Lecture and Seminar Programme
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Week | Seminar topics | |
Autumn Term |
1 |
No Classes |
Introductions | ||
2 |
Writing a history of deviance Refer to the module moodle page for seminar preparation and reading |
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3 | Heresy in early modern Europe: The emergence of a persecuting society | |
Theme 1: Non-European deviants | ||
4 | Europe's Jewish population | |
5 |
Muslims in and beyond Europe |
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6 |
Reading Week - no classes |
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7 | Black Europeans and imperial encounters | |
Theme 2: Religious and supernatural deviants | ||
8 | Protestants, Catholics and the 'radical reformations' | |
9 | Astrologers, prophets and mystics | |
10 | Witches and witch-hunting | |
Spring Term |
1 | Werewolves and the possessed |
2 | Unbelievers and atheists | |
Theme 3: Social and medical deviants | ||
3 | Gender, sex and prostitution | |
4 | Sodomy, cross-dressing and sexual deviance | |
5 | Monsters and hermaphrodites | |
6 |
Reading Week - no classes |
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7 | Leprosy, early modern epidemics and 'the diseased' | |
8 | Mental illness and disabled persons | |
9 | The Poor, homeless and arsonists | |
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10 | Criminals, bandits and pirates |
Summer Term |
1 | Migrants and Gypsy/Romani/Traveller communities |
2 | Conclusions |