Additional readings (books and articles) will be assigned to individual classes. Please turn off all cell phones or beepers before class begins. If your cell phone rings in class, you will be asked to ...

In the early part of the Middle Ages, authorities were largely unconcerned about it. A church document from the early 10th century proclaimed that “sorcery and witchcraft” might be real ...

Let us travel back in time now to the Middle Ages and hear about some of these mysterious tales of a biological bomb, the downfall of a dynasty, and why a bank in Tokyo opened an account in the ...

By the end of the middle ages, a view of women as especially susceptible to witchcraft had emerged. The notion that a witch might travel by broomstick (especially when contrasted with the male who ...

According to Murrayites, the Christians tried very hard to stamp out heathenry in the British Isles: hence the spate of witchcraft trials in the Middle Ages. (The witches weren’t actually ...

The fear of witchcraft led to centuries of persecution and executions across Europe. While there were an estimated 500 executions in England, and between 3,000 and 4,000 killings in Scotland ...