Hist 483O: Witchcraft in Europe – Professor Caroline Boswell

Searching for Books:

• Cofrin Library Catalog
• Universal Borrowing – Also called UB, allows Cofrin Library users to check out books directly from another UW system library (available after 8/17/09).
• WorldCat – Searches the catalogs of libraries all over the world.

Reference Resources (located in the Reference collection on the 3rd floor of the library):

• The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft – REF BF1566 .G85 1999

• Encyclopedia of the Paranormal – REF BF1025 .E54 1996

• Man, Myth & Magic : the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion and the Unknown – REF BF1407 .M34 1995

• Encyclopedia of Religion – REF BL31 .E46 2005

• Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics – REF BL31 .E5

• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion – REF BL310 .F72 1980

• The New Catholic Encyclopedia – REF BX841 .N44 2003

Electronic Resources – If you are accessing Cofrin Library databases from off-campus, you will need to enter your username and password (the same information you use to log on to the campus network).

Electronic primary sources from the Internet and Cofrin Library databases:

• Early English Books Online - From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. Coverage: 1475-1700
• The Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection – The Witchcraft Collection is a rich source for students and scholars of the history of superstition and witchcraft persecution in Europe. It documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives. Most importantly, the collection focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy.
• 18th Century Collections Online – Contains  searchable pages based on the English Short Title Catalogue, a machine readable union list of holdings of the British Library, as well as holdings from university, private and public libraries worldwide. Coverage: 1701-1800
• The Malleus Maleficarum Online – One of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. It was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487. Its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. Note: Cofrin Library also has a copy of this in print.
• Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive -- The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
  

Article Databases:

• JSTOR – JSTOR is unique because the database contains complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in PDF full text format. Many journals reach back to the 1800s. Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 2000.
• Project Muse - Project Muse provides the full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Coverage: 1995 –