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History Compass is pleased to present a Special Virtual Issue on the Occult in History, freely available until the end of the year.
Table of contents as follows:
Astrology in the Middle Ages
Hilary M. Carey
Magic in the Middle Ages: History and Historiography
David J. Collins
Magic and Impotence: Recent Developments in Medieval
Historiography
Catherine Rider
Kabbalah: A Medieval Tradition and Its Contemporary Appeal
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Magic and Divination in the Medieval Islamic Middle East
Edgar Francis
Traditions and Trajectories in the Historiography of European Witch
Hunting
Thomas A. Fudge
A New Trumpet? The History of Women in Scotland 1300–1700
Elizabeth Ewan
Deference and Dissent in Tudor England: Reflections on
Sixteenth-Century Protest
K. J. Kesselring
Sexuality, Witchcraft, and Honor in Colonial Spanish America
Nicole von Germeten
Vaya con Dios: Religion and the Transnational History of the
Americas
Pamela Voekel, Bethany Moreton and Michael Jo
The History of Prophecy in West Africa: Indigenous, Islamic, and
Christian
Joel E. Tishken
The Missionary Impact: The Northern Transvaal in the Late Nineteenth
Century
Alan Kirkaldy
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