Thanks again for your fascinating piece, Will!
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Thanks again for your fascinating piece, Will!
Front cover of “A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Empire” edited by Owen Davies Shows two women looking at playing cards together
TOC CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SERIES PREFACE vii x Introduction 1 Owen Davies 1 Magic, Religion, and Belief Lisa Tallis 19 2 Magic as Cultural Crossroads Yseult de Blécourt 41 3 Practices and Practitioners Helen Cornish and Owen Davies 59 4 Magic and Gender 83 Owen Davies 5 Authorities and Control William G. Pooley 105 6 Magic and Material Culture Owen Davies 127 7 Magic, Animals, and Plants Debora Moretti 149 vi CONTENTS 8 Imagining Magic Karl Bell NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX 171 193 195 222 224
Pleased to get my hands on this (my original copy was taken by the piskies/befuddled/waylaid)
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@odavies9.bsky.social @witchykallestrup.bsky.social
Terror on the streets?
Contemporary neo-fascism at large ...
Trump’s America? This. Is. Wrong.
Today, people all over Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) took to the streets, to show our contempt for the American bullying of our nations.
We will not bow to threats. Greenland belong to its people!
#KalaallitNunaatTapersersorparput
#MakeAmericaGoAway
Service info to the confused or derailed, this is the true flag 🇬🇱
#greenland
Christ giving the keys to Peter, 1482. Extra scenes in background, w/ people throwing stones at Christ (on right) are A+ use of deep space. Painted in the Sistine Chapel by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
Such a pleasure talking to @janalena.bsky.social for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
For all Danes interested in our own witch-hunting history, I can suggest tuning in to DR2 on Monday 📺 (or Sunday for streaming)
Here, I - and other lovely people such as @witchykallestrup.bsky.social - feature in DRs new four episode documentary “Heksejagt”.
#Skystorians #hextag 🗃️
The CfP is out for next year's HEX Centre for the History of Experience conference: Histories of Experience in Society: Frictions, Margins, Ruptures
8th Annual Conference,
Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences
Tampere Uni.
events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
Looking forward to this!
Great to see this is out!
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I'm delighted to announce that I've just been appointed by
@cambridgeup.bsky.social to edit a brand new and exciting
Elements series, 'Elements in Folklore' (with Dr Tabitha Stanmore), which will aim to publish the latest research in folklore that's 20-30k words long! #folklore 📚
We look forward to welcoming you!
Of course😊!
Just finished this today. Brilliant and a great read. Kudos, @witchykallestrup.bsky.social ! #skystorians #earlymodern
Thank you! I am delighted that you enjoyed it😊
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
Wonderful Folklore and Mythology symposium on Magic and Legend last Saturday at @harvard.edu Great talks and homage to Prof. Stephen Mitchell. #witchcraft #folklore folkmyth.fas.harvard.edu/2025-magic-a...
Post Doc!
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
#Skystorians 🗃
And with a 20% publication discount
Today this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social ! If you wish to read about the Danish link to the North Berwick trials, Christian IV and the divine duty to eradicate witches in Denmark in early 17th century, go get your copy 🏃📖 #earlymodern #history #witchhunts www.routledge.com/The-Construc...
9 Mar 1619: Queen Anne of #Denmark's body begins lying in state at Somerset House - and stays there till 13 May
There's still time to get your abstracts in for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft conference!
Please share widely in this low-algorithm world 💌
Ch 2 'Day of Wrath', demonstrates how an Apocalyptic ideas were disseminated through visual and oral media by Danish Lutheran reformers in the one space where everybody gathered: the parish church. Out 31 March on @routledgehistory.bsky.social
Anne of Denmark - a dog person, of course.
Paul van Somer Anne of Denmark & a Groom Signed and dated 1617 The half-hidden groom wears Oldenburg livery. The new works by Inigo Jones at Oatlands are seen in the background.
(Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)
Horrible!
Soon this is out on @routledgehistory.bsky.social .I argue that #witchcraft in DK was constructed through the eschatology and the ideals for good Christian people of the reformers, and the strive for the godly state of the early 17c. A godly ruler had a divine duty to eradicate witches #earlymodern