Christina Jessy Larner
Reader in Psychology, University of Glasgow 1933 1983
About Christina Jessy Larner
Lived 1933 – 1983 (aged 49). Christina Jessy Larner was a British historian and psychologist.
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. She was an expert on the history of witchcraft in Scotland.
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. She was awarded a PhD at the University of Edinburgh for her thesis 'Continental Influences on Scottish Demonology, 1560–1700’ in 1962.
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. Enemies of God (1981) Witchcraft and Religion (1984) The Thinking Peasant (1982) Glasgow: Pressgang ISBN 0946025207
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Reader in Psychology, University of Glasgow 1933 1983
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Christina Jessy Larner was born on 22 September 1933 in London.
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Christina Jessy Larner died on 27 April 1983.
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