Truth, Evidence and the Law in the Early Modern Witchcraft Trials

Week 7

Tutor: Naomi Pullin

This seminar...

Required preparation

Seminar questions

Key texts

Gaskill, Malcolm. “Witchcraft and Evidence in Early Modern England.” Past & Present, no. 198, 2008, pp. 33–70.

Primary sources

Further reading

Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (1990).

Mark Knights, The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (2011).

Rachel Weil, A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England (2014).