Dr Jan Machielsen

(he/him)

2026

• Machielsen, J. 2026. Demonology as textual scholarship: Martin Delrio's Disquisitiones magicae. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. Routledge. , pp.173-187. (10.4324/9781003476153-15)
• Machielsen, J. 2026. Epilogue: endings. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. Routledge. , pp.341-346. (10.4324/9781003476153-29)
• Machielsen, J. 2026. Introduction: The science of demons. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. Routledge. , pp.1-17. (10.4324/9781003476153-1)
• Machielsen, J. and de Rolley, T. M. 2026. The mythmaker of the sabbat: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et démons. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. Routledge. , pp.272-286. (10.4324/9781003476153-24)
• Dall'Olio, G. and Machielsen, J. 2026. Scourging demons with exorcism: Girolamo Menghi's Flagellum daemonum. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. London: Routledge. , pp.216-228. (10.4324/9781003476153-19)
• Machielsen, J. Machielsen, J. ed. 2026. The science of demons: Early Modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003476153)
• Ostorero, M. and Machielsen, J. 2026. Promoter of the sabbat and diabolical realism: Nicolas Jacquier's Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum. In: Machielsen, J. ed. The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil. London: Routledge. , pp.36-49. (10.4324/9781003476153-4)
• Machielsen, J. , Michelson, E. and Olds, K. B. eds. 2026. The Cambridge companion to Counter-Reformation sanctity. Cambridge Companions to Religion Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (10.1017/9781009199599)
• Machielsen, J. 2026. Canonization. In: Machielsen, J. , Michelson, E. and Olds, K. B. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity. Cambridge University Press. , pp.133-154. (10.1017/9781009199599.010)
• Machielsen, J. , Michelson, E. and Olds, K. B. 2026. Introduction. In: Machielsen, J. , Michelson, E. and Olds, K. B. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity. Cambridge Companions to Religion Cambridge University Press. , pp.1-14. (10.1017/9781009199599.001)
• Machielsen, J. 2026. A.Katie Harris: The stolen bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, theft, and sainthood in the seventeenth century [Book Review]. Journal of Religious History 50 (1), pp.127-128. (10.1111/1467-9809.70054)

2025

• Machielsen, J. 2025. Witches. In: Toulalan, S. ed. Early Modern Bodies. London: Routledge. , pp.550-571. (10.4324/9781351168922-27)
• Machielsen, J. 2025. The origins of the Sabbat: A brief Basque case study. Groniek Historisch Tijdschrift 240 , pp.9-20.
• Machielsen, J. 2025. Devil finders. In: Raiswell, R. , Brock, M. D. and Winter, D. R. eds. The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition. London: Routledge. , pp.211-227. (10.4324/9781003096603-12)
• Machielsen, J. 2025. Pierre de Lancre, the Basque witch-hunt, and the 'real' building blocks of illusion. In: Goumegou, S. and Robert, J. eds. Dämonie der Illusion: Semantik, Episteme, Performanze - L'illusion et le démoniaque: Sémantique, épistémè, performance. Berlin: De Gruyter. , pp.109-130. (10.1515/9783111384023-007)
• Machielsen, J. 2025. The myth of Pope Joan. In: Rollo-Koster, J. et al., The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Vol. 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.221-245. (10.1017/9781108662994.010)
• Machielsen, J. 2025. Religion, spirituality and renown. In: Visser, A. ed. A Cultural History of Fame. Vol. 3, The Cultural Histories Series London: Bloomsbury Academic. , pp.97-118.

2024

• Machielsen, J. 2024. The Basque witch-hunt: A secret history. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2023

• Machielsen, J. 2023. Known unknowns: The mutilated and missing pages of Leiden MS. Lips 3 (2). Humanistica Lovaniensia 72 , pp.173-188.
• Machielsen, J. and Pfeffer, M. 2023. A work out of time: Religion and the decline of magic at 50. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies 261 (1), pp.259-296. (10.1093/pastj/gtad012)
• Machielsen, J. 2023. Sanctity and the refashioning of early modern Catholicism: Saints and their causes between Rome and locality. Papers of the British School at Rome 91 , pp.347-348. (10.1017/S0068246223000181)
• Lamal, N. and Machielsen, J. 2023. Jesuits and print: the polemical example of John Hay. Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (3), pp.405-418. (10.1163/22141332-10030001)

2022

• Machielsen, J. 2022. The devil is in the tales: Evaluating eye-witness testimony in Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones magicae (1599–1600). Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 11 (2), pp.258-280. (10.5325/preternature.11.2.0258)

2021

• Machielsen, J. 2021. Bad reasons: elites and the decline of magic. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 16 (3), pp.406-414. (10.1353/mrw.2021.0050)
• Machielsen, J. 2021. What’s in a name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and monks in the Christian imagination, c.1500–1700. In: Levitin, D. and Maclean, I. eds. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Comparative Approaches. Vol. 33, Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Brill. , pp.277-335.
• Machielsen, J. 2021. The war on witchcraft: Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr, and the origins of witchcraft historiography. Elements in Magic Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (10.1017/9781108953313)
• Machielsen, J. 2021. How to study memories in the making. British Catholic History 35 (3), pp.338-351. (10.1017/bch.2021.6)

2020

• Machielsen, J. ed. 2020. The science of demons: early modern authors facing witchcraft and the devil. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9780203702512)

2019

• Machielsen, J. 2019. The making of a teen wolf: Pierre de Lancre’s confrontation with Jean Grenier (1603–1610). Folklore 130 (3), pp.237-257. (10.1080/0015587X.2019.1587935)
• Machielsen, J. 2019. When a female Pope meets a biconfessional town: Protestantism, Catholicism, and popular polemics in the 1630s. Early Modern Low Countries 3 (1), pp.1-31. (10.18352/emlc.88)

2018

• Machielsen, J. 2018. On the confessional uses and history of witchcraft: Thomas Stapleton's 1594 witchcraft oration. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 13 (3), pp.381-407. (10.1353/mrw.2018.0046)

2017

• Machielsen, J. 2017. An aspiring saint and his work: Cesare Baronio and the success and failure of the Annales ecclesiastici (1588–1607). Erudition and the republic of letters 2 (3), pp.233-287. (10.1163/24055069-00203001)

2016

• Machielsen, J. 2016. Sacrificing Josephus to save Philo: Cesare Baronio and the Jewish origins of Christian monasticism. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 23 (3), pp.239-245. (10.1007/s12138-016-0407-5)

2015

• Machielsen, J. 2015. Martin Delrio: Demonology and scholarship in the Counter-Reformation. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press.
• Machielsen, J. 2015. A history of early modern Catholicism in a single object: John Hay's manuscript Apologia (c.1598). British Academy Review 26 , pp.64-68.

2014

• Machielsen, J. 2014. The rise and fall of Seneca Tragicus, c. 1365-1593. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes LXXVII , pp.61-85.
• Machielsen, J. 2014. The lion, the witch, and the king: Thomas Stapleton's 'Apologia pro Rege Catholico Philippo II' (1592). English Historical Review 129 (536), pp.19-46. (10.1093/ehr/cet381)

2013

• Machielsen, J. 2013. Bodin in the Netherlands. In: Lloyd, H. A. ed. The Reception of Bodin. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Brill. , pp.157-192. (10.1163/9789004259805_009)
• Machielsen, J. 2013. Friendship and religion in the Republic of Letters; the return of Justus Lipsius to Catholicism (1591). Renaissance Studies 27 (2), pp.161-182. (10.1111/j.1477-4658.2011.00773.x)

2012

• Copeland, C. and Machielsen, J. 2012. Introduction. In: Copeland, C. and Machielsen, J. eds. Angels of Light? Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Brill. , pp.1-16. (10.1163/9789004233706_002)
• Machielsen, J. 2012. Heretical saints and textual discernment: the polemical origins of the Acta Sanctorum (1643-1940). In: Copeland, C. and Machielsen, J. eds. Angels of Light? Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period,. Brill. , pp.103-141. (10.1163/9789004233706_006)

2011

• Machielsen, J. 2011. Thinking with Montaigne: evidence, scepticism and meaning in early modern demonology. French History 25 (4), pp.427-452. (10.1093/fh/crr060)

2010

• Machielsen, J. 2010. How (not) to get published: the Plantin Press in the early 1590s. Dutch Crossing 34 (2), pp.99-114. (10.1179/030965610X12726397286124)