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Magic, Medicine, Miracles: How Reading Abbey Helped to Invent Halloween
by Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers On Saturday 27 October, I had the privilege of giving a public lecture for the Friends of Reading Abbey, in the presence of the Mayor of Reading, Councillor Debs Edwards. The event took place in St … Continue reading
The Long Read. Impressions of a Modern Pilgrim: Walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela
by Dr Rebecca Rist Whan that Averylle with his shoures soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, … Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrymages When in April the sweet showers fall, And pierce the drought of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, history, Medical History, Medieval, Middle Ages, observations, pilgrim, pilgrimage, religious history, Spain, travel
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Call For Papers: ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’, 10th-11th July 2017
We are delighted to issue a call for papers for Reading University’s biennial Early Modern Studies Conference, ‘Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750’ (10th-11th July 2017). There will be three strands running through the conference: medical grievances literary complaints political/religious grievances The keynote … Continue reading
A Historical Perspective on “Wolf Hall”: Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More Revisited
Dr Rebecca Rist, Associate Professor in Religious History, gives her thoughts on the BBC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. No doubt many of us have been tuning in to watch the television adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall on … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptations, BBC, Cromwell, Hilary Mantel, Period drama, religious history, Wolf Hall
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‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’ – Medieval popes and the concept of papal infallibility
By Professor Rebecca Rist. My research focuses on the history of religious culture and the medieval papacy, and especially the relationship between popes and specific social and religious minority groups, such as Jews (in my recent book, Popes and Jews, … Continue reading →