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The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland

Posted on 1 December 20209 December 2020 by Michael

Today, Manchester University Press published The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland, a fine collection of papers which originated at a

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political prophecy, publications

Blind devotion: sight-loss and religion in early modern Britain

Posted on 13 November 202020 November 2020 by Michael

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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disability, mysticism

Publications

Posted on 11 July 201926 July 2021 by Michael

Over the last few years I have neglected the website to focus on a number of projects about mysticism and

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Demystifying mysticism – Scottish style

Posted on 14 January 201716 April 2021 by Michael

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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mysticism

Book contract

Posted on 10 December 20164 July 2020 by Michael

Over the last few months, I’ve been locked up in libraries across this island gathering source material for my book,

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book, news, publications, Robert Leighton
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‘The last revelation that shall be putt in print’: mystics and prophets in Scotland

Posted on 6 September 201629 April 2021 by Michael

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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French Prophets, mysticism
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Hello world

Posted on 1 September 20161 December 2020 by Michael

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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