Join Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer for an in-depth lecture of witchcraft in the seventeenth century on Thursday, October 2 at 6:30 pm.

Between 1450 and 1750, at least 100,000 individuals, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft in Europe and North America. Of these, roughly half met their demise at the stake or in the noose. The lecture will address how and why magic and witchcraft made sense to early modern people and what it meant when someone was accused of making a pact with the Devil. By setting the Salem trials of 1692 in context, the lecture will consider the nature of witch-hunts more broadly and the social, religious, judicial, and political causes. 

Free and open to all. Registration recommended.

About Dr. Carrington-Farmer

Charlotte Carrington-Farmer received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and specializes in early American history. Her book, Roger Williams and His World (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, Jan. 2025), sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. Her research centers on dissent in seventeenth-century New England, and she has published book chapters on Thomas Morton and Roger Williams, and an article on Mary Williams. She has published a journal article and two book chapters on equines in colonial New England and the early modern Atlantic world. Her current book project is titled: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Horse Trade to the West Indies in the 18th Century. She is active in the field of public history, and has received funding and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale University, the Mellon Foundation, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History at Roger Williams University.