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Prof

Charles Zika

Honorary
Historical and Philosophical Studies
Witchcraft
visual culture
print
religion
emotions
history
european history
early modern europe
history of emotions
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Charles Zika

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Late medieval and early modern Europe
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Projects

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Albrecht Durer's Material World - in Melbourne, Manchester and Nuremberg

2021 - 2024
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

Emotions change over time; yet the long-term causes and consequences of changing emotional experiences and expressions remain largely unknow..

2011 - 2021
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

2011 - 2021
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

2011 - 2018
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS

2011 - 2018
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS

2014 - 2018
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS

2011 - 2018
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

2011 - 2017
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS

2011 - 2017
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ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF EMOTIONS - MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

2011 - 2017
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Projects

Project Types

8

Research Grant

5

Research Contracts

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Heavenly Portents and Divine Anger: the Emotional Intensity of Fire from the Sky in the later Sixteenth Century

Charles Zika

Journal article  |  2022  |  Occasion

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Louis Charland (1958-2021)

Charles Zika, RS White

Journal article  |  2021  |  Emotions: History, Culture, Society

News of the sudden death of Louis Charland from a heart attack on 9 May 2021 was a real shock for many members of the Australian C..

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Reformations Past and Future: Global, Multidisciplinary, and Experiential

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2021

Within Reformation studies, this collection signals both a perspective attained by the time of the five-hundredth anniversary of t..

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Visualising Violence in Reformation Europe

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2020

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Emotions, Exclusion and Witchcraft Imagery

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2020

The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe, 1100-1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, ..

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Compassion in Punishment: The Visual Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Depictions of Calvary

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2020

This volume honors the work of a scholar who has been active in the field of early modern history for over four decades. In that t..

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Picturing Witchcraft in Late Seventeenth-Century Germany

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Book  |  2019

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their na..

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The European Witch Hunt: From Mountain Credulity to Multiple Cultural Beliefs

Charles Zika

Journal article  |  2019  |  Sixteenth Century Journal: journal of early modern studies

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Towards an Alien Community of Dancing Witches in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe

Charles Zika

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Expanding Knowledge
Creative and Professional Writing

News

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A distant mirror of disruption

Charles Zika, Margaret Manion

Around 1520 Philippe de Gueldre, Duchess of Lorraine, acquired a new handwritten illuminated book on the dialogue between reason and the so..

July 11, 2016
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Bewitched and beguiled by art

Charles Zika

Many an innocent child, since the release of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, has tromped and sung along to the munchkins’ jubilant “Ding Do..

August 19, 2015
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2013

Best Small Exhibition Catalogue, 2013 (Co-editor)

Art Association of Australian & New Zealand
2010

Fellowship in Residence, October 2010–July 2011

Lichtenberg Kolleg, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Goettingen
2009

Visiting Fellow

Research Centre for Early Modern European Culture, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
2008

Joint Runner-up, Katherine Briggs Award 2008

British Folklore Society
2008

Honourable Mention, Roland Bainton Prize in History

Sixteenth Century Studies Society & Conference
2005

Co-editor, Late Medieval and Early Modern series

Brepols Publishers, Belgium
1998

Visiting Fellow

Research Centre for Early Modern European Culture, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
1996

Visiting Fellow

Research Centre for Early Modern European Culture, Herzog August Bibliothek, Woldfenbuettel, Germany
1993

Visiting Fellow

Humanities Research Centre, ANU
1992

Visiting Fellow

Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gellery of Art, Washington DC
2003

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary Supervisor

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Life Member

Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & EArly Modern Europe

Member

Renaissance Society of America

Member

Sixteenth Century Society & Conference

Education

Master of Arts

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

University of Melbourne

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International Linkages

Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg

Germany

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Germany

Arizona Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
University of Goettingen

Germany