Stephen Gordon
@S_R_Gordon
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Researcher of medieval and early modern supernatural beliefs. Particular interests in ghosts, revenants, ritual magic, burial archaeology and irony/satire.
Joined September 2015
Delighted to announce that my book, Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050-1450, is finally out to buy. Huzzah! Available hard copy/ebook via the link below: https://t.co/EtpCdb5kv8
routledge.com
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobilised by the devil, a purgatorial spirit returning...
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My new article for Review of English Studies, 'Conjuring the Dead in St Erkenwald', is out now on open/early access. https://t.co/wKkADccTOH
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Abstract. The Middle English poem St Erkenwald is one of the most well-known literary artefacts of late medieval England. Found uniquely in BL, MS Harley 2
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Publications are like buses it seems! My chapter on medieval revenants for the The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie is also out now. https://t.co/ppsxikMiBq
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Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emostorians
Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
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Looking forward to giving my talk on the Lanercost Chronicle undead story at the IMS research seminar next week! https://t.co/kGoik4KsxE
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Gordon presents a paper for the Institute for Medieval Studies seminar series 2024-25.
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Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
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Despite the travel mishaps coming home, I really enjoyed participating in the IAS conference and listening to some wonderful papers. Until next time!
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This has been a thoroughly miserable day. Denied boarding home-bound flight for reasons unknown, trapped in Schiphol, and no news at all from airline about the rebooking. Absolute Purgatory.
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Great supernatural sessions today at the IMC. I was very gratified to talk about my current research on revenants in the Lanercost Chronicle.
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Two weeks to go until our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's Prix Goncourt winning novel The Mandarins. Fittingly enough, we meet dans le cafe @littlemancoffee
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We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy @TheProfRog @S_R_Gordon Sign up for free here: https://t.co/sa3lKGGuk3 and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!
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Todays blog, we interview Meredith Miller about her new novel Fall River. https://t.co/vsXgd9954S
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Coming on 19 March - novelist Meredith Miller brings Fall River (@honno) to BookTalk. Book your free place here: https://t.co/KUhf15RLbD
The next BookTalk is on the blog now! Britain’s Internal Borderlands – Meredith Miller in conversation with Kevin Morgan https://t.co/Irm2UNpvga
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Ken continues to find the weirdest things while cataloguing! Today it's an actual fig leaf, tucked into an 18th century book about Adam and Eve...
Would you Adam and Eve it? Cardiff's copy of the 1793 Exposition of the Old and New Testaments came complete with a free fig leaf Modesty Hider (TM) #thingsfoundinbooks
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Looking forward to giving my seasonally-appropriate lecture on the Friar's Tale tomorrow. Lots of lovely insights into medieval demonology.
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Very superstitious! 🔮 Look no further than this book of magical charms from the 17th century to give you everything you need on Friday 13th 🐈⬛🪄 Will you be protecting yourself from evil or causing mayhem and misfortune this #Halloween?🎃 (@bodleianlibs MS. e Mus. 243)
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New article klaxon! My article on nightmares and astrology in Chaucer's Miller's Tale has just been published in the new issue of JEGP: https://t.co/prvEauw4Wt
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