Johannes von Schonenberg, for example, was Elector of Trier)

France

Pearl, Jonathan L.  The Crime of Crimes : Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620.  Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999.  
       see chapter 7: "Pierre de lancre"

Pearl, Jonathan L. “French Catholic Demonologists and Their Enemies in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries.” Church History 52, no. 4 (1983): 457–67.

Scotland

Goodare, Julian. Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. London: Palgrave, 2013.
      see chapter 5, Hughes, Paula. "Witch hunting in Scotland . . ."

Trials (Witchcraft) History to 1500

Trials (Heresy) History to 1500

Trials (Witchcraft) Germany

Sample results

Ankarloo, Bengt, et al. The Period of the Witch Trials. London: Athlone, 2002.

Dillinger, Johannes. "Evil People" : A Comparative Study
of Witch Hunts in Swabian Austria and the Electorate of Trier
. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Rapley, Robert. Witch Hunts : From Salem to Guantanamo Bay. Montreal Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.

See pt. 1: Witches and fear of the devil -- The Bamberg and Wurzburg witch hunts, 1626-1630

Germany

[P] Spee, Friedrich Von, and Marcus Hellyer. Cautio Criminalis, or, a Book on Witch Trials.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Italy
Seitz, Jonathan. Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
 

 

 

Witchcraft Europe

Witchcraft France

Krause, Virginia. Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France.
     New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Witchcraft Germany

   Witchcraft Italy

   Schutte, Anne Jacobson. Aspiring Saints : Pretense of Holiness, 
  Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750
.
   Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

   Witchcraft England/Scotland

   Levack, Brian P, ed. New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and
   Demonology. Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England
.
   New York: Routledge, 2001.

   Todd, Margo. The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern
   Scotland
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 
          BX 4840 .T63 2002 Fl. 2

   Witchcraft New England

   Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of
   Early New England
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

   Courtesans Venice

Rosenthal, Margaret F. "Veronica Franco's Terze Rime: The Venetian Courtesan's Defense." Renaissance Quarterly 42, no. 2 (1989): 227-57.

   By Time Period

   The Sixteenth Century Journal

   Renaissance Quarterly

   Journal of Early Modern History

   By Geography

   German History (2008-present; Oxford UP)

   German History (1998-12 months ago; Academic SP)

   The English Historical Review

   The Scottish Historical Review

   William and Mary Quarterly

Religious History

Church History

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Sample results

Craker, Wendel D. "Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft, and Confession at Salem in 1692."
     The Historical Journal 40, no. 2 (1997): 331-58.

Henderson, Lizanne. “The Survival of Witchcraft Prosecutions and Witch Belief in South-West Scotland.”
     Scottish Historical Review 85,1, no. 219 (2006): 52–74.

Herzig, Tamar. "Bridging North and South: Inquisitorial Networks and Witchcraft Theory on the Eve of the Reformation."
     Journal of Early Modern History 12, no. 5 (2008): 361-82.

Kounine, Laura. “The Gendering of Witchcraft: Defence Strategies of Men and Women in German Witchcraft Trials.”
     German History 31, no. 3 (2013): 295–317.

Rivett, Sarah. "Our Salem, Our Selves." The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 65, no. 3 (2008): 495-502.    

Warnicke, Retha M. "The Fall of Anne Boleyn Revisited." The English Historical Review 108, no. 428 (1993): 653-65.

Tempel Anneke

Morton, Peter A., ed.  The Trial of Tempel Anneke : Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick,
     Germany, 1663
. 2nd ed. trans. Barbara Dähms. University of Toronto Press, 2017.
     KK270.7.R65 T75 2017 Fl. 2

    Templars/Alice Kyteler

    Callan, Maeve Brigid. The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild
        Irish : Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland
.
        Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

   Catherine Monvoisin

   Hilton, Lisa. Athénaïs: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the
       Real Queen of France
. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002. 
       DC 130 .M78 H57 2002 Fl. 2

   Mossiker, Frances. The Affair of the Poisons: Louis XIV,
       Madame De Montespan, and One of History's Great
       Unsolved Mysteries
. New York: Knopf, 1969. 
       DC 126 .M66 Fl. 2  (La Voisin, Madame de Montespan)

  James I/VI

   Borman, Tracy. Witches : James I and the English Witch
   Hunts
. London: Vintage Books, 2014.

Veronica Franco

Ruggiero, Guido. Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance.
   New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

[P] Franco, Veronica. Poems and Selected Letters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Early English Books Online (University of Michigan Text Creation Partnership)

HathiTrust Digital Library

Example:  La Voisin (Catherine Monvoisin)

Sample result:

Watt, Jeffrey R. “Calvin’s Geneva Confronts Magic and Witchcraft: The Evidence from the Consistory.”
     Journal of Early Modern History 17, no. 3 (2013): 215–44.

  Malleus maleficarum

   General
  
Levack, Brian P. Witchcraft Sourcebook. 2nd ed. Taylor and
   Francis, 2015.   

   Witchcraft Collection. Cornell University Library Division of Rare
   and  Manuscript Collections. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu
   /w/witch/browse_author_un.htm  
(searchable, citations only)

   Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward M Peters. Witchcraft in Europe,
   1100-1700 : A Documentary History
. Philadelphia: University of
   Pennsylvania Press, 1989. BF1566 .K67 1989 Fl. 2

   Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. The Occult in Early Modern Europe : A
   Documentary History
. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
   BF1429 .O27 1999 Fl. 2

France/Basque

Boguet, Henri. An Examen of Witches. Trans. by E. Allen Ashwin. Ed.
by Montague Summers. London, 1929. Trans. of Discours des sorciers (1602).

Henningsen, Gustav. The Salazar Documents : Insquisitor Alonso De Salazar Frías and Others
     on the Basque Witch Persecution
. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

England/Scotland/Ireland

Early English Books Online (University of Michigan Text Creation Partnership)

A Guide to Grand Jury Men . . . in Cases of Witchcraft. London, 1630. (from University of Michigan)

Ledrede, Richard, et al. A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler,
    Prosecuted for Sorcery In 1324
. London: Camden Society, 1843. (In Latin)

Gibson, Marion. Early Modern Witches : Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing.
     Hoboken: Taylor & Francis, 2000.

Ewen, C. L'Estrange, and Great Britain. Courts.  Witch Hunting and Witch Trials : The
     Indictments for Witchcraft from . . . 1559-1736
. London: Routledge, 2011.

Salem

Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World. Boston in New-England;
     and Reprinted at London, for John Dunton, at the Raven and in the Poultry, 1693.
     Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive, © University of Virginia.

Trask, Richard B. The Devil Hath Been Raised : A Documentary History of the Salem Village
     Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692 . . .  Newly Located and Gathered Witchcraft Documents
.
     Rev. ed. Danvers, Mass.: Yeoman Press, 1997. BF1576 .T73 1997 Fl. 2

Germany

Spee, Friedrich Von, and Marcus Hellyer. Cautio Criminalis, or, a Book on Witch Trials.
     Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.