History of the Occult

March 23, 2022

History of the Occult, Episode One, Breaking the Stereotype of the Early Modern Witch

<p>We are going to examine the five key aspects of the long-established witch stereotype. In doing so this will cautiously present a modified profile of the early modern European witch. </p><p>Intro music references.</p><p>Healy, Brian. The Hanging Tree, A cappella Virtual Chorus. 2020. Youtube. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyjtuTlAhk.">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyjtuTlAhk.</a></p><p>Sena, Dominic dir. Season of the Witch. 2011; United Kingdom: Atlas Entertainment. Amazon.</p><p>References</p><p>Chaplin, J. W. “A Wrinkled Face, a Furr’d Brow, a Hairy Lip [and] a Gobber Tooth’: Searching for the Victims of the Early Modern European Witch-Hunt, c.1450-1750.” Essex Student Journal 10, 1, (2019). 1 – 14.</p><p>Durrant, B. J. Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany. Leiden: Brill, 2007.</p><p>Dworkin, A. Woman Hating. New York: Plume, 1974.</p><p>Gaskill, M. ‘The Devil in the Shape of a Man: Witchcraft, Conflict, and Belief in Jacobean England’, in Levack, B. P. (ed.) New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001, (pages unknown).</p><p>Gaskill, M. ‘Witchcraft in Early Modern Kent: Stereotypes and Backgrounds to Accusations’, in Barry, J. (ed.) Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 257-287.</p><p>Holmes, C. ‘Women: Witnesses and Witches’, in Levack, B. P. (ed.) New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001, (pages unknown).</p><p>Jackson, L. ‘Witches, Wives and Mothers: Witchcraft Persecution and Women’s Confessions in Seventeenth-Century England’, in Levack, B. P. (ed.) New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001, (pages unknown).</p><p>Kramer, H. ‘Malleus Maleficarum’, in Levack, P. B. (ed.) The Witchcraft Sourcebook. Abingdon: Psychology Press, 2015, pp. 57-68.</p><p>Levack, B. P. New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001.</p><p>Levack, B. P. The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. Harlow: Routledge, 2006.</p><p>Macfarlane, A. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study. London: Routledge, 1970.</p><p>Mackay, S. C. The Hammer of the Witches: A Complete Translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.</p><p>Roper, L. ‘Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany’, in Levack B. P. (ed.) New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology: Gender and Witchcraft. New York: Routledge, 2001, (pages unknown).</p><p>Roper, L. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. London: Yale University Press, 2004.</p><p>Rowlands, A. ‘Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Europe’, in Levack B. P. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Oxford: OUP, (2013) pp. 449-467.</p><p>Rowlands, A. (2009) (ed.) Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe. Basingstoke: Springer.</p><p>Rowlands, A. ‘Witchcraft and Old Women in Early Modern Germany’, Past and Present, 173 (1), (2001) pp. 50-89.</p><p>Schulte, R. Man as Witch: Male Witches in Central Europe. Basingstoke: Springer, 2009.</p><p>Schulte, R. ‘Men as Accused Witches in the Holy Roman Empire’, in Rowlands, A. (ed.) Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe. Basingstoke: Springer, (2009) pp. 52-73.</p><p>Scot, R. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. 1584. Accessed 22 March 2022.</p><p>Available at: <a href="http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk">http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk</a></p><p>Thomas, K. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Belief in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.</p>