Professor Charles Zika
Professorial Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | +61 3 8344 5954 |
| Email: | c.zika@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | +61 3 8344 4280 |
| Location: | Room 205, |
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.
He became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003 and was promoted to Professor in 2004. Charles was Head of the Department of History from 2002 to early 2006. He took early retirement at the end of 2007; and since then has been a Professorial Fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, primarily engaged in research and supervision of graduate students. Since 2011 he has been one of the ten Chief Investigators in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800, which is funded 2011-2017; and from October 2010 to July 2011 he was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen, Germany.
Research
Research interests
Charles' research focuses on the cultural, religious and visual history of northern and central Europe in the late medieval and early modern periods, with particular interest in the German-speaking lands. His past publications have covered topics such 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, cannibalism and images of witchcraft.
Current research
Current projects include a reception history of images of the biblical witch of Endor from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries; responses to natural disasters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in particular in the late sixteenth-century collection of the Zurich pastor Johann Jakob Wick; the changing visual imagery of witchcraft from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
As a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, his projects focus on the changing relationship of emotions and religion in the late middle ages and early modern period. This includes a project on the emotions of inclusion created in response to sacred space and especially in rituals of pilgrimage, and another on emotions of exclusion and demonisation invoked to counter perceived threats to communities and their integrity (for further information please see The History of Emotions Charles Zika: Emotions and Sacred Space, 1300-1750 web page).
He is also responsible for liaising with the National Gallery of Victoria, a partner organization of the Centre, with respect to its planned exhibition on Emotions and Art in 2017.
Recent major grants
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800 (based at UWA): $24.5 million (one of 10 Chief Investigators)
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2009-2012 (with Jenny Spinks and Susan Broomhall): Reading the Signs: Disaster, Apocalypse and Demonology in European Print Culture ()
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2006-2009: The Living Dead: Witchcraft and Apparition in European Culture (3rd to 18th century)
- Australian Research Council Network Funding: Network for Early European Research (UWA): 2004-2009: $1.6 million (one of 50 signatories)
Recent editorial and professional research activity
- Co-Editor of Brepols monograph series, 'Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies' (with Arizona Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies)
- Member, editiorial board, Parergon: Bulletin journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
- National Management Committee member (2007-9) and original signatory (2004), of ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER)
- Vice President, Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS), 2000–2004
Recent prizes
- The Roland H. Bainton Book Prize 2008 – for the Best Book on History or Theology of Early Modern Europe, by Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, USA: The Appearance of Witchcraft, Honorable Mention (Runner Up)
- The Katharine Briggs Award 2008 – for the Best Book on Popular Culture of Medieval or Early Modern Europe, by The Folklore Society, London: The Appearance of Witchcraft, Runner Up
Publications
Books
- ZIKA, C., C. LEAHY and J. SPINKS, eds, The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death & Disaster, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Viii + 88 pp. ISBN: 9780742103577
- 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; paperback ISBN, 2009: 0-415-563552-0
- 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
Chapters in books
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ZIKA, C. 'The witch in early modern art', in Brian Levack, ed., Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013
ZIKA, C., “Images and Witchcraft Studies: A Short History”, in Marko Nenonen and Raisa Maria Toivo, eds, Writing Witch-hunt Histories: Challenging the Paradigm, Helsinki: SKS (Finnish Literature Society), forthcoming 2013
ZIKA, C. & Jenny SPINKS, 'The Four Horsemen: an Introduction', in The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death & Disaster, eds, Cathy Leahy, Jenny Spinks & Charles Zika, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, pp. 1-14 (2012)
ZIKA, C. 'Witchcraft and the Scapegoating of Disaster', The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death & Disaster, eds, Cathy Leahy, Jenny Spinks & Charles Zika, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, pp. 62-75 (2012)
ZIKA, C. 'The Baillieu Library's Etching of André Laurent, Saul and the Witch of Endor, after Salvator Rosa', in Stephanie Jaehrling & Kerrianne Stone, eds, Print Matters at the Baillieu, Melbourne: Cussonia Press, pp. 89-102 (2011)
ZIKA, C. 'Teaching and Learning 'History on the spot' in Europe – a Reflection', in Broomhall, Susan, Tim Pitman, and Joanne McEwan, eds, A Classroom Like No Other: Learning and Teaching in Australian Educational Tourism, (Australian Learning and Teaching Council- Publication), Perth: Uniprint, pp. 49-52 (2011)
ZIKA, C. 'Medieval Magicians as People of the Book', in Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. G. Kratzman, Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, in association with the State Library of Victoria, pp. 246-54 (2009)
- ZIKA, C. and 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)
Journal articles
- 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)
Other publications – dictionary entries
- 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
Recently completed supervisions
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Claudia Guli: 'The Legitimacy of the Trial of Charles I: Historical Precedent, the Law and the Roots of Political Power in England' (awarded PhD, 2012; with Jenny Spinks and Dolly MacKinnon)
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Charlotte Smith: 'Apocalyptic Battles and Exotic Courts: Printed Images of the Turk from Sixteenth-Century German Territories' (awarded PhD, 2011)
- Matthew Champion: 'Nicolas Jaquier and the Flagellum Haereticorum Fascinariorum: Burgundian Witchcraft Theory and Culture.' (MA – awarded H1, 2010)
- Liam Connell: 'Ten Thousand Lying Stories: Witchcraft and Folk Magic in Seventeenth-Century New England' (awarded PhD 2009)
- Leigh Penman: 'Unanticipated Millenniums: The Chiliastic Underground and the Lutheran Experience of Millenarian Thought, 1600-1630' (awarded PhD, 2009)
- Heather Dalton: 'Roger Barlow, Tudor Trade and the Atlantic World' (awarded PhD 2008))
- Amanda Whiting, 'Deference and Difference: Women and Petititoning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution' (awarded PhD, 2007; with Dolly McKinnon and Don Kennedy)
- Jenny Spinks: 'Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in German-speaking Europe, c.1490-1570' (awarded PhD, 2006)
- Gavin Brown: 'Sacred Performances: a study of Eucharistic ritual in Australian Catholic culture, 1900-1962' (awarded PhD, 2004)
- Janet Deshon: 'Mozart's Magic Flute and the Masonic Rituals of the Crata Repoa, the Illuminati and Cagliostro' (awarded H1 for MA, 2004; with Chips Sowerwine)
- Marita O'Callaghan: 'Providence, poery and punishment: Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)' (awarded H2A for MA, 2004)
- Alice Daly: 'Women, Property and Patriarchy in the London Theatre, 1586-1630' (awarded H1 for MA, 2003)
- Georgia Cosmos: 'Huguenot Storytellers in London in the Eighteenth century: the Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes' (awarded PhD, 2003; with Peter McPhee)
- Catherine Mann: 'Peopling the Household: the Lisles and their servants' (with Stephanie Trigg, English – awarded PhD, 2002)
- Christian Bickham: 'Cornelius Agrippa's Theory of Magic in the De Occulta Philosophia' (awarded MA, 2002)
- Elizabeth Kent: 'Dreadful wizards. Male witchcraft in early modern culture: East Anglia and New England, 1560-1700' (awarded PhD, 2002)
Current supervisions
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Michael Pickering: 'The Birth of the Vampire in Eighteenth-Century Europe' (PhD)
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Julie Davies: 'Science in an Enchanted World: Joseph Glanvill and the Impact of Seventeenth-Century Scientific Development on Understandings of Witchcraft and the Occult' (PhD)
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Charlotte Millar: 'Witchcraft, the Devil and Popular Print in Seventeenth-Century England' (PhD)