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Bibliography, Historiography, and Reference The Witchcraft Bibliography Project grew out of, and is still about one tenth,the work of Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His purpose was to collect and disseminate bibliographical information about books and articles in many languages about witchcraft in early modern Europe. He started collecting the information while in graduate school to support a pair of lectures on early modern witchcraft and science in the European history survey course in which he served as a teaching assistant. After receiving his Ph. D. from Yale, Prof. Merrick taught at Barnard and eventually moved to UWM. He has taught seminars on witchcraft in both places, and continued to expand the bibliography, though he did not attempt to include all of the works published before 1950, nor the literature in languages he did not read. By August of 1996 Dr. Merrick found himself too occupied with other projects to continue maintenance and expansion of the bibliography. He chose to turn over that task to Richard M. Golden, then Chair of the Department of History, the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas). Richard Golden has been responsible for overseeing the maintenance and expansion of the existing bibliography and enlarging the geographical and chronological scope. The bibliography is available on the UNT History Department Web site. Dr. Golden is seeking someone to assume responsibility for maintaining and expanding the bibliography. If interested, contact him at [email protected] Table of Contents Bibliography, Historiography, and Reference General Social Sciences Demonology Magic Women Eastern Europe England and Wales France Germany Ireland Italy The Low Countries Russia Scandinavia Scotland Spain and Portugal Switzerland Art and Literature Modern Editions United States Bibliography, Historiography, and Reference The symbols "?" and "#" indicate missing information. Anderson, Perry. "Witchcraft." London Review of Books 8 Nov. 1990: 6-11. Bann, Stephen. The Clothing of Clio: A Study of Representations of History in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. __________. The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Barry, Jonathan. "Keith Thomas and the Problem of Witchcraft." In Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts, eds. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 1-48. Bauer, D. R., et al., eds. "Hexenforschung: Eine Einführung zur Reihe." In D. R. Bauer and Sönke Lorenz, eds. Das Ende der Hexenverfolgungen. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1995. ix-xvi. Behringer, Wolfgang. "Erträge und Perspektiven der Hexenforschung." Historische Zeitschrift 249 (1988): 619-40. __________. "Witchcraft Studies in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland." In Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, and Gareth Roberts, eds. Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 64-95. __________. "Zur Geschichte der Hexenforschung." In Sönke Lorenz, ed. Hexen und Hexenverfolgung im deutschen Südwesten. Ostfildern: Cantz, 1994. 94-146. Black, George F. "List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Witchcraft in the United States." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 12 (1908): 658-75. Blécourt, Willem de. "Witch Doctors, Soothsayers, and Priests: On Cunning Folk in European Historiography and Tradition." Social History 19 (1994): 285-303. Braukmann, Werner. "Hexenbild und Hexenverfolgung: Aregung, ein verdrängtes Thema im Geschichtsunterricht zu Behandeln." Geschichtsdidaktik 6 (1981): 175-93. Burr, George Lincoln. "The Literature of Witchcraft." American Historical Association Papers 4 (1889-90): 235-66. Burstein, Sona. "Some Modern Books on Witchcraft." Folklore 72 (1961): 520-34. Butler, Jon. "Witchcraft, Healing, and Historians' Crazes." Journal of Social History 18 (1984): 111-8. 15ff. Cavendish, Richard. Man, Myth, and Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown. Toronto: Marshall Cavendish, 1985. Christensen, Jens and Jens Christian V. Johansen. "Men mon de ikke var skyldige . ." Fortid og Nutid 29 (1981): page# Crowe, Martha J. Catalogue of the Witchcraft Collection in the Cornell University Library. Millwood: KJO Press, 1971. CSD. A Concise Scots Dictionaryk. Edited by Mairi Robinson. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1985. Del Cervo, Diana M., ed. Witchcraft in Europe and America: Guide to the Microfilm Collection. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1983. Dienst, Heide. "Von Sinn und Nutzen multidiziplinärer Auswertung von Zaubereiprozessakten: Zur Entstehung einer diesbezüglichen Databank in österreich." Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 100 (1992): 354-75. Ericson, Eric. The World, the Flesh, the Devil: A Biographical Dictionary of Witches. New York: Mayflower, 1981. Estes, Leland. "Incarnation of Evil: Changing Perspectives on the European Witch Craze." Clio 13 (1984): 133-47. Ferreiro, Alberto. "Simon Magus: The Patristic-Medieval Traditions and Historiography." Apocrypha 7 (1996): 147-65. Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous Historym. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948, 1970. New York: Norton, 1948, 1969. Glacken, Clarence. J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967, 1973, 1976, 1990. Glanvill, Joseph. Plus Ultra: Or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge Since the Days of Aristotle: In an Account of Some of the Most Remarkable Late Improvements of Practical, Useful, Learning. London: J. Collins, 1668. Grässe, Johann G. T. Biblotheca Magica et Pneumatica. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1843. Reprint. Hildesheim: Olms, 1960. Graf, Klaus. "Carlo Ginzburg's Hexensabbat: Herausforderung an die Methodendiskussion der Geschichtswissenschaft." Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 5 (1993): 1-16. See also Herr Dr. Klaus Graf's Home Page, and his Hexen page. Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft. New York: Facts on File, 1989. Harmening, Dieter. "Himmlers Hexenkartei: Ein Lagebericht zu ihrer Erforschung." Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 12 (1989): 99-112. Hawthorn, Geoffrey. Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 2nd ed., 1987. Hehl, Ulrich von. "Hexenprozesse und Geschichtswissenschaft." Historisches Jahrbuch 107 (1987): 349-75. Hess, Albert. "Hunting Witches: A Survey of Some Recent Literature." Criminal Justice History 3 (1982): 47-79. Hobsbawm, Eric J. and Terence O. Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1992. Hodgen, Margaret T. The Doctrine of Survivals: A Chapter in the History of Scientific Method in the Study of Man. London: Allenson & Co., Ltd., 1936. Folcroft Library ed., 1977. Norwood ed., 1978. Hone, William, ed. The Year Book. London: Thomas Tegg, 1831-2, 1864. Johansen, Jens Christian V. "Tavshed er guld . en historiograf- isk oversigt over amerikansk og europaesk heksetrosforskning 1966-1981." Dansk Historisk Tidsskrift 81 (1981): ? Le Brun, Pierre. Histoire critique des practiques superstitieuses. Multivolume. Paris: H. Schelte, 1702. 2nd ed. Paris: Widow of Delaulne, 1732. 2nd ed., augmented. Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard, 1733. New ed. Paris: Poirion, 1750. New ed., augmented. Paris: Chez Guillaume Desprez, 1750. Lea, Henry Charles. Materials toward a History of Witchcraft. Arranged and edited by A. C. Howland. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1939, 1971. Leaf, M. J. Man, Mind and Science: A History of Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. LeRoy-Ladurie, Emmanuell. The Mind and Method of the Historian. Translated by Sian Reynolds and Ben Reynolds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Lowe, D. History of Bourgeois Perception. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982. Manuel, Frank E. The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Reprint. New York: Atheneum, 1967. María, Constantino de. Enciclopedia de la magia y de la brujería. Barcelona: De Vecchi, 1984. Maurer, Joseph. Hexenwesen und Satanismus: Eine vergleichende Bibliographie aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Calliano: Manfrini, 1989. Melton, J. Gordon. Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism in America: A Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988. Micale, Mark S. and Roy Porter, eds. Discovering the History of Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Midelfort, H. C. Erik. "Alte Fragen und neue Methoden in der Geschichte des Hexenwahnsm." In D. R. Bauer and Sönke Lorenz, eds. Hexenverfolgungen: Beitrage zur Forschung -- unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des südwestdeutschen Raumes. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1995. __________. "Recent Witch Hunting Research or Where Do We Go from Here?" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 62 (1968): 373-420. __________. "The Renaissance of Witchcraft Research." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 13 (1977): 294-97. __________. "Witchcraft, Magic, and the Occult." In Steven Ozment, ed. Reformation Europe: A Guide to Research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982. 183-209. Monter, E. William. "European Witchcraft: A Moment of Synthesis?" Historical Journal 31 (1988): ? __________. "The Historiography of European Witchcraft: Progress and Prospects." Journal of Interdisciplinary
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