New ejournal: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 2006-

Magic ritual and witchcraft coverOxford users now have access to the electronic Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, v 1(1) 2006- (ISSN: 1556-8547).

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, this scholarly journal “draws from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering the widest possible geographical scope and chronological range, from prehistory to the modern era and from the Old World to the New. In addition to original research, the journal features book reviews, editorials, and lists of newly published work.”

A great journal for those researching witchcraft or first-year historians who have signed up for next term’s Optional Subject Witch-craft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.

Here is a sample table of Contents for vol. 8 (1), summer 2013:

Foreword: On Shamans, Witches, and Stories
Claire Fanger

Nocturnal Journeys and Ritual Dances in Bernardino of Siena 4
Michael D Bailey

Burchard’s strigae, the Witches’ Sabbath, and Shamanistic Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe 18
Emma Wilby

Ritualized Violence against Sorcerers in Fifteenth-Century France
Aleksandra Pfau

Stephen Mitchell’s Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages An Assessment and Appreciation
Ronald Hutton

Magic and Witchcraft Historicized, Localized, and Ethnicized: A Response to Stephen Mitchell’s Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Thomas A. Dubois

DigiDocs and the phasing out of print document packs

Optional, Further and Special Subject set texts that were previously available as photocopied document packs are now being scanned and made available online. These can be accessed under ‘Resources’ on the HFL WebLearn space. You will need to use your Single-Sign On to log-in.

As these documents will soon be freely available online the HFL will be ceasing its production of new print photocopied packs. Existing stocks will be sold off at a discounted rate until they are all used up. We will therefore also no longer be buying back document packs from students for resale. Any readers with special needs will still be able to request printed copies of individual documents if they wish, please email library.history@bodleian.ox.ac.uk to request these.

DigiDocs update 4: OS Nobility & gentry in England / Industrialization in Britain & France

The following document packs  are now electronically available for Oxford History students on the HFL Weblearn site.

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DigiDocs update 1: OS Revolution and Empire in France / OS English Chivalry

The following document pack s are now electronically available for Oxford History students on the HFL Weblearn site.

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