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Lecture and Seminar Programme

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  Week Seminar topics

Autumn Term

1

No Classes

Introductions
2

Writing a history of deviance

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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

6

Reading Week - no classes

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

7 Leprosy, early modern epidemics and 'the diseased'
8 Mental illness and disabled persons
9 The Poor, homeless and arsonists

 

10 Criminals, bandits and pirates
     

Summer Term

1 Migrants and Gypsy/Romani/Traveller communities
2 Conclusions