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SUMMARY:Black Masses\, Poltergeists\, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire\, UK
DESCRIPTION:Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana.\nSince its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s\, politicians\, critics\, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways.  The 4th Earl of Sandwich\, Francis Dashwood\, and John Wilkes\, all early members of the group\, publicized their libertine behaviors — drunkenness and hyper-masculine sexuality in particular.  They suggested that the grounds of West Wycombe manor\, the parish church\, and even the local chalk mines had been locations of the monks’ debauchery.  Within a generation\, locals were regaling tourists with stories of haunted churchyards and caves\, leading unsuspecting tourists on muddy romps to see the ghosts of the Franciscan Friars.  One hundred years later\, the stories of the friars’ haunts had become infused with stories of black magic and satanic orgies.  When the National Trust took over the West Wycombe estate and the associated grounds in the 1930s\, the stories about the area had become such a part of the local history that it became central to drawing tourists to West Wycombe.  By the 1950s\, the oral histories of the Monks prompted the National Trust to introduce a Disney-esque array of wax figures into the re-opened chalk mines\, promoting stories about eighteenth-century ritualized sex\, ghostly tales\, and black magic in the accompanying literature.  The West Wycombe lore found a ready audience\, andthe popularized version of black masses\, poltergeists\, and sex rituals found\nrepetition in late twentieth-century history writing\, X-Men comics\, and even a Japanese cartoon series. \nThrough a virtual walking tour through West Wycombe\, this paper is\, in part\, an attempt to separate the factual from the mythological stories surrounding the eighteenth-century Monks of Medmenham Abbey.  More importantly\, however\, it shows why the telling and retelling of the stories about the monks — in particular stories about their libertinism — have remained important to the construction of elite identity into the twenty-first century. \njwil 10.x.08
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/black-masses-poltergeists-and-ritual-sex-reconstructing-the-libertine-topography-of-west-wycombe-buckinghamshire-uk/
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SUMMARY:Malaria\, Witchcraft\, Infant Cemeteries and the Fall of Rome
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria).  The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies.  DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria.  The cemetery also offers evidence of witchcraft and puppy sacrifice ca. A.D. 450.  Circumstantial and physical evidence suggest that the area of Umbria / Tuscany may have become a malarial zone contributing to the fall of Rome.\nDavid Soren is Regents Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona\, and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria.  He holds a B.A. in Greek & Roman Studies from Dartmouth\, and an M.A. in Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Harvard.  He has done extensive field work in Cyprus\, Italy\, Portugal\, and Tunisia\, and has received numerous honors and awards for his work. \nThis is the annual Sandra Church Lecture.  The Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America gratefully acknowledges the support of Sandra Church in making this lecture possible. \nIf you wish to attend this lecture and need special assistance due to a disability please call (805) 893-3556. \njwil 01.x.08
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/malaria-witchcraft-infant-cemeteries-and-the-fall-of-rome/
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SUMMARY:Working-Class Readers\, Libraries and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era
DESCRIPTION:Tobias Higbie\, Associate Professor of History at UCLA\, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest\, 1880-1930 (2003)\, which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History. \nhm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08
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