Torture and the Witchcraze of Early Modern Europe: Bibliography


Primary Source Material

Kors, Alan C. and Edward Peters, ed and trans. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.

Kramer, Heinrich and Jakob Sprenger. Malleus Maleficarum. Trans. by Montague Summers. London: Pushkin Press, 1948.

Lea, Henry Charles, coll. Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1957.

Woods, William. A Casebook of Witchcraft: Reports, Depositions, Confessions, Trials and Executions for Witchcraft During a Period of Three Hundred Years. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

Secondary Source Material

Ankarloo, Bengt and Gustav Henningsen, eds. Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts. N.p.: Pandora/HarperCollins, 1994.

-----. "On Studying Witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 4 (Fall 1988).

-----. "Women, Sexuality and Oppression: The European Witchcraft Persecutions." World History Bulletin (Spring-Summer 1988). Cohn, Norman. Europe's Inner Demons: An Inquiry Inspired by the Great Witch Hunt. New York: New American Library, 1975.

Coudert, Allison P. "The Myth of Improved Status of Protestant Women: The Case of the Witchcraze." The Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Jean R. Brink, Allison P. Coudert, and Maryanne C. Horowitz. Vol. XII in Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 61-89.

Garrett, Clarke. "Women and Witches: Patterns of Analysis." Signs 3 (1977) 461-470. Hester, Marianne. Lewd Women and Wicked Witches: A Study of the Dynamics of Male Domination. London: Routledge, 1992.

Horsley, Richard. "Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witchcraft Trials." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9.4 (Spring 1979) 689-715.

Hults, Linda C. "Baldung and the Witches of Freiburg: The Evidence of Images." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (1987) 249-76.

Kieckhefer, Richard. European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Kunze, Michael. Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Lea, Henry Charles. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. 3 vols. New York: Russell & Russell Publishers, 1955.

-----. Torture. 1866. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. "Heartland of the Witchcraze: Central and Northern Europe." History Today, February 1981, 27-31.

-----. Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and Intellectual Foundations. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Sabean, David Warren. Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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