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PROF CHARLES ZIKA



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: Honorary (Professor Emeritus)
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Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/zika.html
Work: 8344 5944
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 544
Level: 05
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Late medieval and early modern Europe, religion and culture Witchcraft, ritual, visual culture, print, religious practices Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of Pennsylvania Research
Germany Germanisches Nationalmuseum Research
United States Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research
Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Research, Teaching

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts University of Melbourne 11-Dec-1974

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 01-Jul-2003

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Co-editor, Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies book series, Brepols Publishers, Belgium 01-Apr-2005
Prize Honourable Mention, Roland Bainton Prize in History, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 24-Oct-2008
Prize Joint Runner-up, Katherine Briggs Award 2008 11-Nov-2008
Scholarship Research Centre for Early Modern European Culture, Herzog August Bibliothek, Woldfenbuettel, Germany 31-Dec-1996
Scholarship Research Centre for Early Modern European Culture, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany 31-Dec-1998
Scholarship Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gellery of Art, Washington DC 31-Dec-1992
Scholarship Humanities Research Centre, ANU 31-Dec-1993

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The Living Dead: witchcraft and apparition in European culture (3rd to 18th century) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Reading the signs: disaster, apocalypse and demonology in European print culture, 1450-1700 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Bible Leaf
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Medieval Imagination Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
    Publisher: Macmillan Art Publishing, Macmillan Publishers Australia(South Yarra)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • The Appearance of Witchcraft: print and visual culture in sixteenth-century Europe
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Medieval and Early Modern European History
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Life of the Past: The discipline of history at the University of Melbourne, 1855-2005
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Art and Visual Images
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Baldung [Grien], Hans (1484-1545)
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Berkeley, Witch of
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Breu, Jorg the Elder
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Cauldron
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Cranach, Lucas
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Durer, Albrecht
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Endor, Witch of
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Frisius, Paulus (ca. 1555-?)
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann (1455-1510)
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Goat
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Hair
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Hermogenes
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Saturn
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Sticks
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Vintler, Hans
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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  • Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition:Ziarnko, Jan (ca. 1575- ca. 1628)
    Year: 2006
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition
    Publisher: ABC Clio(Santa Barbara, California)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Rituals, Images and Words: the varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction
    Year: 2005
    Book: Rituals, Images and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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  • Memory and Commemoration in Recent English-Language Historiography and Discourse
    Year: 2005
    Book: Jubilaum, Jubilaum... Zur Geschicte Offentlicher und Privater Erinnerung
    Publisher: Klartext Verlag(Essen)
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  • The Witch of Endor: Transformations of a Biblical Necromancer in Early Modern Europe
    Year: 2005
    Book: Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • God, the Devil and a Millennium of Christian Culture
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Putting the Devil back into the History of Christianity, 1000-1800
    Year: 2004
    Book: God, The Devil and a Millennium of Christian Culture
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Reformation, Scriptural Precedent and Witchcraft: Johann Teufel's Woodcut of the Witch of Endor
    Year: 2004
    Book: Reforming the Reformation: Essays in Honour of Peter Matheson
    Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • The Corsini Witchcraft Scene of Salvator Rosa: Magic, Violence and Death
    Year: 2004
    Book: The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art
    Publisher: Centro Di(Florence)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers(Leiden)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction: Demons and Histories
    Year: 2003
    Book: Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
    Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers(Leiden)
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Journal Articles

  • German History in Australian Universities: an Overview
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Zeitenblicke - Online journal fur die Geschichtswissenchaften
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 1-12
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Cranach's melancholia paintings: Witchcraft and sexual disorder in the sixteenth century
    Year: 2002
    Book: Geshlecht, Magie und Hexenverfolgung
    Publisher: Verlag fur Regionalgeschichte(Bielefeld)
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Journal Articles

  • Images of circe and discourses of witchcraft 1480-1580
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Zeitenblicke - Online journal fur die Geschichtswissenchaften
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-20
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • 'Cranachs Melancholia Bilder: Hexerai und Soziale Unordnung im 16. Jahrhundert'
    Year: 2001
    Book: Geschlecht, Magie und Hexenverfolgung
    Publisher: Verlag fur Regionalgeschichte(Bielefeld)
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