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Search Engline for Shakespeare's Stage Coney-catching - Elizabethan Underworld resource Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England at Eyewitness History Law in popular Culture at the University of Texas Gillian Spraggs's Outlaws & Highwaymen website
Executioner's Glossary at Loyola University Medieval Terms defined at the Orb
Early Modern Web Crime Bibliography Gillian Spraggs's Rogue Literature Bibliography
Salem Witchcraft Papers at the University of Virginia Complete Newgate Calendar at the University of Texas Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads TEAMS Middle English Texts including 'The Tale of Gamelyn' and 'A Gest of Robyn Hode' The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834, searchable Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England Project Gutenberg Electronic Public Library
Elizabethan Drama - playwright biographies
Essay on Renaissance Tragedy and Investigator Heroes The Highwaymen Ghosts, Article by Martin and Louise Jeffrey
Book Reviews and Book Purchase Details Review of Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature, edited by Arthur F. Kinney, by John Mucci at Book Reviews Jest Books, the Literature of Roguery, and the Vagrant Poor in Renaissance England by L. Woodbridge Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537–1609 by John K. Brackett Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren
English history and literature Early modern English history: includes pages of links to research resources (including bibliographies) and web sites . Sharon Howard's History Resources A valuable set of pages with links to sites on Crime, punishment and law (contemporary and historical perspectives) and Early Modern History (with a special section on Crime, law and disorder ), also a page of links to Early Modern Bibliographies . Early Modern Literary Studies. WWW-Accessible Resources Links to resource materials useful to literary scholars working in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The UK higher and further education gateway to online humanities resources. Gateway site maintained by the Institute for Historical Research (UK). Medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and its background. A venerable (in Web terms) gateway site to resources in the humanities; currently undergoing a major overhaul and upgrading. Here are some guides to the web that are more comprehensive in scope: 'Best of the Web'; has history, arts and education directories. Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas. Here is the Humanities page. Librarians' Index to the Internet Large directory of resources on all subjects selected by American librarians. Here is the History page. This site includes an extensive directory of web resources. Here is the Arts & Humanities page. The oldest catalogue of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert. Here are the British History , English History and Early Modern History pages.
Pirates http://www.deadmentellnotales.com/ More Pirates http://www.noquartergiven.net/ Buccaneers of Old - Pirate Links Piracy in general · Pirates of the Caribbean - (no connection with the movie) good, concise material, nice graphics - updated 10/17/04 · Pirates Cove - graphic rich, but extensive site - updated 10/17/04 · Pyrates Providence - "a starting point for those inclined to go on the account" - updated 10/17/04 · Gentlemen of Fortune - Living History 1690-1725 Golden Age of Piracy - updated 10/17/04 · Swashbuckler's Cove - extensive site, lots of material not found elsewhere - updated 1/31/05 · Pirates & Privateers - Cindy Vallar's monthly articles on piracy & privateering - updated 1/1/04 · Welcome to Pirates! - extensive site, good teacher resource section · The Pirate's Library - source of many standard pirate reference books - updated 1/8/05 · The Pirate's Life - pirates, ships, flags & more -- great graphics, images of artifacts · Captain Morgan's Journal - many links & good bibliography on early pirates & vikings · The Captain's Cabin - mix of pirate facts, poems, art & tales - new 6/22/04 · Le Diable Volant - in English & French, 17th c. Caribbean pirates, many original documents · Piece of Eight: A Guide to 17th-Century Piracy · Isle of Tortuga - In Dutch and English, with many primary documents · Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas - book about lots of female pirates · Women Pirates & Privateers: Real and Legendary - extensive list · Pirates Of The Caribbean - Virgin Islands pirate history · The History of the Spanish Treasure Fleet System - new 1/8/05 · Pirates of the Spanish Main - lots of links, classic graphics · Index of Piracy - list of pirate links · Pirate Mythtory - correcting many of our misconceptions about pirates - new 1/8/05 · LEGENDS - Pirates & Privateers - mostly links and references · Pirates and Privateers - by Cindy Vallar - Suite 101 archived articles · Welcome to Pirate's Cove - good resources, seafaring info, underwater archeology · Pirates Homepage - The students of Rochedale State School contribute to this site · The Pirate's Hold - pirate roster, timeline, list of computer & RPG games - updated 3/13/04 · Pirates - by Ryan Elwell (good Quotes page) · Capt. Blood's Family - historical information about the Brethren of the Coast · "Scurvy Dogs" - an historical view of the Golden Age of Piracy · The Mysterious & Unexplained - Oak Island · Oak Island Treasure - excellent British site about the mystery · Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar :: Solving the Oak Island Mystery · Pirates of the Whydah - National Geographic · Expedition Whydah - The Legend of Capt. Bellamy · Pirate Ghosts: Whydah -- Current Expedition · Treasure Pirates of the Whydah - Barry Clifford's hunt for sunken treasure ships · Beej's Pirate Image Archive -- great resource of images in public domain · Port Royal - The famous Pirate City, much of it sunk by an earthquake · Port Royal Project - Texas A&M - Institute of Underwater Archeology · The History of St. Augustine - attacked by Drake and other pirates · Pirate Law: WEAPONS - written by Anne Read · I Sailed with Chinese Pirates - true account · Punks 'n Pirates - history (Baltic pirates), songs (some in Swedish), humor · A Pirates Progress: How the Maritime Rogue Became a Multicultural Hero · Blackbeard's Bottle - What did the Pirates drink? · PsychoWench's Jolly Roger Page - learn meaning of symbols on pirate flags (click on Moto-Munkey Patches, then scroll down to the link at Jolie Rogue in the list) - new 2/5/05 · Pirates on Stamps - images of stamps with the piracy theme · The Fate of Theodosia Burr - was she attacked by pirates? · The Portrait of Theodosia Burr - more of the story. Privateering and Letters of Marque (of course, many of the sites above deal with privateers - these are sites that specially focus on privateers) · Privateering Homepage - Canadian privateering, letters of marque, Barrett's Privateers · Letters of Marque - many letters of marque in several languages · Treaties with the Barbary Powers - actual documents Individual Pirates (grouped roughly in alphabetical order by the name of the pirate or his/her nickname) · Blackbeard Lives - The contest is over, but it's still a great site. · In Search of Blackbeard , article from Historic Traveller · Queen Anne's Revenge - investigating the remains of Blackbeard's flagship - new 1/2/05 · Blackbeard's Homepage ........the King of Pirates · Blackbeard's Ship Believed Discovered · The Story of Blackbeard - from Teach's Hole - Blackbeard Exhibit & Pirate Specialty Shop · Home of Blackbeard the Pirate - Blackbeard sites in coastal N. Carolina - new 1/2/05 · Blackbeard Rises Again - Discovery Online's Queen Anne's Revenge updates · Surface Interval Diving Company - Lookin' for Blackbeard's final prize, the Martinique sugar ship · Anne Bonney Home Page -historical information written by her namesake · Bouchard's attack on San Juan Capistrano · William Dampier - buccaneer, world explorer, and naturalist · Captain John Deane - Adventurer and pirate · Sir Francis Drake, the Buccaneer · Robert Drury's Journal - a pirate's adventures in Madagascar · Fieldwork in Madagascar - the shipwreck of the Degrave , which stranded Robert Drury · Peter Easton, the Marquis of Savoy - one of the most infamous pirates of the 17th c · Peter Easton - Pirate Admiral · Peter Easton "The Pirate Admiral" - his activities in Newfoundland - new 1/2/05 · Granuaile - Irish chieftain and pirate, aka "Grace O'Malley" · Gráinne Ní Mháille ~ Pirate Queen of Connaught · Grace O'Malley - by Judy Staley · Grainne Ni Mhaille - based on "Uppity Women of Medieval Times" · Granuaile - Daughter of Owen The O'Malley · Piet Heyn - famous Dutch privateer · John Paul Jones - Pirate or Patriot · Famous Pirates - Kidd, Lafitte, Rackham · The Pirate Hunter - based on book about Kidd, see real documents, & Kidd's home · Diving for Captain Kidd's Sunken Ship - a Discovery adventure · Captain Kidd's Island Found - a good bio & possible location for Kidd's treasure · Thomas Lacy and the Pirate - a page from the Lacy family history · The Laffite Society - organization devoted to the study of the privateers Jean & Pierre Laffite · Jean Lafitte - Gentleman Pirate - online book · Olivier Le Vasseur - (in French) aka La Buse (the Buzzard) - new 1/2/05 · Old Hickory and the Pirate - Jean Lafitte · Great Characters of New Orleans - Jean Lafitte · Henry Morgan, Pirate Ship - May be the one found off of Haiti · Henry Morgan - A Welsh Buccaneer · A Morgan Family Reunion - history of the Morgan family, including Henry Morgan · Jean David Nau - (in French) aka François L'Olonnais, very detailed with maps - new 1/2/05 · John Nutt , Newfoundland Pirate · Gilbert Pike and Sheila Na Geira - Gilbert & Sheila Pike · Princess Sheila NaGira - a romantic story of a pirate and a princess, more on the Pikes **Special Note: Teachers in search of learning activities dealing with navigation in the Seventeenth Century should check out the web site Piece of Eight under History . Educational worksheets on Sir Francis Drake, the ship's voyage around the world, health & life at sea, mariners' food, sea battles, war with Spain, punishment, ships pay, and navigation. The Legend of Captain Dave's Lost Treasure Designed as a summer reading adventure by the Dauphin County Library System, this scavenger hunt takes pirate fans to various web sites to decipher the secret riddle that will allow them to join Captain Dave's crew. Pirate trivia and history are interspersed among the clues. Don't forget to print the map before you begin your adventure! This eye-pleasing site explores the world of piracy. Topics include the Jolly Roger, Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge , pirate articles and punishments, famous pirates, and a who's who aboard a pirate ship. The table that explains the meanings of the symbols found on pirate flags is unique among web sites. This Australian school project provides a wonderful treasure trove of information and photographs on pirates. It includes piracy terms, famous pirates, a Treasure Island summary, pirate stories and poems, and a quiz to test your knowledge about pirates. Privateers: Pirates or Patriots? This elementary Maryland Social Studies unit explores the effect of piracy on the economy of early America and compares pirates to privateers. There are links to other web sites, a student worksheet, and The Trial of Chesapeake Charlie , a script of a pirate trial. This New York Times article on the discovery of Captain Kidd's Adventure Galley off the coast of Madagascar includes a two-day lesson plan geared for students in Grades 6-12 on historical archaeology. A Teaching Unit for Treasure Island Created by Joan Bigelow for her middle school students, this site provides her course notes and schedule, activities, teacher synopsis, and research project ideas on pirates. History This small band of SCA privateers focuses on a sailor's life pre-1600's, but includes naval history through the mid-1700's. Of particular note is their concentration on the Barbary Corsairs. The Canadian Privateering Homepage Dan Conlin, a marine historian in Halifax, has compiled an extensive array of information about Canadian privateers. There are lists of privateers as well as the ships on which they sailed. Travel aboard a privateer as she sails the West Indies in search of prey! Captain Raven's Seadogs of the Eighteenth Century Explores the Golden Age of Piracy. Topics include common misconceptions, discipline, the Jolly Roger, women pirates, and POTC fanfiction. This site provides an overview of piracy with particular emphasis on English and Dutch pirates and the notorious pirate haven of Tortuga. Also contains Exquemelin's The Buccaneers of America. "Redbeard" Bob's site delves into pirate history, the Jolly Roger and the Knight Templar, women pirates, pirate ships and their captains, several famous pirates, and pirate movies. Don't forget to take his Official Pirate Qualification Exam 101. These pages provide a general history on piracy and biographies on several of the more well-known pirates: Morgan, Blackbeard, Kidd, Roberts, and Rackham. Information on the mysterious Oak Island is also included. The Home button will take you to the museum's main page from which you can seek further adventures involving UFOs, lost worlds, dinosaurs, and much more. Piece of Eight: a Guide to 17th-century Piracy This site deals only with piracy in the Western world during the 1600s. Topics covered include navigation, seamanship, life at sea, politics, weapons, and people. There is also a forum for discussion and the navigation pages include lesson plans written by a teacher to help students learn about the various tools sailors used to travel the High Seas. Eventually there will be a pirate database. Pirate Walks in Bristol, England Pirate Pete conducts guided tours of Bristol, England's pirate and maritime haunts. The historical nuggets within these pages include maps, historical tidbits, and famous pirates and mariners of yore. The Pirate's Life - Dead Men Tell No Tales Summaries of famous pirates and privateers of the 17th and 18th centuries, pirate flags, and pirate ships and their captains. Clickable color graphics allow for full images of ships, flags, and Captain Kidd's privattering letter of marque. This well-rounded look at piracy includes biographies of famous pirates, articles of agreement, pirate ships, havens, weaponry, vocabulary, crew members, and more. Great site on the history of pirates and their lifestyle. Interesting diagrams on how much compensation a pirate received for the loss of a limb and the parts of a ship. Learn pirate lingo, too.
These pages provide a general history on piracy and biographies on several of the more well-known pirates: Morgan, Blackbeard, Kidd, Roberts, and Rackham. Information on the mysterious Oak Island is also included. The Home button will take you to the museum's main page from which you can seek further adventures involving UFOs, lost worlds, dinosaurs, and much more. A wealth of information on pirates, including a detailed look at their weaponry, ships, and haunts. Detailed explanations on punishments, especially keel hauling. P.U.B.C.A.T. (Political Union of Buccaneers, Corsairs, and Associated Trades) This re-enactors group, based in the UK, includes an Encyclopaedia Piratica at its web site. They specialize in piracy during the 1660s and 1670s. There's an extensive dictionary that covers general terms, as well as those pertaining to ships, slang, people, places, weaponry, and money. Of special note is their description of period clothing for those interested in the Age of Buccaneers. Pictures of notorious pirates, but no biographies. Good explanation of pirate ships and flags. For those who "intend to go on account," check out the pirate glossary. An in-depth look at maritime life during the Renaissance and the Sea Dogs who waged war against Spain on Queen Elizabeth's behalf. Within these pages you'll find information on the sailor's life, clothing, types of ships, equipment, biographies, and more. Notorious Pirates This collection of pictures includes images of notorious pirates, battles on sea and land, punishments for pirates, pirates having fun, and documents and maps. Captain William Kidd: His Life and Times A well-organized look at William Kidd's life from his birth to his execution for piracy. Accompanied by good illustrations. Easy to read. Additional pages discuss Kidd's treasure and Paul Hawkins' attempt to locate it. What did Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Grace O'Malley, Ms. Ching Shih, and Charlotte de Berry have in common? They were female pirates. Great color graphics for Grace O'Malley. Without the aid of Elizabeth I's Sea Dogs, England might never have gained mastery over Spain or the sea. This site examines these pirates and their role in defeating the Spanish Armada. Franco's Cybertemple: the Life and Times of Sir Henry Morgan Whether pirate or privateer, Henry Morgan was one of the most successful buccaneers. This page provides a detailed biography of this legendary figure. Rogues gallery of pirates, privateers, and explorers. A 15th-century sailing glossary. Renaissance trade routes. Restored and reconstructed wooden ships. Nautical archeological resources and web sites. A collection of biographies on some of the most infamous pirates in history. Some of the lesser known pirates included here are John Oxenham, Conajee Angria, and Abraham Blauvelt. Other information included at the cove is a general history of pirates, pirate ships and their captains, shipboard duties, and nautical terms. Women Pirates & Privateers Real and Legendary Compiled by author/historian John Richard Stephens, author Joan Druett, Christine Lampe - editor of No Quarter Given , and Ken Kinkor, Acting Director of Expedition Whydah, this is a comprehensive list of women pirates and a few privateers. Chapters from an online book detailing the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Cheng I Sao, and Grace O'Malley. Pirate Literature Dead Men Tell No Tales (formerly The Pirate's Library) Searching for great books on pirates? Fern Canyon Press goes beyond a mere list of in-print and hard-to-find titles for adults and children. They provide a detailed summary of over seventy books and post their tables of content. You'll also find complete online texts with graphics of pirate classics, including Treasure Island , Robinson Crusoe , and Sandokan . I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius A journalist's first-hand account, originally published in 1930, of sailing with Chinese pirates led by a female captain. The authors of Terry and the Pirates fashioned their character, The Dragon Lady, after Lai Choi San, the female pirate in this account. Lisa Jensen's Pirate Film Reviews "From Captain Blood to Captain Hook to Captain Ron, from Long John Silver to Yellowbeard, I let you know which ones you can't afford to miss and alert you to possible disappointments," Lisa says. She also includes a section on upcoming movies as well. A professional film critic for twenty-seven years, Lisa combines her expertise with her passion - movies of maritime piracy. Piratical and Privateering Books in English Compiled by Larry Voyer, this is an extensive list of books about pirates. There are separate sections on pirates in children's books and in fiction. Larry welcomes additional titles for inclusion. The only drawback of this site is that the graphics make it exceedingly slow to load. Reefs, Wrecks, & Rascals: the Pirate Legacy of the Spanish Main Virtual exhibit of early books and manuscripts from the Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Among the items are a 1600 map of Sir Francis Drake's attack on Santo Domingo, James I's proclamation to hunt pirates, a 1684 copy of Alexandre Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America, a 1680 document describing Sir Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello, and early publications written by buccaneers and privateers.
Punishment General Print resources Braithwaite, John. Crime, shame and reintegration . 364.601 BRA Culpin, Christopher. Crime and punishment through time . 364.9 CUL Healey, Kaye. Crime & punishment. 364.994 CRI Lyons, Lewis. The history of punishment . 364.67 LYO Rothman, David J. The Oxford history of the prison : the practice of punishment in Western society . 365.9 OXF Scott, George Riley. A history of torture. 364.67 SCO Wilson, Paul R. Issues in crime, morality and justice . 364.994 ISS Websites General encyclopaedic article looking at the meaning of punishment Learn History: Crime punishment and protest thorough time c1450-2004 Ideas about crime, and approaches to law enforcement and punishment in: Ancient Rome; Anglo-Saxon England; Medieval England to c1450. Good visual page. Includes timelines, plenty of pictures. Related to GCSE history Teaching resources from the UK's National Archives Learning Curve. Covers crime, prevention, and punishment in four eras: before 1450, 1450-1750, 20th Century. Based on real documents. Good teaching notes Crimes and criminals of the past Links to short encyclopaedic articles, e.g. instruments of torture, invention of the guillotine, etc. Stories of the law, famous trials, trials without justice, etc. Very brief introduction to early forms & classical civilisations - good for illustrating key terms Eyewitness to history; history through the eyes of those who lived it Searchable data base of British history, well presented encyclopaedic-style articles. Criminal justice history resources Extensive collection of links
1. Babylonian and Egyptian times Print Resources Dunan, Marcel (ed.) Larousse encyclopedia of ancient and medieval history . 930 LAR Hawkes, Jacquetta. Prehistory and the beginnings of civilization. 930.1 HAW Websites You be the judge on Hammurabi's code Designed for grades 4-8 - some interesting ideas Code of Hammurabi [portions only] The Avalon Project : Babylonian Law--The Code of Hammurabi The Ancient World Web: Law_and_Philosophy Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Legal Texts Web links for Western Legal Tradition
2. Ancient Greek and Roman times Print Resources Andrewes, Antony. Greek society . 938 AND Boardman, John. Greece and the hellenistic world . 938 GRE Boardman, John. The Roman world . 938 ROM Green, Peter. A concise history of Ancient Greece to the close of the Classical era . 938 GRE Hennessy, Dianne. Studies in ancient Greece. 938.02 STU Markel, Rita J. Your travel guide to ancient Rome. 937.02MAR Rodgers, Nigel. The rise and fall of ancient Rome . 937.02 ROD Websites Visually uninteresting, but good information Some interesting cases revealed in ancient writings & artefacts Possible explanation of the justice "logo" Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
3. Middle Ages - 1200-1450 Print resources Comte, Suzanne. Everyday life in the Middle Ages . 940.1 COM Dunan, Marcel (ed.) Larousse encyclopedia of ancient and medieval history. 930 LAR McKitterick, Rosamond (ed.). The Times medieval world . 909.07 TIM Mundy, John H. & Peter Riesenberg. The medieval town . 940.1 MUN Southern, R.W. The making of the middle ages . 940.1 SOU Thorndike, Lynn. The History of Medieval Europe . 940.1 THO Websites Medieval history - Barbarian codes Includes links to Anglo-Saxon Law, Capitulary of Charlemagne, Lex Frisionum, Germanic law, and Salic law Tyburn Tree website: public execution in early modern England Rosemary Horton links page Citizenship (1066-2003) Medieval law Links to resources Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
4. Elizabethan 1450-1750 Print Resources Day, Nancy. Your travel guide to renaissance Europe . 940.21 DAY Emerson, Kathy Lynn. The writer's guide to everyday life in Renaissance England from 1485-1649 . 942.05 EME Salgado, Gamini. The Elizabethan underworld . 364.9421 SAL Websites General overview of life in Victorian times - not specifically from point of view of crime & punishment. The poor in Elizabethan England The poor in Elizabethan England. Those who had fallen on hard times saw a great increase in crime. Punishment was very severe Crime and punishment in Elizabethan England Good encyclopaedic style article Everyday life in Elizabethan England Includes links to Bloody painful; crime and punishment in Elizabethan England; Crime and punishment; Torture and punishment Origins and growth of parliament Student site with some interesting links
5. Industrial revolution - 1750-1900 Print Resources Tobias, J.J. Crime and industrial society in the 19th century . 364.942 TOB Websites Quotations from the first part of The Insitutes of The Laws of England , by Sir Edward Cloke Lauues and libertyes of Massachusetts (1648) The Age of Empire, the growth of the Commons Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1834 Searchable database **great Modern History Sourcebook: Beccaria: Crimes and Punishments Includes images and extracts from documents About the life and work of a woman who became famous for her efforts to reform the prison system in Britain in the early nineteenth century. Boring site Includes images Origins and growth of parliament Making sense of English law enforcement in the 18th century Very dry essay for students
Witches Bibliography: Witchcraft and Drama
You should be aware that most of the books recommended for this course are in the Bedford Library (History section), at the shelf mark 301.542 (plus the first three letters of the author's name, usually). You should also note that the Library shelves History MA theses (eg, Magda Sterling, 'The Children of Witches'). Some of these may be of interest to you, but you will of course be aware of the different academic status of the author. Cite them in the normal form if you do consult such theses. Priority reading=*
Ankarloo, Bengt, and Gustav Henningsen (eds.), Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). This book is chiefly important for its inclusion of the essay by Ginzburg (below). Barry, Jonathan, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Briggs, Robin, Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (New York: Viking, 1996). Note that the Library also has offprints of his chapter 7: 'Men against Women' Clark, Stuart, Thinking with Demons: the Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). An immense study at 680+ pages. Does the inescapable 'Women and witchcraft' topic at pp.106-133. The Library also has offprints of this important chapter. In JSTOR: Clark, Stuart, (ed.), Languages of Witchcraft (Macmillan, 2001). Jorden, Edward, Mary Glover Case, and Michael MacDonald (eds.), Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London (London: Tavistock/Routledge, 1991). Gibson, Marion, Early Modern Witches: Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing (Routledge, 2000) Gibson, Marion, Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches (Routledge, 1999) Ginzburg, Carlo, 'Deciphering the Sabbath' in Ankarloo Bengt and Gustav Henningsen (eds.). Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries (as above, pp.121-37). Ginzburg, Carlo, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath (translation of his Storia Notturna , 1989) by Raymond Rosenthal, 1991. Speculative; immense historical perspective on those who thought they battled against 'the armies of the night', a thrilling book in itself, though irrelevant to these plays and what they depict. * Greenblatt, Stephen, Shakespeare Bewitched in Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds (eds), New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History (Princeton University Press, 1993), pp.108-35 , or in Susan Zimmerman (ed.), Shakespeare's Tragedies: Contemporary Critical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1998). [824D Sha] *Harris, Anthony, Night's Black Agents: Witchcraft and Magic in 17th century English Drama (Manchester, 1979). Lamer, Christina, Enemies of God: the Witch-hunt in Scotland (1981) Lamer, Christina, Witchcraft and Religion (1984)
Levack, Brian P., The Witchcraft Sourcebook (Routledge, 2003-4). On order for library, publication date was listed as Dec 2003. Macfarlane, Alan, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: a regional and comparative study (London: Routledge, 1970). A closely sociological study, largely about witches in Essex. Analyses closely the progression from suspicion to ill reputation to bringing of the final charge of witchcraft: it was not usually a single extraordinary occurrence that prompted accusation. Maxwell-Stuart, P. G., Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800 (Palgrave, 2001). This brief account could be a rival to Scarre's monograph as a short introduction to the historical phenomenon of witchcraft, and possibly should be * marked as essential (but I haven't seen it yet) Normand, Lawrence, Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland (Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2000) Normand, Lawrence, 'Witches, King James, and The Masque of Queens in Representing Women in Renaissance England ed. Claude Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (University of Missouri Press, 1997). Oldridge, Darren, The Witchcraft Reader (Routledge, 2003). Collection of important articles, on order for library. *301.542.Pur: Purkiss, Diane, The Witch in History: early modern and 20th century representations (London: Routledge, 1990). Acerbic, plenty to say about the drama, debunks 'the myth of the burning times' with surprising vigour. Roper, Lyndal, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe (New York and London: Routledge, 1994). Roberts, Gareth, 'The Descendants of Circe: Witches and Renaissance Fictions' in Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.183-206. Rosen, Barbara (ed), Witchcraft , (1969). Earlier version of Marion Gibson's collection of pamphlets. *301.542.Sca: Scarre, Geoffrey, Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th century Europe (Macmillan education, 1987). Recommended: succinct study giving the overall picture. On Reginald Scot, Elizabethan rsity of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). Divided into background on topics like witchcraft in elite mentalities and popular culture, a thematic middle section including 'Women and witchcraft', and an analysis of the decline of belief in witchcraft. West, Robert H, 'The Impatient Magic of Dr. Faustus', English Literary Renaissance, 4 (1974), pp. 218-240. Veteran author of The Invisible World: A Study of Pneumatology in Elizabethan Drama (1939) returns to the fray with a very useful corrective to accounts of the play that he sees as inadequately informed in demonology. Willis, Deborah, Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 1995) EN3012 Witchcraft and Drama: Websites relating to Witchcraft
Searching the internet on 'Witchcraft' leads to scores of sites by practitioners of 'Wicca', eager to sell their wares and potions. Other sites often look like (and are) the hobbies of amateur historians. All too often interesting looking links do not work. The 'luminarium' site is one that literature students should know: www.luminarium.org/renlit/renaissanceinfo.html has a section on witchcraft. Many famous and infamous texts have been posted on the web. Kramer and Sprenger's 'Hammer of the Witches' has gone up at http://malleusmaleficarum.org - useful if you ever want to look at one of the most pernicious books ever to go into print (and avoid modern editions put out by peculiar editors like Montague Summers). One hugely capacious site is at www.nd.edu/~dharley/witchcraft The texts posted here are cross-linked by everybody. There are also vast bibliographies, as this now seems to be the home of 'The Witchcraft Bibliography Project' - a multi-part bibliography, which can be downloaded in sections. Primary and secondary texts are listed together in each alphabetised section; it is all rather discouragingly vast, and only teaches you the titles (in the end). http://members.tripod.com/~Epona_Seaborn/ offers a list of the witchcraft cases of the Medieval period in Britain - ending at 1570, just when it starts to get interesting. But does show the typical Medieval cases of politically conspiratorial dabbling in witchcraft (and, alternately, 'witchcraft' used as a political slur.) At www.arts.ed.ac.uk/witches/index.html scholars are putting together a large database, 'The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft'. The East Anglian witch-hunt of 1645-6 and Matthew Hopkins its chief instigator are profiled at http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/heads/footnotes/footwitch.html There are many other links at http://www.gwdg.de/~olacho/witchhunt.htm . On witchcraft in films, see http://earlymodernweb.org.uk/film/witchtheme.htm One of the rational heroes of the period, Weyer, gets an on-line article devoted to him at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH36/slattery1.html Note that we now have access to texts of all the witchcraft pamphlets on the EEBO site, to which you can link from the library resources (English) page.
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