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HISTORICAL RE-RUN: SCHOLAR OF MAGIC (RANULF HIGDEN AND THE WANDS OF CHESTER CATHEDRAL)
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The Cheshire monk Ranulf Higden is remembered to historians today as the author of a distant world history from the fourteenth century. However, beyond his daily religious work in the abbey at Chester, he was an inquisitive and curious man of his age; traits that can help us understand better why such a figure of Christian piety would come to be buried with a notorious totem of the magical arts.
Mythstoric Journeys, the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here!
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
37 episodes
Manage episode 477262935 series 3362105
The Cheshire monk Ranulf Higden is remembered to historians today as the author of a distant world history from the fourteenth century. However, beyond his daily religious work in the abbey at Chester, he was an inquisitive and curious man of his age; traits that can help us understand better why such a figure of Christian piety would come to be buried with a notorious totem of the magical arts.
Mythstoric Journeys, the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here!
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
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