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Anne Lawrence – Mathers: Prediction, Prognostication – or Divination? The Medieval Calendar as a guide to the Future.
Anyone who listens to news broadcasts will be familiar with modern forms of forecasting and predicting. These range from the scientific, like weather forecasts, to the more contentious, like predictions […]
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Arnold Hunt (University of Durham): The Forgotten Laudian? Richard Steward and the origins of Anglican high churchmanship
Richard Steward (1595-1651) played a key role in the promotion of Laudianism in the 1630s and the formation of Anglican royalism in the 1640s. During the Uxbridge negotiations in 1645, […]
Seb Falk: Moons, miracles, and magic: what’s in a medieval calendar?
Seb Falk will unpick the curious history of medieval calendars. From the mind-bending maths required to establish the precise length of the year and calculate the date of Easter, to […]
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