Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of East Anglia
Course Title:
WITCHCRAFT, MAGIC AND BELIEF IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Course Number:
HIS-4004B
Course Description:
You will examine the history of early modern Europe through the history of witchcraft,
witch-beliefs, and especially witchcraft prosecutions after 1500. Through learned
demonology and folk traditions, you will explore the development of the idea of the witch,
and see how during the turbulent era of the Reformation this thinking translated into legal
trials and, occasionally some savage witch-panics. You will look in detail at subjects such as
gender, fear and anxiety, state building, and scepticism, ranging across early modern Britain,
continental Europe and colonial America.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HNRS 240, INTS 399
Course URL:
https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/2654296/5385838/HIS+Spring+2019-20.pdf/7063e0d5-1939-1169-1e03-5b14efc25f60
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