There is also a talk by a fellow Dane, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, on Looking for the Devil: Lay and Inquisitorial Witchcraft Persecution in the Seventeenth Century.
On several occasions, particularly on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries, dead people were suspected of being revenants or vampires, and consequently dug up and destroyed. Some contemporary authors named this phenomenon Magia Posthuma. This blog is dedicated to understanding what happened and why.
Monday, 9 February 2009
Sixteenth Century Conference
The Sixteenth Century & Conference hosts a conference in Geneva on May 28-30 this year. Among the talks listed in the preliminary program is The Construction of the Vampire in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Michael Pickering from The University of Melbourne!
There is also a talk by a fellow Dane, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, on Looking for the Devil: Lay and Inquisitorial Witchcraft Persecution in the Seventeenth Century.
There is also a talk by a fellow Dane, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, on Looking for the Devil: Lay and Inquisitorial Witchcraft Persecution in the Seventeenth Century.
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