Hi262: Witches and Demons

**Date**:May 22, 2025

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts

**Department**: History

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9548

**Position Title**:HI262: Witches and Demons (Fall 2025)**:
**Term**: Fall 2025: (Sept 1 - Dec 31)

**Days/Times**: Mon/Wed 1:00-2:20 pm
**Location**: Waterloo

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 per week/36 total
**Type of Course**: In-class

**Anticipated Class Size**: 75

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: May 22, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 6, 2025

**Position Summary**: This course explores the phenomenon of witch-hunts in early modern Europe. While easy to dismiss as a historical aberration, ideas of demons and witchcraft were expressions of the specific political, religious, and social history of the time. Themes will include popular belief in witchcraft and magic, the role of the devil in society, changes in religious belief associated with the Reformation, crime and punishment, the household and the family, gender and sexuality, animals and the natural world, poverty and social disorder.

**Qualifications - Required**: Master’s Degree

**Qualifications - Discipline**: History

**Application Deadline**: June 6, 2025

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Eva Plach, Chair

Department of History
Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario

**To Apply**:
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