Christina Larner (22 September 1933 Шаблон:Spaced ndash 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 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]
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]