Faculty

Michael Bailey

Associate 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); translated as Magia e superstizione in Europa dall’ Antichità ai giorni nostri (Lindau, 2008)  
Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft (Scarecrow Press, 2003).
 
Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
 
"A Late-Medieval Crisis of Superstition?" Speculum 84 (2009): 633-61

"The Disenchantment of Magic: Spells, Charms, and Superstition in Early European Witchcraft Literature," The American Historical Review 111 (2006): 383-404
 
"Religious Poverty, Mendicancy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages," Church History 72 (2003): 457-83
 
"From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages," Speculum 76 (2001): 960-90

 
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