James Anthony Sharpe, FRHS (9 October 1946 – 13 February 2024) was an English social historian who was a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of York. He was a specialist in witchcraft, and crime and punishment, in early modern England.[1]
Sharpe earned his BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and joined the University of York as a lecturer in 1973.[2] He became professor in 1997 and retired in 2016.[3]
Sharpe died on 13 February 2024, at the age of 77.[4]
Selected publications
edit- Crime in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press/Past and Present Publications, 1983.
- "William Holcroft his Booke": Office Holding in Late Stuart Essex. Essex Record Office, Essex Historical Documents, 2, 1986.
- Crime and the Law in English Satirical Prints 1600 - 1832. Chadwyck - Healey, 1986.
- Judicial Punishment in England. Faber and Faber, 1990.
- Early Modern England: a Social History 1550 - 1760. Edward Arnold, 1987: 2nd edn., 1997.
- Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England 1550 - 1750. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.[5]
- Crime in Early Modern England 1550 - 1750. Longman, 1984: 2nd edn., 1998.
- The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A horrible and true story of deception, witchcraft, murder and the King of England. Profile Books, 2000.
- Witchcraft in Early Modern England. Longmans, 2001: 2nd edn., 2019. Seminar Studies in History series.
- Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman. Profile Books, 2004.
- A Fiery & Furious People. Random House, 2016.[6] ISBN 9781847945136
References
edit- ^ Sad News of the Death of Jim Sharpe. Department of History, University of York. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ The Decline of Public Punishment in England 1750-1868 James Sharpe. York Festival of Ideas, 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ James Sharpe. Penguin Books. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ Roper, Lyndal (15 March 2024). "James Sharpe obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ Instruments of Darkness Witchcraft in Early Modern England James Sharpe. University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England James Sharpe. Penguin Books. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
Further reading
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