Diane Purkiss
Diane Purkiss is Professor of English Literature, Fellow and Tutor at Keble College, Oxford. She was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. She is the author of the highly acclaimed The Witch in History, Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories, and The English Civil War: A People’s History. She specialises in Renaissance and women’s literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War.
Books by Diane Purkiss
Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods
Diane Purkiss and Naomi J Miller (eds)
Interviews with Diane Purkiss
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Red Shift
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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
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Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs
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The Annotated Collected Poems
Edward Thomas (ed. by Edna Longley) -
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The Poems of Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (ed. by Derek Roper)
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
The best books on Witches and Witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss
For centuries, the witch has been an index not only of what we fear most in others, but also what we cannot cope with—the powerfully abnormal, strange and often irrational elements—in ourselves. And the best way to understand the history of witches and witchcraft is to first understand the supernatural, according to Diane Purkiss, Professor at Keble College, Oxford and author of the lauded book The Witch in History.
