The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland
Today, Manchester University Press published The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland, a fine collection of papers which originated at a
Continue readingBlind devotion: sight-loss and religion in early modern Britain
The following is a slightly amended version of a paper I delivered to the Experiences of Dis/Ability conference last August
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Over the last few years I have neglected the website to focus on a number of projects about mysticism and
Continue readingDemystifying mysticism – Scottish style
In 1934, the Regius Professor of Divinity at Aberdeen, G.D. Henderson, published an account of the piety of northern Scotland
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Over the last few months, I’ve been locked up in libraries across this island gathering source material for my book,
Continue reading‘The last revelation that shall be putt in print’: mystics and prophets in Scotland
What does this crystal-ball have in common with this collection of books?… … both have been described as ‘mystic’. Spiritual writing,
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My name is Michael Riordan and I have fairly recently graduated from Cambridge with a PhD which explored mystics and prophets in Scotland during what we historians like refer to as the long eighteenth century, the period running from the Revolution of 1688 to the Great Reform Act of 1832 (or something like that).
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