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Dr Lizanne Henderson : Curriculum Vitae

Books

Henderson, Lizanne. Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 382pp (Winner of the 2016 Katharine Briggs Award)

 

Cowan, E. J. and Lizanne Henderson, Eds. A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000 to 1600. Vol. 1 of a 4-volume series, Everyday Life in Scotland General Eds. C. A. Whatley and E. A. Foyster. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

 

Henderson, Lizanne, Ed. Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009. 229pp

 

Henderson, Lizanne and E. J. Cowan. Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001; Edinburgh: John Donald, 2007; 2011. 242pp. (Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Folklore Prize winner)

Articles

“Bear Tales: Ways of Seeing Polar Bears in Mythology, Traditional Folktales and Modern-Day Children’s Literature”, eds. Lydia Brugue and Auba Llompart, Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre (Leiden: Brill, 2020) 250-61.

“Folklore”, Dumfries and Galloway: People and Place c. 1700-1914, eds. Edward J. Cowan and Kenneth Veitch. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2019. 347-92.

“Fairies, Angels and the Land of the Dead: Robert Kirk’s Lychnobious People”. Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication. Ed. Éva Pócs. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019.

“About a Bear: Wildlife Tourism in the Polar North”, The Geographer: Newsletter of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Winter 2018).

“Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities”. The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond. Ed. David Worthington. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 233-49.

“The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: Fairies, Beasts, Landscapes and Lychnobious Liminalities”. The Bottle Imp. 20 (2016)

[Poem] “Grandmother”. Three Drops from a Cauldron: Samhain 2016. Eds. Kate Garrett, Amy Kinsman and Grant Tarbard. Sheffield: Three Drops Press, 2016. 25.

“Tündérek, angyalok és a holtak földje: Robert Kirk Lychnobious People címú múve”. Test, Lélek, Szellemek és Természetfeletti Kommunikáció, Szerkesztette Éva Pócs. Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 2015. 368-85. (In Hungarian. An English version published in 2019)

“A country of enchantments’: Thomas Watling’s Observations of Australia’s Natural World”. Scots Under the Southern Cross. Eds. Fred Cahir, Anne Beggs Sunter and Alison Inglis. Ballarat, Australia: Ballarat Heritage Services, 2015. 108-18. (This book was awarded a Commendation by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015)

“‘Incidents of great importance’: Animal Observation on Nineteenth-Century North Polar Explorations”. New Orkney Antiquarian Journal. Special Edition: John Rae 200 Conference Proceedings. Eds. Sarah Jane Gibbon and James Irvine, vol. 7 (Orkney Heritage Society, 2014) 20-33.

(with E. J. Cowan) “Scots in Australia: The Gaze from Auld Scotia”. For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation. Ballarat, Australia: Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2014. 18-27.

“Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures”. Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature: Scottish Traditional Literature. Eds. S. Dunnigan and S. Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

“The Witches of Bute”. Historic Bute: Land and People. Ed. Anna Ritchie. Edinburgh: Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2012. 151-61.

“‘Detestable Slaves of the Devil’: Changing Attitudes Towards Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland”, A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000 to 1600, eds. E. J. Cowan and L. Henderson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 226-53.

(with E. J. Cowan) “Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland”. A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000 to 1600. Eds. E. J. Cowan and L. Henderson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 1-24.

“Studying the Supernatural History of Scotland”. Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. Ed. L. Henderson. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009. xiii-xxiv.

“Witch, Fairy and Folktale Narratives in the Trial of Bessie Dunlop”. Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. Ed. L. Henderson. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009. 141-66.

“Scotland and the Slave Trade: Some South West Connections”. Scottish Local History Issue 72, Spring (2008) 47-53.

“Witch-Hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd”. Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. Eds. J. Goodare, L. Martin and J. Miller. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 95-118.

“Charmers Spells and Holy Wells: The Repackaging of Belief”. Review of Scottish Culture (April 2007) 10-26.

“The Survival of Witch Prosecutions and Witch Belief in South-West Scotland”. Scottish Historical Review vol. LXXXV, 1: No. 219: April 2006. 52-74.

“The Natural and Supernatural Worlds of Hugh Miller”. Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller. Scotland in the Early 19th Century. Ed. L. Borley. Cromarty Arts Trust, 2003. 89-98.

(with Edward J. Cowan) “The Last of the Witches? The Survival of Scottish Witch Belief”. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context. Ed. J. Goodare. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. 198-217.

“The Road to Elfland: Fairy Belief in the Child Ballads”. The Ballad in Scottish History. Ed. E. J. Cowan. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000. 54-72.

“The Duncan Family Papers: The Peregrinations of a Remarkable Woman”. Collection Update University of Guelph, June 1993.