School of Historical Studies History

Professor Charles Zika

Honorary Staff
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.

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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.

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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.

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