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 131-445 The European Witch Hunt, 1400-1700

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Ms E Kent

Semester

2

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

A study of the social, legal and religious processes by which popular sorcery was transformed into the belief system and crime of witchcraft in early modern Europe; and how the moral panics and large scale persecution of witches helped shape gender and sexuality within European culture.

Assessment

Written work amounting to no more than 6000 words.

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