Malcolm Gaskill

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• 2021

  The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World

  Gaskill, M., 4 Nov 2021, Penguin Books. 240 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2018

  Dining with Ivan the Terrible: London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City by Stephen AlfordAllen Lane, 316 pp, £20.00, April 2017, ISBN 978 0 241 00358 9

  Gaskill, M., 8 Feb 2018, In: London Review of Books. 40, 3, p. 37-38 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• The Fear and Loathing of Witches

  Gaskill, M., 29 Aug 2018, Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft. Page, S. & Wallace, M. (eds.). Ashmolean Museum

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2017

  Afterword: Passions in Perspective

  Gaskill, M., 6 Jan 2017, Emotions in the History of Witchcraft. Kounine, L. & Ostling, M. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave, p. 269-279 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Frances Timbers. The Magical Adventures of Mary Parish: The Occult World of Seventeenth-Century London. Early Modern Studies 16. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2016. Pp. 211. $40.00 (cloth).

  Gaskill, M., Jan 2017, In: Journal of British Studies. 56, 1, p. 172-174 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Little commonwealths II: communities

  Gaskill, M., Feb 2017, A Social History of England, 1500-1700. Wrightson, K. (ed.). Cambridge University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Staunch with Sugar: Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650-1750 by Craig Spence Boydell, 273 pp, £65.00, November 2016, ISBN 978 1 78327 135 1

  Gaskill, M., 7 Sept 2017, In: London Review of Books. 39, 17, p. 31 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Unnatural Rebellion: The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald HuttonYale, 360 pp, £25.00, August, ISBN 978 0 300 22904 2

  Gaskill, M., 2 Nov 2017, In: London Review of Books. 39, 21, p. 17-20 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
• 2016

  Money, Sex, Lies, Magic: The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack. Oxford, 359 pp, £20.00, October 2015, ISBN 978 0 19 873677 6

  Gaskill, M., 30 Jun 2016, In: London Review of Books. 38, 13, p. 29-30 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Silence and suspicion: witchcraft in a seventeenth-century American household

  Gaskill, M., 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

• Steven P. Marrone, A History of Science, Magic & Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe

  Gaskill, M., 1 Oct 2016, In: European History Quarterly. 46, 4, p. 758-759 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• The demonstration of witchcraft: emotion and proof in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England. By Peter Elmer. Oxford University Press. 2016. x + 369pp. £65.00

  Gaskill, M., Dec 2016, In: History. 101, 348, p. 785-787 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
• 2015

  The personification of witchcraft: Emotion, identity and reality in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., 2015.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• 2014

  Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

  Gaskill, M., 20 Nov 2014, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 484 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2013

  Witchcraft and Neighbourliness in Early Modern England

  Gaskill, M., 5 Jul 2013, Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England. Hindle, S. (ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell Press, p. 211-232 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2010

  Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction

  Gaskill, M., 2010, Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2009

  Fear made flesh: the English witch-panic of 1645-7

  Gaskill, M., 2009, Moral Panics, the Press and the Law in Early Modern England. Lemmings, D. & Walker, C. (eds.). Palgrave

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Masculinity and witchcraft in seventeenth-century England

  Gaskill, M., 2009, Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe. Rowlands, A. (ed.). Palgrave

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2008

  The Pursuit of Reality: Recent research into the reality of witchcraft

  Gaskill, M., Dec 2008, In: Historical Journal. 51, 4, p. 1069-1088 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Witchcraft, emotion and imagination in the English civil war

  Gaskill, M., 2008, Witchcraft and the Act of 1604. Newton, J. & Bath, J. (eds.). Brill

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Witchcraft and evidence in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., Feb 2008, In: Past and Present. 198, 1, p. 33-70 38 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  33 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  Witchcraft, politics and memory in seventeenth-century England

  Gaskill, M., Jun 2007, In: Historical Journal. 50, 2, p. 289-308 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

  Gaskill, M., Oct 2007, Harvard University Press. 384 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2006

  Time's Arrows: Context and Anachronism in the History of Mentalities

  Gaskill, M., Dec 2006, In: Scientia Poetica. 10, p. 237-53 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2003

  Mentalities from crime: listening to witnesses in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., 2003, Droit et Societé en France et en Grande-Bretagne XIIe–XXe Siècles. Chassaigne, P. & Genet, J-P. (eds.). Publications de la Sorbonne, p. 91-101 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Matthew Hopkins Trials

  Gaskill, M., 2003, Pickering and Chatto.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2002

  New directions in the history of crime and the law in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., 2002, Crime, Gender and Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions. Knafla, L. A. (ed.). Greenwood Press, p. 147-169 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2001

  Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches

  Gaskill, M., 2 Apr 2001, 1 ed. Fourth Estate. 402 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Witches and Witnesses in old and New England

  Gaskill, M., 2001, Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture. Clark, S. (ed.). Macmillan, p. 55-80 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2000

  Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England

  Gaskill, M., 2000, Cambridge University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Witches and witchcraft prosecutions, 1560-1660

  Gaskill, M., 2000, Early Modern Kent 1540-1640. Zell, M. (ed.). Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, p. 245-77 33 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 1998

  Reporting murder: fiction in the archives in early modern England

  Gaskill, M., Jan 1998, In: Social History. 23, 1, p. 1-30 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  19 Citations (Scopus)

• The devil in the shape of a man: witchcraft, conflict and belief in Jacobean England

  Gaskill, M., Jun 1998, In: Historical Research. 71, 175, p. 142-171 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
  23 Citations (Scopus)
• 1996

  The displacement of providence: policing and prosecution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England

  Gaskill, M., Jan 1996, In: Continuity and Change. 11, p. 341-74 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations

  Gaskill, M., 1996, Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief. Barry, J., Hester, M. & Roberts, G. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 257-87 31 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 1994

  Witchcraft and power in early modern England: the case of Margaret Moore

  Gaskill, M., 1994, Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. Routledge, p. 125-45 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 1993

  "Crime, the law, and the state": University of Essex/Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Comparative History Summer School, 6-10 July 1992

  Gaskill, M. & Meldrum, T., Jan 1993, In: Social History. 18, 1, p. 87-92 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article