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General objectives of the class
Course introduction Course outline
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General objectives of the class
Course introduction Course outline
Bibliographies: preliminary
primary sources
secondary sources
Occult philosophers: Marsilio Ficino Agrippa von Nettesheim
Giordano Bruno John Dee Tommaso Campanella
Chiromancy and Girolamo
Cardano Renaissance
astrological medicine
Alchemical philosophers: introduction to alchemy/chemistry
Demonologists: before the Malleus the Malleus Maleficarum
Ulrich Molitor Johann Weyer Jean Bodin
Nicolas Rémy Pierre
de Lancre F. M. Guazzo
Topics: shamanism werewolves ghosts and spectres
gender and witchcraft medicine and the demonic
modern psychological explanations mere imaginings?
the roles of children truth and the languages of accusation
monsters the "English stereotype" demonic possession
Judicial torture and execution methods
Regions: the devils of Loudun (France) Newes from Scotland (1591)
the earlier English cases the Lancashire witches
Later English cases and their decline New England cases
Outsiders' accounts: Lapland
the Faroe Islands
Useful information: approx.
statistics of cases