糖心TV

Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Indicative Reading List

  • Philip Almond, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts (Cambridge, 2009)
  • William E. Burns, An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics, and Providence in England, 1657–1727 (Manchester, 2002)
  • Owen Davies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (Hambledon, 2007)
  • Peter Elmer, Witchcraft, Witch-hunting and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2016)
  • Sasha Handley, Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2007)
  • Deborah Harkness, John Dee鈥檚 Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge, 1999)
  • Lizanne Henderson, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670–1740 (Basingstoke, 2016)
  • Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief: A History (East Linton, 2001)
  • Michael Hunter (ed.), The Occult Laboratory: Magic, Science, and Second Sight in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Woodbridge, 2001)
  • Brian P. Levack, Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (Abingdon, 2008)
  • Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West (New Haven, 2013)
  • Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley, 1992)
  • Peter Marshall, Invisible Worlds: Death, Religion and the Supernatural in England, 1500–1700 (London, 2017)
  • Martha McGill, Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (Woodbridge, 2018)
  • Darren Oldridge, The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England (Abingdon, 2016)
  • Sally Parkin, 鈥榃itchcraft, women鈥檚 honour and customary law in early modern Wales鈥, Social History 31 (2006), 295-318
  • Diane Purkiss, Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories (London, 2000)
  • Laura Sangha, Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700 (London, 2012)
  • Robert W. Scribner, 鈥楾he Reformation, popular magic, and the 鈥渄isenchantment of the world鈥濃, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23 (1993), 475-94
  • Jane Shaw, Miracles in Enlightenment England (New Haven, 2006)
  • Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, 1971)
  • Francis Timbers, 鈥楾he Damned Fraternitie鈥: Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 (Abingdon, 2016)
  • Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1999)
  • Alexandra Walsham, 鈥楾he Reformation and 鈥渢he disenchantment of the world鈥 reassessed鈥, Historical Journal 51 (2008), 497-528
  • Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (Brighton, 2005)
  • Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook (eds.), Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present (London, 2018)
  • NB. In addition to these core readings, each week鈥檚 reading list will include optional further reading on Britain, and 鈥榖roader context鈥 readings that look at the topics with reference to continental Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas. In week 10鈥檚 class, each student will be required to discuss two 鈥榖roader context鈥 works on a theme of their choice.

Let us know you agree to cookies