Julian Goodare

Author

Julian Goodare is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, and director of the online Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. His books include The European Witch-Hunt (2016). His co-edited books include Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (2020), with Rita Voltmer and Liv Helene Willumsen, and The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (2020), with Martha McGill, which was runner-up for the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Award in 2021.

Julian Goodare is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, and director of the online Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. His books include The European Witch-Hunt (2016). His co-edited books include Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (2020), with Rita Voltmer and Liv Helene Willumsen, and The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (2020), with Martha McGill, which was runner-up for the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Award in 2021.

Books

  • Weird Sisters
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £25.00

    Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds – heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then...

  • The Reign of James VI
    E-Book | Pub: 11 Jan 2000
    £25.00

    The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted attempt by a group of ten scholars of the reign, drawn...