Coral: The Enduring Magic of the Medusa’s Blood
Coral is a complex marine organism and has a calciferous skeleton. It is sometimes blood red and is vascular in its form. Therefore in Greek legend it was said to […]
Category Archives: Medieval
Now Booking! Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
St Anne’s College, Oxford 17–19 September 2018 An international conference organised and funded by the Leverhulme Trust research project Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300–1900, with generous additional […]
The Sphere of Magical Thinking: The Enchanting History of Crystal Balls
In 1582 John Dee (1527–1609), mathematician, astrologer, magician, and antiquary, claimed that he had been given a magic crystal by an angel called Uriel. Eventually this slightly purple rock crystal, […]
Call for Papers: Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
St Anne’s College, Oxford 17–19 September 2018 An international conference organised and funded by the Leverhulme Trust research project Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300–1900, with generous additional […]
Intrigue and Incantation: Treasonous Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England
Between the 1320s and the 1620s a significant proportion of all accusations of high treason in England involved a magical element. People were accused of casting the horoscope of the […]
Workshop Report: Approaching Inner Lives: Thinking, Feeling, Believing, 1300-1900
It is now a commonplace for every discussion of the history of the emotions to start with reference to an ‘affective turn’, but the overcoming of historians by emotion of […]
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, […]
Witch Stones and Demon Dogs: 6 Chilling East Anglian Landscape Legends
Since I joined the project in late 2016, a regular extracurricular activity has been a weekend jaunt from my base in Norwich into the countryside of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and […]
Superstitious Talk: Is It Time to Move On from the ‘S-Word’?
The idea for this post began with an exchange on Twitter with the Inner Lives project – stimulated by this innocuous-sounding Tweet promoting the excellent supernatural holdings of the Museum […]
Approaching Inner Lives: Thinking, Feeling, Believing, 1300-1900
Videos of most papers are now available on our YouTube channel! To watch a specific talk, click on its title in the programme below. Tuesday 28 March 2017 Room 0.05, […]
