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David Wootton

  • Shaman of Oberstdorf: Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer, translated by H.C.Erik Midelfort
  • Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stuart Clark
  • Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England by Alan Macfarlane
  • The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England by James Sharpe

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David Wootton’s Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates will be published by Oxford in June. He teaches early modern history at the University of York, where he is an Anniversary Professor.

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