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Category: Seminars
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‘The Ministry and Magic in Early Modern Orkney’ with Prof Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
This paper explores practices and attitudes around access to supernatural power in early modern Orkney, from the later sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. It seeks to ask what parish ministers thought of the persistence of magical beliefs within their congregations, and also what people in those congregations…
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“Islandian sovereignty” with Gerard Prinsen an Islands Matter Seminar
The Islands Matter webinars are the result of a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jennings Institute for Northern Studies UHI, Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI and Dr Beth Mouat Shetland UHI. This series of webinars was set up to address the hunger in the Scottish islands to hear from…
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Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V’: Dr Alison Cathcart
As part of the Institute for Northern Studies Autumn – Winter Seminar Series Dr Alison Cathcart of the University of Stirling presents ‘They ‘offered to give what they do not even hope to gain’: Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V.’ Recorded on 25 November…