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Hans Peter Broedel

PhD
  • Associate Professor, History & American Indian St

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  • Email: hans.broedel@UND.edu
  • Office: 701.777.2693
  • Alt Phone: 701.740.5082
  • Dept: 701.777.3681

Office Address

O'Kelly Hall Room 245
221 Centennial Drive Stop 8096
Grand Forks ND 58202-8096

  • History 101, Western Civilization I
  • History 230, Cultural History of Modern Science
  • History 301, Medieval Civilization
  • History 349, The Origins of Modern War
  • History 424, European Witch Trials

  • Early modern European historical epistemology
  • Histories of science, fabulous beasts, witches, ghosts, and monsters
  • Folklore

Jana Byars and Hans Peter Broedel, eds., Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination.  New York and London: Routledge, 2018.

"The Mermaid of Edam Meets Medical Science," in Byars and Broedel (2018): 35-50.

"Science and Technology in the European Middle Ages," in Skjelver, Arnold, Broedel and Kim, History of Applied Science and Technology: An Open Access Textbook.  An open source digital textbook.  UND Digital Press, 2018.

"Fifteenth Century Witch Beliefs," in Brian Levack, ed., The Oxford Univeristy Press Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. 32-49.

“Gratuitous Examples and the Grateful Dead: Clerical Interpretations and Appropriation of Traditional Oral Narratives in Late Medieval Exempla,” in Laura Hollengreen, ed., Translatio: The Transmission of Culture. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009: 97-112.

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns…”: the Existence of Fabulous Beasts in Renaissance Historiae Naturales,” in Konrad Eisenbichler, ed. Renaissance Medievalisms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008: 287-302

The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief.  Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2004.

PhD, University of Washington, 1998.

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