H C Erik Midelfort

Biographic Data

ID303717
NAMEH C Erik Midelfort
GIVEN NAMESH C Erik
FAMILY NAMEMidelfort
SIGNATUREMIDELFORT H C E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR44
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Troubled by Faith

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2025

    Over the past twenty-five years, Davies has showed in a large outpouring of impressive books that magic, otherworldly experiences, demonic possession, visions, and other unexplained phenomena previously identified as superstitious have continued from the eighteenth century in the lives of many who live in “modern” Britain, Europe, and America. These instances are not mere “survivals,” nor do they represent the “re-enchantment” of the West. They h…

  • Imagining the Witch

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2023

  • Knowledge Lost

    Martin Mulsow, H C Erik MidelfortTRANSLATORBOOKKnowledge Lost2022

  • The Bible in the Sixteenth Century

    Guy Bedouelle, Steinmetz David C et al.BOOKBible in the Sixteenth Century2020

    A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the thesis that the intellectual and religious life of the sixteenth century cannot be understood without attention to the preoccupation of sixteenth-century humanists and theologians with the interpretation of the Bible. Topics explored include Jewish exegesi…

  • The Convent of Wesel

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2018References: 3

    More than a decade ago, Spohnholz noticed that a minor episode in Reformed (Calvinist) Church history—a meeting of dozens of Calvinist ministers and leaders in 1568—was surprisingly difficult to document. The lack of evidence for the “Synod,” “Convent,” or assembly at Wesel near the Dutch border finally prompted a full-scale investigation. He begins with a meeting on November 3, 1568, that produced a set of 122 articles proposing to regulate the …

  • The Faustian Century

    Open AccessH C Erik MidelfortARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    J. M. van der Laan and Andrew Weeks, eds. The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester: Camden House, 2013. 400 pp. $90. ISBN: 978-1-57113-552-0. - Volume 67 Issue 4

  • The Devil’s Tabernacle

    Open AccessH C Erik MidelfortARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

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  • The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, Part 1, Introduction and Text. Part 2, Commentary, Bibliography, and Index

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2013

  • Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, vol. 1, Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493–1648

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2012

  • Witch Craze?

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEMagic, ritual, and witchcraft2011

    Historians have long been interested in the "witch craze" or Hexenwahn of premodern Europe. Though the author himself has written of "panic" and "frenzy" in earlier studies, he argues here that these terms have led to a distorted perspective which encourages attention to episodes of large-scale panic and overemphasizes torture and the devil. The distortion can be corrected by looking at places that avoided massive outbursts (the Palatinate, Rothe…

  • The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2008

    Reviewed by: The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context H. C. Erik Midelfort Angus Gowland. The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context. Ideas in Context, no. 78. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 338 pp. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-86768-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-521-86768-9). With some exaggeration, the author of this book claims that previous scholars have characterized Robert Burton’s Anatomy o…

  • Exorcism and Enlightenment

    H C Erik MidelfortBOOKExorcism and Enlightenment2005

  • Religion and Culture in Germany (1400-1800)

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2005

    Places of Original Publication Publications of R.W. Scribner, A Historian of the German Reformation, Thomas A. Brady, Jr. THE POPULAR 1. Is a History of Popular Culture Possible? 2. Elements of Popular Belief WAYS OF SEEING 3. Perceptions of the Sacred in Germany at the End of the Middle Ages 4. Popular Piety and Modes of Visual Perception in Late-Medieval and Reformation Germany 5. From the Sacred Image to the Sensual Gaze: Sense Perceptions and…

  • Suicide in the Middle Ages. Volume 1

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2001

  • Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts

    H C Erik Midelfort, Kathy StuartARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001Cited by: 4

  • Juger les vers

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESpeculum1999

  • Fear in Early Modern Society

    H C Erik Midelfort, H C Erik Midelfort H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998

  • Kultur und Alltag in der Fruhen Neuzeit

    H C Erik Midelfort, H C Erik Midelfort H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1996

  • The Last Descendant of Aeneas

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESpeculum1996

  • Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany

    Howard Louthan, H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

    During the 16th century close to 30 German dukes, landgraves, margraves and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad - so mentally disordered that serious steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book is the first to study these princes, and a few princesses, as a group and in context. The result is a flood of new light on the history of Renaissance medicine and of psychiatry, on Germ…

  • The Myth of Ritual Murder

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1991

  • Comment on Colin Gordon

    Open AccessH C Erik MidelfortARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences1990

  • Mind-Forged Manacles

    H C Erik Midelfort, Roy PorterARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1989

  • The Digest of Justinian

    H C Erik Midelfort, H C Erik Midelfort H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1988

    When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was a…

  • The Powers of Prophecy

    H C Erik MidelfortARTICLESpeculum1985