Lecture and Seminar Programme
All lecture slides, recordings, handouts, seminar preparation, and reading lists are available on the |
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| Week | Seminar topics | |
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Autumn Term |
1 |
No Classes |
| Introductions | ||
| 2 |
Writing a history of deviance Refer to the module moodle page for seminar preparation and reading |
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| 3 | Heresy in early modern Europe: The emergence of a persecuting society | |
| Theme 1: Non-European deviants | ||
| 4 | Europe's Jewish population | |
| 5 |
Muslims in and beyond Europe |
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| 6 |
Reading Week - no classes |
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| 7 | Black Europeans and imperial encounters | |
| Theme 2: Religious and supernatural deviants | ||
| 8 | Protestants, Catholics and the 'radical reformations' | |
| 9 | Astrologers, prophets and mystics | |
| 10 | Witches and witch-hunting | |
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Spring Term |
1 | Werewolves and the possessed |
| 2 | Unbelievers and atheists | |
| Theme 3: Social and medical deviants | ||
| 3 | Gender, sex and prostitution | |
| 4 | Sodomy, cross-dressing and sexual deviance | |
| 5 | Monsters and hermaphrodites | |
| 6 |
Reading Week - no classes |
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| 7 | Leprosy, early modern epidemics and 'the diseased' | |
| 8 | Mental illness and disabled persons | |
| 9 | The poor, homeless and arsonists | |
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10 | Criminals, bandits and pirates |
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Summer Term |
1 | Migrants and Gypsy/Romani/Traveller communities |
| 2 | Conclusions | |