Background reading
For a full reading list, including background reading for each seminar session, look at the weekly topics on the .
The weekly seminar readings should be your first port of call, not Google or Wikipedia.
Key reference works used in this module
Bartlett, Robert, 'Medieval and Early Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 31 (2001), 39-56
Bingham, Caroline, 鈥楽eventeenth-Century Attitudes Toward Deviant Sex鈥�, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1 (1971), 447-68
W.J. Bouwsma, 鈥楢nxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture鈥�, in B.C. Malament (ed.), After the Reformation (Manchester, 1980), pp. 215-46
Dillinger, Johannes, 鈥楾errorists and Witches: Popular Ideas of Evil in the Early Modern Period鈥�, History of European Ideas, 30 (2004), 167-82.
Douglas, Mary, 'Witchcraft and Leprosy: Two Strategies of Exclusion', Man, 26 (1991), 723-36.
Gibbs, Jack P. 鈥楥onceptions of Deviant Behaviour: The Old and the New鈥�, in M. Lefton et al (eds), Approaches to Deviance (New York, 1968), pp. 44-55
Grell, P. Ole and B. Scribner (eds), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge, 1996)
J眉tte, Robert, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1994).
Kagan, Richard L. and A. Dyer (eds), Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (Baltimore, 2004)
Kaplan, Benjamin J., Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2007).
Kauffmann, Miranda, Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017).
Laursen, J. C. and C.J. Nederman (eds), Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Tolerance before the Enlightenment (Philadelphia, 1998)
Lewis, R. B., Cultures and Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (Oxford, 1995).
Levack, (2nd ed., 2015)
Milner, S. J., (ed), At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Minneapolis, 2005), esp. chaps. 1 and 2
Naphy, W. G. and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997)
Oldridge, Darren, (London: Routledge, 2005)
Otele, Olivette, African Europeans: An Untold History (2020).
O'Reilly, William, 鈥楾urks and Indians on the Margins of Europe鈥�, Belleten, 65 (2001), 243-56.
Park, K. and L. J. Daston, (New York, 1997).
Pullin, Naomi and Kathryn Woods (eds.), Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550-1800 (2021).
Schorsch, Jonathan, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (2004).
Sharpe, J. A. 'Witches and Persecuting Societies', Journal of Historical Sociology, 3 (1990), 75-86.
Spicer, Andrew and Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw (eds.), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750 (2017).
Alexandra Walsham, Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 (Manchester, 2006).