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.
[3] Sharpe died on 13 February 2024, at the age of 77.
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