The Scourge of Demons
November 12, 2012
http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=11795 The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent by: Jeffrey R.…
Jeffrey R. Watt
Teaching and Research Interest: Early Modern Europe, Family, Social Having received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeffrey R. Watt joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 1988. Now holding the rank of Professor of History, he teaches lecture courses on the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the age of Absolutism and Enlightenment and has taught seminars on women and the family in medieval and early modern Europe, historiography of European history to 1815, and early modern social history, and witchcraft. He is the author of The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent (University of Rochester Press, 2009), Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva (Truman State University Press, 2001), The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchâtel, 1550-1800 (Cornell University Press, 1992), and articles in journals such as the Archive for Reformation History, Church History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Family History, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. He has also edited three books: From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 2004); The Long Reformation (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), and (with Isabella M.Watt) Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin, 1551 (Volume 6; forthcoming with Droz in 2011). He is the immediate past president of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.
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