Research Guides: Social History of Ghosts: 17th Century

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Popular Beliefs, Folklore, and Superstition: Europe

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’Sensible Proof of Spirits’: Ghost Belief during the Later Seventeenth Century
Author: Bath, Jo and John Newton
Publication: Folklore 117, no. 1 (2006): 1 – 14
The Haunting of Isabell Binnington: Ghosts of Murder, Texts, and Law in Restoration England
Author: Butler, Todd
Publication: Journal Of British Studies 50, no. 2 (April 2011): 248-276
Newspapers and the popular belief in witchcraft and magic in the modern period
Author: Davies, Owen
Publication: Journal Of British Studies 37, no. 2 (April 1998): 139
Born with Teeth: Christopher Brooke's ‘The Ghost of Richard the Third’ (1614)
Author: Doelman, James
Publication: Seventeenth Century 14, no. 2 (September 1999): 115-129
The History of Ghosts in Early Modern Europe: Recent Research and Future Trajectories
Author: Edwards, Kathryn A.
Publication: History Compass 10, no. 4 (April 2012): 353-366
Looking Glass Histories
Author: Ezell, Margaret J.M.
Publication: Journal Of British Studies 43, no. 3 (July 2004): 317-338
Rochester and the Specter of Libertinism
Author: Fisher, Nicholas, and Matt Jenkinson
Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly 70, no. 4 (December 2007): 537-552
What Happened to Balthasar Bekker in England? A Mystery in the History of Publishing
Author: Fix, Andrew
Pubilcation: Church History & Religious Culture 90, no. 4 (December 2010): 609-631
Reporting murder: Fiction in the archives in early modern England
Author: Gaskill, Malcolm
Publication: Social History 23, no. 1 (January 1998): 1
The Haunting of Susan Lay: Servants and Mistresses in Seventeenth–Century England
Author: Gowing, L.
Publication: Gender & History 14, no. 2 (August 2002): 183-201
Of Danes and Giants: Popular Beliefs about the Past in Early Modern England
Author: Woolf, Daniel
Publication: Dalhousie Review 71, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 166-209

Popular Beliefs, Folklore, and Superstition: American Colonies

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Almanacs and the Disenchantment of Early America
Author: Eisenstadt, Peter
Publication: Pennsylvania History 65, no. 2 (March 1998): 143-169
Native American Popular Religion in New England's Old Colony, 1670-1770
Author: Wikiarski, Douglas L.
Publication: Religion & American Culture 15, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 146-186

Witches and Witchcraft: Europe

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Witchcraft and the status of women--the case of England
Author: Anderson, Alan, and Raymond Gordon
Publication: British Journal Of Sociology 29, no. 2 (June 1978): 171-184
Large hands, wide eares, and piercing sights’: The ‘Discoveries’ of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Witch Pamphlets
Author: Bayman, Anna
Publication: Literature & History 16, no. 1 (Spring2007 2007): 26-70
The Making of the Female Witch: Reflections on Witchcraft and Gender in the Early Modern Period
Author: de Blécourt, Willem
Publication: Gender & History 12, no. 2 (July 2000): 287-309
Witchcraft
Author: Davies, Owen
Publication: History Today 49, no. 8 (August 1999): 7-13
The Reception of Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Magic, and Radical Religion
Author: Davies, S. F.
Publication: Journal Of The History Of Ideas 74, no. 3 (July 2013): 381-401
The Medical Origins of the European Witch Craze: A Hypothesis
Author: Estes, Leland L.
Publication: Journal of Social History 17, no. 2 (Winter 1983): 271-284
The Devil in the Shape of a Man: Witchcraft, Conflict and Belief in Jacobean England
Author: Gaskill, Malcolm
Publication: Historical Research 71, no. 175 (June 1998): 142-171
Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England
Author: Gaskill, Malcolm
Publication: Past & Present 198, no. 1 (February 2008): 33-70
New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth'
Author: Hunter, Michael
Publication: Historical Research 78, no. 201 (August 2005): 311-353
Witch Beliefs & Witch-hunting in England & Scotland
Author: Larner, Christina
Publication: History Today 31, no. 2 (February 1981): 32
Lady Macbeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria
Author: Levin, Joanna
Publication: Elh 69, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 21-55
The City of Witches: James I, the Unholy Sabbath, and the Homosocial Refashioning of the Witches' Community
Author: Lolis, Thomas G.
Publication: Clio 37, no. 3 (Summer2008 2008): 322-337
The Bargarran Witchcraft Scare of the 1690s
Author: McLachlan, Hugh
Publication: History Scotland Magazine 7, no. 5 (September 2007): 14-19
Witchcraft Pamphlets in Renaissance England: A Particular Case in which the Tale was Told
Author: O'Connor, Patrick Joseph
Publication: Midwest Quarterly 37, no. 2 (Winter96 1996): 215-227
Witchcraft, women's honour and customary law in early modern Wales
Author: Parkin, Sally
Publication: Social History 31, no. 3 (August 2006): 295-318
Desire and its deformities: Fantasies of Witchcraft in the English Civil War
Author: Purkiss, Diane
Publication: Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies 27, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 103-132
Witchcraft in the Early Modern Isle of Man
Author: Sharpe, James
Publication: Cultural & Social History 4, no. 1 (January 2007): 11-28
The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of the Royalist Women at Naseby
Author: Stoyle, Mark
Publication: English Historical Review 123, no. 503 (August 2008): 895-923

Witches and Witchcraft: American Colonies

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The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692
Author: Latner, Richard
Publication: Journal Of Social History 42, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 137-156.
Coming to Terms with the Salem Witch Trials
Author: Murring, John M.
Publication: Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society 110, no. 2 (October 2000): 309-347
The Refugee's Revenge
Author: Norton, Mary Beth
Publication: Common-Place: The Interactive Journal Of Early American Life 2, no. 3 (April 2002): 3
The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England
Author: Reis, Elizabeth
Publication: Journal Of American History 82, no. 1 (June 1995): 15-36

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