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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Jean d’Arras’s Roman de Mélusine is a remarkable romance in its use of interiority and emotion to ground a supernatural plot in a believable emotional context. Written in 1392, it […]
While researching my UCL master’s dissertation on ‘Magic, Illusions and Deceptions of the Sight’, I came across an illuminating and relatively under examined topic: magic as an expression of humour […]
On Thursday 7th July the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) ran a one-day thesis workshop at the Warburg Institute, London, for current and prospective Masters and PhD […]
