Week of Events
Black Masses, Poltergeists, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Black Masses, Poltergeists, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since 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 […]
Malaria, Witchcraft, Infant Cemeteries and the Fall of Rome
Malaria, Witchcraft, Infant Cemeteries and the Fall of Rome
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 […]
Working-Class Readers, Libraries and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era
Working-Class Readers, Libraries and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era
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. hm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08