Professor Charles Zika
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| Email: | c.zika@unimelb.edu.au |
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| Location: | Room 544 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Biography
Charles Zika graduated BA (Hons) in History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Melbourne. He then carried out research at the University of Tübingen, West Germany, and received his MA from the University of Melbourne. He has taught at Monash and Melbourne Universities.
Research
Charles' two main research interests at present are the use of the visual in the understanding of history and the witchhunt in early modern Europe.
Publications
Charles' publications have been in European history between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, and have covered such areas as humanism and magic, the German Reformation, the social construction of knowledge, sexuality and moral order, religious practices and authority, folklore and celebrations of the past, the body and cannibalism, and images of witchcraft. His two main research interests at present are the use of the visual in the understanding of history and the witchhunt in early modern Europe.
Books- ZIKA, C. The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe, London: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 296 pp. ISBN: 0-415-08242-0.
- ZIKA, C. & F.W. KENT, eds, Rituals, Images and Words: the varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. xvii + 439 pp. ISBN 250350907X
- ZIKA, C. & E. WARNE, eds, God, the Devil and a Millennium of Christian Culture, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004. 239 pp. ISBN 0 7340 3051 7
- ZIKA, C., Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, no. 91], Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2002. xiv + 614pp. ISBN: 9004125604
- ZIKA, C. & D. EICHBERGER, eds., Dürer and his Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii + 280 pp. ISBN0521620376; Paperback, 2005, ISBN 0521619882
- ZIKA, C., Johannes Reuchlin und die okkulte Tradition der Renaissance, [Pforzheimer Reuchlinschriften, vol. 5], Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1998. 206pp. ISBN 3799559760
- ZIKA, C., with E. KENT, Witches and Witch-Hunting in European Societies. A Working Bibliography and Guide to Sources in Melbourne Libraries, [Melbourne University History Research Papers no. 9], 1998. vii + 266 pp.
- ZIKA, C., ed. No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600, [Melbourne University History Monograph Series no. 14], Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1991, reprint 1995. vi + 200 pp. ISBN 0732502942
- ZIKA, C. ‘Medieval Magicians as People of the Book’, in Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. G. Kratzman, Macmillan Art Publishing, in association with the State Library of Victoria (forthcoming 2009).
- ZIKA, C. & Larry SILVER,‘Cultural and Artistic Exchange in the Making of the Modern World, 1500-1900: An Introduction’, in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, ed. J. Anderson, Melbourne,The Miegunyah Press, pp. 288-89 (2009).
- ZIKA, C., ‘The Devil's Hoodwink: Seeing and Believing in the World of Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft', in Merry E. Wiesner, ed., Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe [Problems in European Civilization], Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 25-34 (2007) [Reprint].
- ZIKA, C.. ‘Medieval and Early Modern European History’, in Faye Anderson & Stuart Macintyre, eds., The Life of the Past: the discipline of history at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, pp. 173-205 (2006)
- ZIKA, C., ‘Memory, Commemoration, History: recent Anglo-American historiography and Australian public discourse’, in Paul Münch, ed., Historische Jubiläen: Genese, Ziele, Funktionen und Inszenierungen privater und öffentlicher Erinnerung, Essen; Klartext Verlag: pp. 241-57 (2005).
- ZIKA, C., ‘The Witch of Endor: transformations of a biblical necromancer in early modern Europe’, in C. Zika, & F.W. Kent, eds, Rituals, Images and Words: the varieties of cultural expression in late medieval and early modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols: pp. 235-59 (2005)
- ZIKA, C., ‘Reformation, Scriptural Precedent and Witchcraft: Johann Teufel’s Woodcut of The Witch of Endor’, in I. Breward, ed., Reforming the Reformation: Essays in honour Peter Matheson, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 148-66 (2004)
- ZIKA, C., ‘Putting the Devil Back into History, 1000–1800’, in Ellen Warne & Charles Zika, eds., God, the Devil and a Millennium of Christian Culture, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, pp. 61–78 (2004)
- ZIKA, C., ‘The Corsini Witchcraft Scene of Salvator Rosa: Magic, Violence and Death’, in David R. Marshall ed., The Italians in Australia: Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art, pp. 179–190, Florence: Centro Di (2004)
- ZIKA, C., Cranachs Melancholia Bilder: Hexerei und Soziale Unordnung im 16. Jahrhundert’, in I. Ahrendt-Schulte, Dieter R. Bauer, Sönke Lorenz, Jürgen Michael Schmidt, eds, Geschlecht, Magie und Hexenverfolgung, Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte: pp. 227-272 (2001)
- ZIKA, C.. ‘Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Germany’, in Brian P. Levack, ed., New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology. Vol. 4. Gender and Witchcraft, New York: Routledge, pp. 383–412 (2001) [Reprint]
- ZIKA, C., ‘The Devil's Hoodwink: Seeing and Believing in the World of Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft', in Brian P. Levack, ed., New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, Vol. 1. Demonology, Religion and Witchcraft, New York: Routledge, 83–129 [Reprint]
- ZIKA, C., ‘“Magie” – “Zauberei” – “Hexerei”. Bildmedien und kulturelle Wandel’, trans. Klaus Binder, in Bernhard Jussen and Craig Koslofsky (eds), Kulturelle Reformation. Sinnformationen im Umbruch 1400-1600, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: pp. 317-82 (1999)
- ZIKA, C., Dürer's witch, riding women and moral order’, in C. Zika & D. Eichberger (eds), Dürer and his culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 118-40, 225-228 (1998, paperback reprint 2005).
- ZIKA, C. & D. EICHBERGER, ‘Dürer and his Culture: an Introduction’, in C. Zika & D. Eichberger (eds), Dürer and his culture,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-10, 211-212 (1998; paperback reprint 2005)
- ZIKA, C., & D. EICHBERGER, ‘Select Bibiography: Albrecht Dürer (1971-1997)’, in C. Zika & D. Eichberger (eds), Dürer and his culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 237-50 (1998; paperback reprint 2005)
- ZIKA, C., 'Appropriating Folklore in Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft Literature: the Nebelkappe of Paulus Frisius', in R. Po-Chia Hsia and R.W. Scribner, eds, Problems in the Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 175-218 (1997)
- ZIKA, C., 'The Wild Cavalcade in Lucas Cranach's Melancholia Paintings: Witchcraft and Sexual Disorder in 16th-Century Germany', in Mark Baker (ed.), History on the Edge. Essays in Memory of John Foster [Melbourne University history monographs, Vol. 22], Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, History Department, pp. 44-88 (1997)
- ZIKA, C., 'Kannibalismus und Hexerei: die Rolle der Bilder im frühneuzeitlichen Europa', trans. Maren Möhring, in Hedwig Röckelein (ed.), Kannibalismus und europäischer Kultur, Tübingen: Edition diskord, pp. 75-114 (1996).
- ZIKA, C., 'She-man: Visual Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Europe', in Venus and Mars: Traditions of Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern, Perth: University of Western Australia Press, pp. 147-90 (1995)
- ZIKA, C., 'The Reformation Jubilee of 1617: Appropriating the Past in European Centenary Celebrations', in D. Kennedy (ed.), Authorized Pasts: Essays in Official History [Melbourne University history monographs, Vol. 21], Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, History Department, pp. 75-112 (1995).
- ZIKA, C., 'Nuremberg: the City and its Culture in the Early Sixteenth Century', in Dürer in the National Gallery of Victoria, ed. Irena Zdanowicz, exh. cat., Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria pp. 28-44 (1994)
- ZIKA, C., 'Fashioning New Worlds from Old Fathers: Reflections on Saturn, Amerindians and Witches in a Sixteenth-Century Print', in Dangerous Liaisons: Essays in Honour of Greg Dening, ed. D. Merwick, Melbourne: History Dept., University of Melbourne, [Melbourne University History Monographs, no. 19], pp. 240-72 (1994).
- ZIKA, C., 'Les parties du corps, Saturne et le cannibalisme: représentations visuelles des assemblées des sorcières au XVIe siècle', trans. M. Degommier, in Nicole Jacques-Chaquin and Maxime Préaud (eds),Le sabbat des sorciers en Europe (XVe-XVIIIe siècles), Grenoble: Jerome Millon, pp. 389-418 (1993).
- ZIKA, C., 'Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century', in Brian Levack (ed.), Renaissance Magic, [Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology, Vol. 11], New York & London: Garland, pp. 288-322 (1992)
- ZIKA, C., 'Agrippa of Nettesheim and his appeal to the Cologne council in 1533: the politics of knowledge in early sixteenth-century Germany', in Humanism in Cologne / Humanismus in Köln, ed. J. Mehl with Introduction by E. Meuthen, Cologne and Vienna: Böhlau, pp. 119-173 (1991)
- ZIKA, C., 'The Devil's Hoodwink: Seeing and Believing in the World of Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft', in No Gods Except Me; Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600, ed. C. Zika, Melbourne: History Dept., University of Melbourne, [Melbourne University History Monographs, no. 14] pp. 152-198 (1991)
- ZIKA, C., 'Introduction', in No Gods Except Me; Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600, ed. C. Zika, Melbourne: History Dept., University of Melbourne, [Melbourne University History Monographs, no. 14], pp. 1-5 (1991)
- ZIKA, C., ‘Images in Service of the Word: The Witch of Endor in the Bibles of Early Modern Europe’,Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums,149-63 (2009).
- ZIKA, C., & S. WELCH, ‘German History in Australia’, zeitenblicke: Online-Journal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 2: 20 pp. (2002) [URL: http://www.zeitenblicke.historicum.net]
- ZIKA, C., “Images of Circe and Discourses of Witchcraft, 1480-1580,” in zeitenblicke: Online-Journal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 1:1: 35 pp (2002) [URL: http://www.zeitenblicke.historicum.net]
- ZIKA, C., ‘Cannibalism and witchcraft in early modern Europe: reading the visual images’, History Workshop Journal, 44: 77-105 (1997)
- ZIKA, C., 'Writing the Visual into History: changing cultural perceptions of late medieval and early modern Germany', Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies [special issue, ed. C. Churches] 12: pp. 107-34 (1993)
- ZIKA, C., 'Morals, Family and Education in Reformation Germany', Readings in Senior History: European 11: pp. 15-23 (1991)
- ZIKA, C., 'Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Germany', Australian Journal of Art 8: pp. 19-47 (1989/90)
- ZIKA, C., 'Hosts, Processions and Pilgrimages: Controlling the Sacred in Fifteenth-Century Germany', Past and Present 118 : pp. 25-64 (1988)
- ZIKA, C., 'Reuchlin and Erasmus: Humanism and Occult Philosophy', Journal of Religious History 9 (1977): pp. 223-246 (1977)
- ZIKA, C., 'Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 39: pp. 104-138 (1976)
- ZIKA, C., 'Ijob' Biblio Revuo 4: pp. 21-34 (1968)
- ZIKA, C. ‘Gutenberg’s 42-line Latin Bible’, in The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia, and New Zealand, eds. Bronwyn Stocks & Nigel Morgan, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008
- ZIKA, C., Seventeen refereed encyclopedia articles (= 17,250 words), in Richard M. Golden, ed., Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western tradition, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 4 vols (2006)
‘Art and Visual Images’, in vol. 1, pp. 59-64
‘Baldung [Grien], Hans (1484-1545)’, in vol. 1, pp. 80-82
‘Berkeley, Witch of’, in vol. 1, pp. 110-11
‘Breu, Jörg the Elder’, in vol. 1, pp. 145-6
‘Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553)’, in vol. 1, pp. 231-2
‘Cauldron’, in vol. 1, pp. 176-7
‘Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528)’, in vol. 1, pp. 299-300
‘Endor, Witch of’, in vol. 2, pp. 308-10
‘Frisius, Paulus (ca. 1555-?)’, in vol. 2, pp. 396-7
‘Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann (1455-1510)’, in vol. 2, pp. 405-7
‘Goat’, in vol. 2, pp. 446-8
‘Hair’, in vol. 2, pp. 467-8
‘Hermogenes’, in vol. 2, pp. 490-91
‘Saturn’, in vol. 4, pp. 1005-6
‘Sticks’, in vol. 4, pp. 1086-7
‘Vintler, Hans (d. 1419)’, in vol. 4, pp. 1170-71
‘Ziarnko, Jan (ca. 1575- ca. 1628)’, in vol. 4, pp. 1235-6