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The Witchcraft Trial of Alice Kyteler

10/14/2023

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​In 1324, a woman named Alice Kyteler was accused of witchcraft in Kilkenny, Ireland. Her story is mysterious and fascinating and considered a landmark case in the history of European witch trials. Find out what happened – or didn’t – this week on Footnoting History!

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Further Reading

Norman Cohn, Europe’s Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom, revised edition, The University of Chicago Press (1973, 2000).
 
Áine Foley, “Violence and Authority: the Sheriff and the Seneschal in Late Medieval Ireland.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 117C (2017): 185-206.
 
Anne Neary, “The Origins and Character of the Kilkenny Witchcraft Case of 1324.” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature 83C (1983): 333-350.
 
Bernadette Williams, “The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler.” History Ireland 2, no. 4 (1994): 20-24.
 
“The Sorcery Trial of Lady Alice Kyteler (1324),” in Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A Reader, second edition, ed. John Shinners, University of Toronto Press (2008), 262-267.
 
Kyteler’s Inn.
 
Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
1 Comment
Raymond
10/14/2023 02:07:56 pm

A interesting spin on witchcraft.

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