ENG505.001: Medieval Supernatural
Fall 2012
Prof. Eileen Joy
WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY
Figure 1. detail from Hieronymous Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights (1480-1505)
I. Medieval Supernatural
Bailey, Michael David. Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Bartlett, Robert. The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Bildhauer, Bettina and Robert Mills, eds. The Monstrous Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Boureau, Alain. Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West. Trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Bynum, Carolina Walker. "Why All The Fuss About the Body?: A Medievalist's Perspective." Critical Inquiry 22.1
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Bynum, Caroline Walker. Metamorphosis and Identity. New York: Zone Books, 2001.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Caciola, Nancy. Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2003.
Campbell, Mary. The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1991.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1996.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.
Elliott, Dyan. Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Elliott, Dyan. Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Friedman, John Block. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Frilingos, Christopher. Spectacle of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Strickland, Debra Higgs. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton: Princeton
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Jolly, Karen, Catharina Raudvere, and Edwards Peters. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 3: The Middle Ages.
London: Continuum Publishing Group, 2001.
Jones, Timothy S. and David A. Springer, eds. Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern
Imaginations. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press, 2002.
Joynes, Andrew, ed. Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels, and Prodigies. Woodbridge:
Boydell Press, 2006.
Kieckhefer, Richard. European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500.
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Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Kieckhefer, Richard. "The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic in Late Medieval Europe." Journal
of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 24.3 (1994): 355-85.
Kinoshita, Sharon and Peggy McCracken. Marie de France: A Critical Companion. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2012.
Klaniczay, Gabor and Eva Pocs, eds. Communicating with the Spirits. Vol. 1: Demons, Spirits, Witches. Budapest and
and New York: Central European University Press, 2005.
LeGoff, Jacques. The Medieval Imagination. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Lemay, Helen Rodnite, ed. Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De Secretus Mulierum
with Commentaries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
McAvoy, Liz Herbert. Authority and the Female Body in
Miller, Sarah Alison. Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Mitchell, Stephen A. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press, 2011.
Mittman, Asa Simon. Maps and Monsters in Medieval England. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Mittman, Asa Simon and Peter J. Dendle, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous.
Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2012.
Olsen, K.E. and L.A.J.R. Houwen, eds. Monsters and the Monstrous in Medieval Northwest Europe. Leuven, Belgium:
Peeters, 2001.
Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda, ed. Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Pluskowski, Aleksander. Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Eng.: Boydell and
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Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Saunders, Corinne J. Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010.
Schmitt, Jean-Claude. Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society.
Trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994.
Sconduto, Leslie A. Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance.
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Strickland, Debra Higgs. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton: Princeton
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Sullivan, Karen. The Interrogation of Joan of Arc. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science: During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era.
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Verner, Lisa. The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Watkins, C.S. History and the Supernatural in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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II. Modern Supernatural
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Bailey, Michael David. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. Lanham, MD:
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Bennett, Jane. The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University
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Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 1993.
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Eisler, Robert. Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy.
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Freud, Sigmund. The Uncanny. Trans. David McClintock. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
Graham, Elaine L. Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens, and Others in Popular Culture. New
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Grixti, Joseph. Terrors of Uncertainty: The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction. London: Routledge, 1989.
Halberstam, Judith and Ira Livingston, eds. Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
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Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House, 1995.
W. Scott Poole. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and Haunting. Waco: Baylor
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Russell, Jeffrey Burton. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca: Cornell
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Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare. Cambridge: Cambridge
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Tzvetan Todorov. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1975.
Warner, Marina. Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear. Lexington: The University
Press of Kentucky, 1998.