Posts belonging to Category 'Medieval Belief'
August 9, 2010 | Posted by Mark
I caught the third episode of the BBC series Inside the Medieval Mind, presented and written by Professor Robert Bartlett. The episode I watched was on Belief. I thought Bartlett did a great job of not just recounting religious beliefs, but instead delved into beliefs around life and death and how the two were linked [...]
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July 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark
As part of my research into magic in the Middle Ages I have been reading Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin (published in 1834). It is not the most thoroughly researched of academic texts on the subjects, but it is fine for getting an overview of legends related about a number of medieval thinkers [...]
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July 28, 2010 | Posted by Mark
If you are interested in the research of magic and witchcraft in the middle ages you may have come across the following seminal works: Henry Charles Lea‘s A History of the Inquisition (3 volumes): although this title covers all of the activities of the inquisition and therefore mainly the crime of heresy, there is also [...]
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June 9, 2010 | Posted by Mark
My story Bird Talk is about a young priest, Roger, living in a small medieval English town, who is trying to uncover what he believes are foul magical deeds. But instead he manages to implicate the women he loves in accusations of witchcraft and, with the help of the town drunk, must work out a [...]
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December 24, 2009 | Posted by Mark
Lovely church scene and good selections of medieval art that give a feel of what Christmas may have been like in the Middle Ages. Have a great Christmas!
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July 6, 2009 | Posted by Mark
This audio slideshow sort of backs up what I was saying in a previous post about Medieval medicine – but the quacks weren’t seen as quacks at the time and of course this medical ignorance lasted into the 2oth century.
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June 26, 2009 | Posted by Mark
Imagine you are suffering from a bad fever, aches, cough and general flu like symptoms. You might even have the fearsome swine flu. Nowadays you might take pain-killers to relieve the symptoms, or seek medical advice in case you had something more serious. In the Middle Ages, if you could afford to see a doctor, [...]
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