For a full reading list, including background reading for each seminar session, look at the weekly topics on the module moodle pageLink opens in a new window.

The weekly seminar readings should be your first port of call, not Google or Wikipedia.

Key reference works used in this module

Bartlett, Robert, 'Medieval and Early Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity', Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 31 (2001), 39-56

Bingham, Caroline, ‘Seventeenth-Century Attitudes Toward Deviant Sex’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1 (1971), 447-68

W.J. Bouwsma, ‘Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture’, in B.C. Malament (ed.), After the Reformation (Manchester, 1980), pp. 215-46

Dillinger, Johannes, ‘Terrorists and Witches: Popular Ideas of Evil in the Early Modern Period’, History of European Ideas, 30 (2004), 167-82.

Douglas, Mary, 'Witchcraft and Leprosy: Two Strategies of Exclusion', Man, 26 (1991), 723-36.

Gibbs, Jack P. ‘Conceptions of Deviant Behaviour: The Old and the New’, in M. Lefton et al (eds), Approaches to Deviance (New York, 1968), pp. 44-55

Grell, P. Ole and B. Scribner (eds), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge, 1996)

Jütte, Robert, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1994).

Kagan, Richard L. and A. Dyer (eds), Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (Baltimore, 2004)

Kaplan, Benjamin J., Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2007).

Kauffmann, Miranda, Black Tudors: The Untold Story (2017).

Laursen, J. C. and C.J. Nederman (eds), Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Tolerance before the Enlightenment (Philadelphia, 1998)

Lewis, R. B., Cultures and Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (Oxford, 1995).

Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook (2nd ed., 2015)

Milner, S. J., (ed), At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Minneapolis, 2005), esp. chaps. 1 and 2

Naphy, W. G. and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997)

Oldridge, Darren, Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance WorldsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (London: Routledge, 2005)

Otele, Olivette, African Europeans: An Untold History (2020).

O'Reilly, William, ‘Turks and Indians on the Margins of Europe’, Belleten, 65 (2001), 243-56.

Park, K. and L. J. Daston, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (New York, 1997).

Pullin, Naomi and Kathryn Woods (eds.), Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550-1800 (2021).

Schorsch, Jonathan, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (2004).

Sharpe, J. A. 'Witches and Persecuting Societies', Journal of Historical Sociology, 3 (1990), 75-86.

Spicer, Andrew and Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw (eds.), The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750 (2017).

Alexandra Walsham, Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 (Manchester, 2006).