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.