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English social historian (1946-2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Anthony Sharpe, FRHS (9 October 1946 – 13 February 2024) was an English social historian who was a professor emeritus of early modern history at the University of York. He was a specialist in witchcraft, and crime and punishment, in early modern England.[1]
Sharpe earned his BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and joined the University of York as a lecturer in 1973.[2] He became professor in 1997 and retired in 2016.[3]
Sharpe died on 13 February 2024, at the age of 77.[4]
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