Our day school this year explores the themes of magic and superstition involving belief in non-rational, supernatural connections between actions, objects and outcomes, often aimed at controlling the future and preventing misfortune. Our presenters today will look at aspects of how “magical thinking” — assuming thoughts and beliefs can influence the physical — pervaded every aspect of the medieval world.
This event will be all day and in person only.
Details, including the price, will be confirmed later this year.
Eight hundred years ago this year Moreton-in-Marsh was granted its market charter by Henry III. It has survived as a charming Cotswolds market town and, in this 800th anniversary year Tim Porter, who needs little introduction to members of the...
Medieval hunting birds were central to the noble sport of falconry and highly specialised raptors were chosen by rank and prey - eagles for emperors, gyrfalcons for kings, peregrines for nobles and merlins for ladies. These birds were, and still...
The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain is generally held to have begun after the Roman withdrawal and ended with the Norman Conquest. This 600-year period saw Germanic tribes — Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians — settle and establish kingdoms and eventually...
Warwick ‘the Kingmaker’ - Richard Neville - was a nobleman, a military commander in the Wars of the Roses. He was an influential politician who would by stealth, cunning and daring be in virtual control of the country for many years until...
Following on from her highly praised presentation on the early history of Evesham, in February this year, Carmel Langridge will bring us up to date with her "other history of Evesham", from the dissolution of Evesham Abbey to recent history....
The Society's annual Christmas dinner at Holland House for Society Members only and their guests. Details will be published later in the year.
