Professor Charles Zika
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5954 |
| Email: | c.zika@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| 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.