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
Article in The Reader: ‘Readers in Ecumenical Perspective’
The Reader, the magazine for Readers in the Church of England, has just published my article ‘Readers in Ecumenical Perspective’, in which I compare and contrast the state of lay … Continue reading
Our Lady of Walsingham? The Mystery of the Langham Madonna
An article appears in today’s Catholic Herald co-authored by me and Fr Michael Rear (author of Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage) about the mysterious Langham Madonna, a 13th-century (apparently) statue of a … Continue reading
‘Medieval Magic: Future Directions’ workshop
This afternoon I attended the ‘Medieval Magic: Future Directions’ workshop at UCL, which was organised by Dr Sophie Page and Prof. Catherine Rider, editors of The Routledge History of Medieval … Continue reading
Lecture on ‘Magic in English Political History’ at Birkbeck
Yesterday evening I delivered a lecture entitled ‘Magic in English Political History’ at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of the series Renaissance: Concepts and Issues, at the kind invitation … Continue reading
Review: The Emergence of the English by Susan Oosthuizen
Susan Oosthuizen, The Emergence of the English (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019), 148pp. Susan Oosthuizen’s short book The Emergence of the English is a thought-provoking (not to say provocative) contribution … Continue reading
