Publications of Thomas Robisheaux    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Thomas Robisheaux, The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Villages (2009), ISBN 978-0-393-06551-0 [detail.aspx]  [abs] [author's comments]
2. Arthur Imhof, Thomas Robisheaux (translator), Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is so Hard Today (1996), Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press
3. Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany (1989), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (297 pp. 1st paperback edition 2002.)

Books in Progress

1. T. Robisheaux, Microhistory and its Ambitions (2009)  [abs]
2. T. Robisheaux, Living with Witches: Six Interdisciplinary Essays (2009)  [abs]

Papers Published

1. 'The Queen of Evidence:' The Witchcraft Confession in the Age of Confessionalism, in Confessionalization in Europe 1500-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, edited by John Headley and Hans Hillerbrand (2004), Ashgate
2. The German Peasants' War, in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (2004), New York: Scribner's
3. Zur Rezeption Benedict Carpzov im 17ten. Jahrhundert, in Hexenprozesse und Gerichtspraxis, Trierer Hexenprozesse, vol. 5, edited by Franz Irsigler and Gunther Franz (2001), pp. 527-44, Trier (17 pages.)
4. Forensic Medicine and Witchcraft in Seventeeth Century Germany, in Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture, edited by Stuart Clark (2000), pp. 197-215, London: Routledge (18 pages.)
5. The Peasantries of Western Germany, 1300-1750, in The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Tom Scott (1997), pp. 111-42, London: Longman (31 pages.)
6. The Nobility in South Germany, 1790-1848, in Adel und Staatsverwaltung in Brandenburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Ein historischer Vergleich, edited by Kurt Adamy (1996), pp. 267-80, Akademie Verlag (13 pages.)
7. The World of the Village, in Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Thomas A. Brady, Heiko A. Oberman, and James D. Tracy (1994), pp. 79-112, Leiden: E. J. Brill (33 pages.)
8. Peasant Society and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, Peasant Studies, vol. 1 (1987), pp. 105-18 (13 pages.)  [abs]
9. Peasant Unrest and the Moral Economy in the German Southwest, 1560 1620, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 77 (1987), pp. 174-86 (12 pages.)
10. Peasant Revolts in Germany and Central Europe after the Peasants' War: Comments on the Literature, Central European History, vol. 17 (1984), pp. 384-403 (19 pages.)
11. Peasants and Pastors: Rural Youth Control and the Reformation in Hohenlohe, 1540 1680, Social History, vol. 6 (1981), pp. 281-300 (19 pages.)
12. History and Economic Anthropology: The Historians' Search for Economic Man in Afric, Essays in History, vol. 21 (1977), pp. 53-82 (29 pages.)

Book Chapters

1. T. Robisheaux, "Penance, Confession, and the Self in Early Modern Lutheranism, in Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort (2009), pp. 117-30, Ashgate Printing, ISBN 9780754665687
2. T. Robisheaux, The German Peasants’ War, in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (2004), ISBN 068431200X
3. Thomas Robisheaux, ’The Queen of Evidence’: The Witchcraft Confession in the Age of Confessionalism, in Confessionalization in Europe, 1550-1700, edited by John M. Headley and Hans Hillerbrand (2004), ISBN 0754637441

Papers In Progress

1. The Last Witch of Hurden (2003) (booklength study in progress of village life, witchcraft, law and medicine on the eve of the Enlightenment.)