Publications

stars, demons and the body in fifteenth-century england.	in 1441, eleanor cobham, duchess of gloucester, was arrested, together with three associates: margery jourdemayne, the 'witch of eye', roger bolingbroke, oxford cleric and astrologer, and thomas southwell, mb, canon of st. stephen's, westminster. they were accused of plotting to kill king henry vi by necromancy, but contemporary chronicles differed on the precise nature of their crime: had they summoned demons or cast an astrological chart? this paper explores the relationship between astrology ...	2010	20513622
[witch trials in the salem as a medical error. witch hunts in the xvii century and the medical art].	that article concerns with the influences of medical practitioners in witch hunts in the salem (1692). witch trials in england and english colonies in the xvii century were mainly criminal trials. witchcraft had been there considered principally as a crime-tool rather then the crime itself. witches were usually accused of crimes such as the murder and the disease sending. physicians normally played in that situations the role of court experts. they decided if analyzed disease had normal or abnor ...	2005	17144196
bewitched or intoxicated? the etiology of witch persecution in early modern england.		1983	11611222