Dr Jonathan Durrant
Senior Lecturer/Award LeaderFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL
UK
Tel 01443 482554
Room: FH112
Qualifications
BA (Hons) History (London)
MA in Women’s History (London)
PhD (London)
About
Main Teaching Areas: early modern history; gender history; history of witchcraft and deviance; history as entertainment
Research
Witchcraft and gender in early modern Germany; witchcraft experiences in Germany, England, Gdansk and Wales; masculinity and warfare in early seventeeth-century Germany; early modern history as entertainment.
I am happy to look at proposals for postgraduate research into various aspects of early modern social and cultural history in Germany, England or Wales. These include, but are not limited to, gender, masculinity, friendship, witchcraft and fear. I will also consider proposals to research into the representation of early modern history on film and TV and in museums and other heritage sites.
Selected Publications
‘The Osculum Infame: Heresy, Secular Culture and the Image of the Witches’ Sabbath’, in Karen Harvey (ed.), The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp.36-59
‘Friendship in Catholic Reformation Eichstätt’, in Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds.), Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp.66-87
‘Eichstätt, Prince-Bishopric of’, ‘Executions’ and ‘Jailers’, in Richard Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 2, E-J (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp.307-8, 335-6 and 582-3 respectively. [Winner of the 2007 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Reference Book on the Early Modern Period, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference]
‘Kiss of Shame’, in Richard Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 3, K-P (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006), pp. 611-12
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
External representation
Leader of the History Research Wales project “The research impact agenda and early career development for historians: a pilot study” (funded by Vitae)
Editor of the Witchcraft Bibliography Project Online (www.witchcraftbib.co.uk) and its associated blog (http://witchcraftbib.blogspot.com/).
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