Core Paper

 

Interdisciplinary seminar 2009/10

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Interdisciplinary seminar 2008/09

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Interdisciplinary seminar 2007/08

Suzannah Biernoff, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2002)

Caroline Walker Bynum, ‘Seeing and Seeing beyond: the Mass of St Gregory in the Fifteenth Century’ in The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theology in the Middle Ages, ed. Anne-Marie Bouche and Jeffrey F.Hamburger, pp.208-40 (Princeton, 2005)

Michael Camille, Gothic Art: Visions and Revelations of the Medieval World (London, 1996)

Mary Carruthers, The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge, 1998)

Jeffrey Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley, 1997)

Herbert Kessler, Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God’s Invisibility in Medieval Art (Philadelphia, 2000)

Barbara Newman, ‘What did it mean to say ‘I saw’: The Clash between Theory and Practice in Medieval Visionary Culture’, Speculum 80 (2005), pp.1-43.

 

Option Papers

 

Magic and witchcraft in medieval western Christendom

Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An analysis of Concept(s) of Pollution and Taboo, with a new preface by the author (London: Routledge, 2002)

Mary Douglas, ed., Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations (London: Routledge, 2004)

Dyan Elliott, Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia, U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)

Valerie Flint, The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991)

James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, ed. by Theodor Gaster (New York: Criterion Books, 1959)

Karen Louise Jolly e.a., The Athlone History of Magic and Witchcraft in Europe: The Middle Ages (London: Athlone, 2002)

Karen Louise Jolly e.a., Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context (Chapel Hill: North Carolina Press, 1996)

Richard Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: CUP, 1989, rev. ed. 2000)

Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Stroud: Sutton, 1997)

Richard Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture (London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1976)

Venetia Newall, ed., The Witch Figure (London, Boston: Routledge and K. Paul, 1973)

R. Po-Chia Hsia, ‘Witchcraft, Magic and the Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany’, in From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought, ed. by Jeremy Cohen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997)

Catherine Rider, Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (Oxford: OUP, 2006)

David Rollo, Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)

Jeffrey Burton Russell, A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981, repr. 1991)

Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1981)

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England (London: Penguin, 1973)

Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, vols 1-3 (New York, 1976)

Scott L. Waugh, Peter Diehl, eds, Christendom and Its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution and Rebellion 1000-1500 (Cambridge: CUP, 1996), see Kieckhefer’s article in particular

 

Wife and mother: the Marian matrix

Bynum, C.W., Jesus as Mother, Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1982)

K.E.Haney, ‘The Immaculate Imagery in the Winchester Psalter’ Gesta 20 (1981) 111-118

Clayton, M., The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1990)

Duffy, E. The Voices of Morebath: reformation and rebellion in an English village (New Haven and London, 2001)

Graef, H. Mary: a history of doctrine and devotion (London, 1985)

Iogna-Prat, D., E. Palazzo & D. Russo,(eds) Marie: le Culte de la Vierge dans la Societé Médiévale (Paris, 2006)

Morris, R. Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England (Stroud, 2004)

Verdier, P. Le Couronnement de la Vierge: les origins et les premiers developpements d’un theme iconographique (Montreal, 1980)

 

medieval studies option

 

 

medieval studies option