Week one – What is a witch?
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MembershipHistoryExtra Academy video lecture: What is a witch? with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
In the first lecture of the HistoryExtra Academy history of witchcraft course, Professor Marion Gibson explores attitudes to witchcraft between the 15th and 18th centuries, and looks at some of the reasons why someone might find themselves at the centre of a witch trial
MembershipJames VI and I: the king who hunted witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Tracy Borman reveals how James VI and I's obsession with devilry consigned hundreds of unfortunates to the flames
MembershipWitchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
They tortured, tricked and terrorised suspects into confessions, often with undisguised relish. So, asks Marion Gibson, should the witchfinders of 16th and 17th-century Europe be dismissed as sadists and charlatans, or did they genuinely believe they were doing the right thing?
Membership8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Professor Owen Davies addresses eight popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe
MembershipElizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Marion Gibson explores what a 1580s witchcraft trial can reveal about poverty, social tensions and ordinary life in early modern England
MembershipHistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week one. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
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