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Thomas Robisheaux

Thomas Robisheaux

Professor Emeritus of History
History
trobish@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
202 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00 (202 Carr or the Perk)  

Scholarly Works - Books

L’ultima strega

Book · 2011 Italian translation of The Last Witch of Langenburg (2009) ... Cite

The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Villages

Book · 2009 On the night of the festive holiday of Shrove Tuesday in 1672 Anna Fessler died after eating one of her neighbor’s buttery cakes. Could it have been poisoned? Drawing on vivid court documents, eyewitness accounts and an early autopsy report, this book the ... Cite

The Craft of Microhistory

Book · 2009 What problems does does microhistory solve for historians since “the linguistic turn”? "Microhistory" examines this historical method from its invention in the 1970s in Italy to its widespread use today among historians of many fields. The book explores fi ... Cite

Living with Witches: Six Interdisciplinary Essays

Book · 2009 A set of essays exploring five aspects of early modern European witchcraft: narrative and witchcraft; identity and confession; law and evidence; forensic medicine and poison; the sacral state and witchcraft; and witchcraft and the witch hunt in the early m ... Cite