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HISE 3525 Monarchs, Witches, and Heretics: Early Modern England 1485 - 1714 (Hendley) Spring 2024, 3525-01

Librarian: Dr. Mary Lynn Bensen

Finding Primary Sources

When searching print and online access tools, use search terms such as SOURCES, CORRESPONDENCE, PERSONAL NARRATIVES, DIARIES, RECORDS AND CORRESPONDENCE, SERMONS, SPEECHES, PAPERS.

Look for titles of primary sources in secondary sources and in lists included in bibliographies of secondary sources. Use text, class, and library bibliographies for recommended titles or listings of primary sources.

Selected Sources

Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution                                                           DA 400 G22 1906 (Circulating Coll.)

Source-Book of English History                                                                                                DA 32.5 L5 (Circulating Coll.)

English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books                                                          DA 32.5 E6 (Circulating Coll.)

  (published in facsimile)                                                                    

English Historical Documents v. 1 & 2                                                                                    DA 26 E55 (on reserve)

Elizabeth I and Her Age:  Authoritative texts,                                                                       DA 350 E443 2009 (on reserve)

   Commentary and Criticism                                                             

A Documentary History of England                                                                                        DA 26 D55 (on reserve)

Archives Unbound:  Witchcraft in Europe and America                                                     Under Databases on library website

     Refer only to witchcraft in England from 1485 – 1714