Dr Tabitha Stanmore (University of Bristol) joins Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman to unpick assumptions about medieval and early modern magical practitioners, and to explore the role that nature played in charms and spells.
Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.
Works Consulted
*‘The Nine Herbs Charm’, in Robert E. Bjork (ed.), Old English Shorter Poems: Wisdom and Lyric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. 194-201
*William Shakespeare, Macbeth (London: Penguin, 2015)
Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams (trans.), The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain (London: Penguin, 2020)
Christopher Dell, The Occult, Witchcraft, and Magic: An Illustrated History (London: Thames and Hudson, 2016)
Ronald Hutton, The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017)
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2017)
Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations (Abingdon: Routledge, 1996)
Lyndal Roper, The Witch in the Western Imagination (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012)
Liz Williams, Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism (London: Reaktion Books, 2020)
Music:
'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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