Jonathan Durrant

Publications

Books

• with Michael D. Bailey (eds.), Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (2^nd edn.; Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012)
• Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany (Leiden: Brill, 2007) – available free to download
• “Witchcraft, Gender and Society in the Early Modern Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt” (PhD thesis, Royal Holloway, 2002; supervised by Prof Lyndal Roper)

Articles, book chapters, reviews

• “El final de la caza de brujas en Occidente,” Desperta Ferro Arqueología e Historia, no. 59 Brujería (February-March 2025), pp. 44-49
• “What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?,” Historical Association (10 September 2024)
• “Five Witchcraft Myths Debunked by an Expert,” The Conversation (31 October 2023)
• Review of Frank Sobiech, Jesuit Prison Ministry in the Witch Trials of the Holy Roman Empire: Friedrich Spee SJ and his Cautio Criminalis (1631), Seventeenth-Century News (2022)
• “A Witch-Hunting Magistrate? Brian Darcy and the St Osyth Witchcraft Cases of 1582,” English Historical Review 136 (2021), pp. 26-54
• “‘All is Hay’: Imaginary Witches and Their Pitchforks in Sixteenth-Century Art,” Academia.edu (December 2020)
• “Fantasies of Witches and Soldiers’ Wives in Baroque Germany,” in Eavan O’Brien (ed.), Representing Authority in the Early Modern World (Roma: Aracne editrice, 2013), pp. 187-220
• “Why Some Men and Not Others? The Male Witches of Eichstätt,” in Alison Rowlands (ed.), Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 100-120
• “Eichstätt, Prince-Bishopric of,” “Executions,” and “Jailers,” in Richard M. Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 2 E-J (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006), pp. 307-308, 335-336, and 582, respectively
• “Kiss of Shame,” in Richard M. Golden (ed.), Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition, vol. 3 K-P (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006), pp. 611-612
• “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
• “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

Media

• Lead and convenor, “Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History”, Historical Association Short Course, September-December 2024 (with Laura Kounine, Jan Machielsen, Lisa tallis and Juliette Wood)
• Tony Robinson’s Gods and Monsters, Episode 4 Witches (17 November 2012) – top-rated on IMDB
• Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 (2001) – discussing the kiss of shame (no archive recording available, unfortunately)