Contract signed with Four Courts Press: Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in Medieval Ireland
I am pleased to say that I have just signed a contract with Four Courts Press, Ireland’s leading academic publisher, for a book entitled Athassel Priory and the Cult of St … Continue reading
Review: Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe by Liesbeth Corens
My review of Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe by Liesbeth Corens has just been published in Reviews in History. The book is an important contribution to the historiography … Continue reading
Contributing to Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Magic
I have just signed a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing to contribute a chapter to a new six-volume Cultural History of Magic due to be published in 2021. I shall be … Continue reading
Why do people laugh at fairies?
Why do so many people laugh, almost as an unthinking reflex, as soon as fairies are mentioned? This is a question that has intrigued me since I wrote a book … Continue reading
Talking Tudor magic with Natalie Grueninger
Tudor expert Natalie Grueninger recently interviewed me for her popular podcast ‘Talking Tudors’ about magic, witchcraft and ghosts in Tudor England – a suitable topic for broadcast on Friday 13th! … Continue reading
Article published: ‘Edward Kelley’s Danish treasure hoax and Elizabethan antiquarianism’
My article ‘Edward Kelley’s Danish treasure hoax and Elizabethan antiquarianism’ has just been published in Intellectual History Review. The article focusses on a single strange episode that occurred during the … Continue reading
Publication of The Secret Disclosed by Margaretta Greene
My edition of Margaretta Greene’s novella The Secret Disclosed: A Legend of St Edmund’s Abbey has just been published, making this work available in print again for the first time … Continue reading
