Workshop on Medieval Magic: Future Directions
Wednesday 26 June 2019 IAS Ground, South Wing, UCL Convened by Sophie Page (UCL) and Catherine Rider (Exeter) The recently published The Routledge History of Medieval Magic (January 2019) brought […]
Category Archives: Cosmology
Conference Report: Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
Historians have learned to appreciate the supernatural as integral to past lives. No longer are magical beliefs and practices anachronistically condescended to as ‘superstitions’, entertained only by a credulous minority […]
The Routledge History of Medieval Magic: Reflections on a Big Editing Project
This post was first published on the blog of the Exeter Centre for Medieval Studies. I’m very pleased to announce that the Routledge History of Medieval Magic, edited by Sophie Page (UCL) […]
Magical Thoughts: The Making of Spellbound
Our exhibition Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, led by Sophie Page with art historian Marina Wallace, has disappeared into the ether and […]
Prepare to be Spellbound: Our Ashmolean Exhibition is Now Open!
I’m delighted to announce that Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, the project’s exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on which I’ve been leading with art historian Marina […]
Now Booking! Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
St Anne’s College, Oxford 17–19 September 2018 #InnerLives18 An international conference organised and funded by the Leverhulme Trust research project Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300–1900. Introduction | Programme […]
Melancholy Witches, Love Magic, and a Sinister Island: Inner Lives at #isch17
The project was on the road again last week for the tenth conference of the International Society for Cultural History (26–29 June 2017). The event took as its topic ‘Senses, […]
Love and the Senses in the Medieval Cosmos: The Cosmic Egg of Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a German abbess, writer, composer, mystic, and visionary. To anyone unacquainted with her writings, her description of the ‘cosmic egg’ cosmos in Book One Vision […]
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