Christina Larner

Christina Larner (22 September 1933  – 27 April 1983) was a British historian with pioneering studies about European witchcraft and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow.[1][2] She was an expert on the history of witchcraft in Scotland.[3]

Christina Larner
Born
Christina Jessy Ross

(1933-09-22)22 September 1933
London, England
Died27 April 1983(1983-04-27) (aged 49)
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
OccupationHistorian
EmployerUniversity of Glasgow
SpouseJohn Patrick Larner
Children2

Early life and education

Christina Larner was born in London, the daughter of Helen Margaret Wallace and John MacDonald Ross, senior civil servant, who both went to university.[1] After attending South Hampstead High School for Girls (London), she matriculated and graduated with first class honours in Modern History in 1957 at the University of Edinburgh.[4] She was awarded a PhD at the University of Edinburgh for her thesis 'Continental Influences on Scottish Demonology, 1560–1700’ in 1962.[4][5]

Academical career

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Larner moved to the University of Glasgow as a part-time assistant in the Department of Politics and Sociology in 1966.[4] In 1972, she was appointed Lecturer in Sociology and was subsequently Senior Lecturer. She was awarded a titular professorship at the University of Glasgow in the same year as she died.[1][2]

Photograph of Christina Larner

Private life

In 1960, she married John Patrick Larner, a historian of Renaissance Italy.[1] They had two sons, Patrick and Gavin.[4]

Selected list of published works
  • A Source-book of Scottish witchcraft (1977, 2005)[6]
  • Enemies of God (1981)[7]
  • Witchcraft and Religion (1984)[3]
  • The Thinking Peasant (1982) Glasgow: Pressgang ISBN 0946025207

References
  1. The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004. Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. pp. 201. ISBN 9780748626601. OCLC 367680960.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Christina Larner". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  3. Christina., Larner (1984). Witchcraft and religion : the politics of popular belief. Macfarlane, Alan. New York, NY: Blackwell. pp. Foreword from Alan Macfarlane. ISBN 0631134476. OCLC 10923757.
  4. "Christina Jessy Larner". The Gifford Lectures. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  5. Ross, Christina Jessy (1962). "Scottish demonology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its theological background". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. A source-book of Scottish witchcraft. Larner, Christina., Lee, Christopher Hyde., McLachlan, Hugh V. Glasgow: Grimsay Press. 2005. ISBN 1845300289. OCLC 73488021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Christina., Larner (2000). Enemies of god : the witch-hunt in Scotland. Edinburgh: J. Donald. ISBN 0859765180. OCLC 45791061.
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