Faculty

Michael Bailey

Assistant Professor

621 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-1284
Email: mdbailey@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University
 
Research and Teaching Interests
Medieval religious and cultural history
History of magic, witchcraft, and superstition
History of heresy and religious dissent
 
Selected Publications

Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

"The Meanings of Magic," Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 1 (2006): 1-23.

"The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature," American Historical Review 111 (2006): 383-404.
 
Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (Scarecrow Press, 2003).
 
Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
 
"A Sabbat of Demonologists: Basel, 1431-1440," The Historian 65 (2003): 1375-95 (co-authored with Edward Peters).
 
"Religious Poverty, Mendicancy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages," Church History 72 (2003): 457-83.
 
"The Feminization of Magic and the Emerging Idea of the Female Witch in the Late Middle Ages," Essays in Medieval Studies 19 (2002): 120-34.
 
"From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages," Speculum 76 (2001): 960-90.
 
"Abstinence and Reform at the Council of Basel: Johannes Nider's De abstinencia esus carnium," Mediaeval Studies 59 (1997): 225-60.

"The Medieval Concept of the Witches' Sabbath," Exemplaria 9 (1996): 419-39.
 
Courses Taught
Introduction to Western Civilization I
History of Medieval Western Europe I
History of Medieval Western Europe II
 
Professional Activity
Founding co-editor of the journal Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Medieval Academy of America
Renaissance Society of America
Societas Magica