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2025 · Research article

Cover of Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest, volume 57, issue 1 (2025)

Witch Persecutions in Croatia through the History of Emotions

Authors: Zvjezdana Sikirić Assouline and Deniver Vukelić
Original title: Progoni vještica u Hrvatskoj kroz perspektivu povijesti emocija
Published in: Radovi Zavoda za hrvatsku povijest 57, no. 1 (2025), 325–355.

The article examines the 1749 trial of Barbara Petruša through the history of emotions, exploring the role of fear, anger, disgust and emotional communities in witchcraft accusations and judicial proceedings.

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2026 · Conference publication
Book of Abstracts front cover

Contra sagas: Book of Abstracts

Early Modern Witch Trials in the Habsburg Monarchy (16th–18th Centuries)

Editors: Deniver Vukelić and Gergely Brandl
Place and year: Zagreb, 2026
ISBN: 978-953-8349-91-1

Abstracts and programme of the international conference held at Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, on 13–14 October 2026. The updated 42-page conference booklet is available to read online and download as a PDF.