SPIRITS, GHOSTS, AND DEMONS

Topics

• Lecture 1: Course Introduction
• Lecture 2: Haunted History & Ancient Spirits
• Christopher Partridge, “Haunted Culture: The Persistence of Belief in the Paranormal,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures, 2013.
• Teddy Bader, “Early Egyptian Medicine,” in Which Treatment is Best? Spoof or Proof? CRC Press, 2023.
• Pliny the Younger, Letter to Susa, Ghost Story.
• Andrew Joynes, “Ghosts and Monks”, in Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies (Boydell Press, 2001).
• Nick Groom, "Introduction," in The Vampire: A New History (Yale University Press, 2018).
• Owen Davies, “The Geography of Haunting,” in The Haunted: The Social History of Ghosts , Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
• Lecture 6: Enchantment and the Rational Turn of the Enlightenment
• Warner, “Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers,” in Phantasmagoria , 2006.