NB: The syllabus under 'chapters and articles' may be subjected to changes up until the teaching starts.
Books:
Levack, Brian 2016: The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe. Fourth Edition. London and New York: Routledge. 276 pages.
Davies, Owen (ed.) 2017: The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic. Oxford University Press. 280 pages.
Readers and sourcebooks:
Levack, Brian (ed.) 2015: The Witchcraft Sourcebook. Second Edition. London and New York: Routledge. (Selections, see recommended readings under lectures)
Oldridge, Darren (ed.) 2008: The Witchcraft Reader. Second Edition. Routledge. (Selections, see recommended readings under lectures)
Chapters and Articles:
?stling, Per-Anders 2006: Bl?kulla Journeys in Swedish Folklore. In Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. Vol. 62, pp 81-122. (Available in Canvas) 40 pages.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. 2003: “How magic survived the disenchantment of the world.” In Religion 33, pp. 357-380. (Available in Canvas) 22 pages.
Herzig, Tamar 2010: "Flies, Heretics, and the Gendering of Witchcraft" in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Vol. 5, number 1, pp. 51-80. 29 pages.
Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm 2011a: "Lay and Inquisitorial Witchcraft Prosecutions in Early Modern Italy and Denmark" in Scandinavian Journal of History, 36:3, pp. 265-278. 13 pages.
Kallestrup, Louise Nyholm 2011b: "Knowing Satan from God: Demonic Possession, Witchcraft, and the Lutheran Orthodox Church in Early Modern Denmark", in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Vol. 6, Number 2, pp. 163-182. 20 pages.
Ohrvik, Ane 2012: "'...For All Honest Christian and Science-Loving Readers': Religious Encounters in Early Modern Norwegian Black Books", in Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. Vol. 68, (Available in Canvas). Pp. 7-26. 20 pages.
Willumsen, Liv Helene 2013: "Children accused of Witchcraft in 17th-century Finnmark", in Scandinavian Journal of History, 38:1, pp. 18-41. 24 pages.
Pearson, Joanne 2002: "The history and development of Wicca and Paganism", in Pearson, Joanne (ed): Belief beyond boundaries: Wicca, Celtic spirituality and the New Age. Ashgate. (Available in Canvas) Pp. 15-54. 39 pages
Recommended literature:
Rampton, Martha (ed.) 2018: European Magic and Witchcraft. University of Toronto Press.