Beliefs In The Early Medieval Period (with Dr Eoghan Ahern)

Dr Eoghan Aherne visits the cabin to talk about the early medieval period, and some things we might believe about it that might not be true! Topics include:

-modern myths about the medieval period

-were medieval people particularly credulous?

-a medieval flat Earth?

-classical ideas during the medieval period: the four elements

-the scientific revolution as continuity rather than revolution

-the importance of miracles and the Irish saints

-the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’

-Religious relics in Ireland

-Belief in the Devil, demons and possession

-St Colmcille and the Loch Ness Monster

-Pagan gods as demons

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Bede and the Cosmos, Eoghan Aherne, 2020

https://www.routledge.com/Bede-and-the-Cosmos-Theology-and-Nature-in-the-Eighth-Century/Ahern/p/book/9781138365438

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Why Can The Dead Do Such Great Things

Robert Bartlett

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691169682/why-can-the-dead-do-such-great-things

Observation In the Margins, Katherine Park

https://www.academia.edu/7785602/_Observation_in_the_Margins_500_1500_in_Lorraine_Daston_and_Elizabeth_Lunbeck_eds_Histories_of_Observation_Chicago_University_of_Chicago_Press_2011_15_44