Witch Hunts in Europe and Croatia in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	15
Seminar	15

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with institutional and non-institutional trials and proceedings for magical crimes in the European and Croatian historical context during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The course will address their foundations and prerequisites from the perspectives of history, ethnology, cultural anthropology, and theology, focusing on the historical development of the legal understanding of magical practices as crimes. It will analyze key figures, works, and events that influenced the initiation, course, and conclusion of this phenomenon in both the European and Croatian historical setting. In this way, students will learn to use historiographical literature and become familiar with contemporary theories on the phenomenology of trials for magical crimes as one of the more controversial phenomena in European and Croatian history.

1. Explain theoretical approaches to the study of trials for magical crimes.
2. Define all concepts from the phenomenology of trials for magical crimes covered in the course.
3. Interpret the mutual influences between Europe and the Croatian historical context in matters of magical crimes.

1. Magija na hrvatskome povijesnom prostoru, Deniver Vukelić, Školska knjiga, 2021.
2. Hrvati u procesima mletačke inkvizicije, Lovorka Čoralić, Dom i svijet, Institut za hrvatsku povijest, 2001.
3. "Dokumenti o ukinuću torture i o ukinuću smrtne kazne u onim jugoslavenskim zemljama koje su u XVIII. stoljeću bile u sklopu Habsburške monarhije", Vladimir Bayer, JAZU, 1987.
4. Ugovor s Đavlom, Vladimir Bayer, Zora, 1982.

1. Magija u srednjem vijeku, , Richard Kieckhefer, Nebula, 2017.
2. The witch-hunt in early modern Europe, , Brian P. Levack, Longman, 1995.
3. "Which Woman is a Witch? The Stereotypic Notions About Witches in Croatian Traditional Beliefs", , Luka Šešo, Studia ethnologica Croatica 24, 2012.
4. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies, Vol. I., , Bengt Ankarloo; Stuart Clark, ur., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
5. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, Vol. II., , Bengt Ankarloo; Stuart Clark, , ur., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

POV (17191) - Izborni predmeti: Povijest ranoga novoga vijeka i 19.st. - Regular studij - History
POV (17191) - Izborni predmeti: Povijest ranoga novoga vijeka i 19.st. - Regular studij - History

POV (17191) - Izborni predmeti: Povijest ranoga novoga vijeka i 19.st. - Regular studij - History
POV (17191) - Izborni predmeti: Povijest ranoga novoga vijeka i 19.st. - Regular studij - History