Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

123. Warring on the Enemies Within: Persecution and the State in Premodern Europe
Omni Shoreham, Forum Room

Chair: David Nirenberg, Johns Hopkins University

Papers:

Defining the Enemy: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Muddled Business of Living in Fourteenth-Century Languedoc
Louisa A. Burnham, Middlebury College

Warring against Witches: Understandings of Witchcraft in the Late Middle Ages and the Earliest European Witch-Hunts
Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University

Poison and Persecution in Seventeenth-Century Paris: The Crimes of the Affair of the Poisons
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina at Wilmington


Comment: David Nirenberg