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Sensory Experience in the Reformation Era: Interview with Dr Emma Wells

Ecclesiastical History SocietyOct 16, 2020

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Talking with... Professor Catherine Rider

Talking with... Professor Catherine Rider

In this episode, we talk with ⁠Professor Catherine Rider ⁠(University of Exeter) about her recent research and public outreach.


Catherine Rider's recently co-edited the book Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 (2022). She is also the author of numerous books and articles, including Magic and Religion in Medieval England (2012) and Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (2006).

Feb 08, 202416:48
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue- Interview with Professor Christopher Bellitto

Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue- Interview with Professor Christopher Bellitto

This episode's guest is Professor Christopher Bellitto (Kean University). He is Professor of History at Kean University in New Jersey and a specialist in the Middle Ages, church history and reform. He serves as series Editor in Chief of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition and Academic Editor at Large for Paulist Press.


His publications include Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue (Georgetown University Press, 2023), Ageless Wisdom: Lifetime Lessons from the Bible (Paulist Press, 2016), and 101 Questions and Answers on Popes and the Papacy (Paulist Press, 2008).

Jan 18, 202431:13
Talking with... Professor Craig Harline
Dec 30, 202326:41
Talking with... Professor David Maxwell
Nov 13, 202323:49
Talking with... Professor Alexandra Walsham
Sep 26, 202317:25
Talking with... Emeritus Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
Aug 30, 202325:27
Talking with... Dr David Parry
Aug 10, 202318:44
Talking with... Emeritus Professor Katy Cubitt

Talking with... Emeritus Professor Katy Cubitt

In this episode, EHS president Emeritus Professor Katy Cubitt (University of East Anglia) describes what it's like to be president of a learned society and the importance of becoming an active member of societies for early career researchers.




Jun 29, 202311:38
Talking with... Professor Mary Heimann

Talking with... Professor Mary Heimann

In this episode, we chat with Professor Mary Heimann (Cardiff University) on tips for public speaking and academic publishing. Professor Heimann is a Professor of Modern History, with particular expertise in Czechoslovakia, English Catholicism and Communist-Catholic relations during the Cold War. She founded and currently directs Cardiff's ⁠Central and East European Research Centre⁠ and ⁠Czechoslovak Special Collection⁠.


You can read more about her research in her publications: Catholic Devotion in Victorian England (Oxford University Press), ‘Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment’, in A World History of Christianity, and Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed (Yale University Press).

May 29, 202315:19
Talking with... Dr Caroline Bowden
Apr 27, 202320:35
Religious Debates and Popular Culture in Napoleonic France: Reconceptualising the Druids - Interview with Dr Stewart McCain

Religious Debates and Popular Culture in Napoleonic France: Reconceptualising the Druids - Interview with Dr Stewart McCain

In this podcast, Dr Stewart McCain discusses his recent article which discusses the Academic celtique and their reconceptualising of the ancient Celts. The work of the Academic celtique, he suggests, shows the complexities of French nation-building projects through debates about popular culture in France.

Mar 28, 202344:55
Talking with...Dr James Kelly

Talking with...Dr James Kelly

Episode 3. In this episode we are joined by Dr James Kelly (Durham University) to talk about how to organise academic conferences.


Dr Kelly is the Sweeting Associate Professor (Research) in the History of Catholicism at Durham University. His interests are in post-Reformation Catholic history in Europe, with a particular focus on Britain and Ireland. The experience of the British and Irish Catholic communities at home and in exile is the main focus of his research. His most recent publication, English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, is now available in paperback.

Mar 13, 202315:55
Talking with... Dr Chris Langley
Mar 02, 202320:53
Occult Politics in Britain - An Interview with Dr Francis Young

Occult Politics in Britain - An Interview with Dr Francis Young

In this interview with Dr Francis Young we discuss his monograph (released in March 2022), 'Magic in Merlins' Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain'. We discuss the historical intersection between magic and religion and their simultaneous entanglement with politics.

Feb 09, 202342:43
Talking with... Dr Emily Michelson

Talking with... Dr Emily Michelson

Our inaugural episode of 'Talking with Religious Historians' features Dr Emily Michelson, a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. In this episode, Dr Michelson speaks about her career as a religious historian and gives advice on how to publish in academia. 

Jan 26, 202318:51
Women, Dance and Parish Religion with Dr Lynneth Miller-Renberg

Women, Dance and Parish Religion with Dr Lynneth Miller-Renberg

In this episode, we chat with Dr Lynneth Miller-Renberg about gendered conceptions of dance within parish churches in late medieval and early modern England. This topic is discussed in more detail in her upcoming monograph: 'Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England 1300-1640'.

Oct 26, 202248:48
Godly Preaching in Sickness and Ill Health in the 17th Century by Dr Robert Daniel

Godly Preaching in Sickness and Ill Health in the 17th Century by Dr Robert Daniel

In this episode we discuss Robert’s upcoming article in the SCH volume 58 – on sickness experienced by clergyman in the 17th century. This article, which won the ‘President’s Prize’ for 2020/21 homes in on the significant role which illness played in the pulpit performance of post-Reformation preachers in England.

Jun 07, 202243:16
The Man and Message of Ebenezer Howard by Prof Frances Knight

The Man and Message of Ebenezer Howard by Prof Frances Knight

This podcast discusses the upcoming biography on Ebenezer Howard which will form part of the OUP’s ‘Spiritual Lives’ series. Renowned for his prominent role in the ‘Garden City Movement’, we discuss how this biography will uncover his religious roots and inspiration.

May 17, 202249:14
Catholics during the English Revolution - Interview with Dr Eilish Gregory

Catholics during the English Revolution - Interview with Dr Eilish Gregory

In this interview we discuss Dr Eilish Gregory's recent monograph 'Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Sequestration and Loyalty'. A topic of which there has been a dearth of material is explored masterfully by Eilish, as we discuss the treasure-trove of insight this period affords those interested in Catholic culture, theology, and history.

Nov 04, 202148:41
The Precious Gift of the Caroline Divines - Interview with Dr Jacob Phillips

The Precious Gift of the Caroline Divines - Interview with Dr Jacob Phillips

In this interview, Dr Jacob Phillips shares his research from his book chapter Service in Perfect Freedom: The Precious Gift of the Caroline Divines found in 'The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion'. This chapter reflects on theological dimensions of Anglican culture in the 17th century.

Sep 28, 202141:11
God and History in the Carolingian World - Interview with Rev. Dr Robert Evans

God and History in the Carolingian World - Interview with Rev. Dr Robert Evans

In this interview, we talk to Rev. Dr Robert Evans about his upcoming book (the culmination of his PhD research) which focuses on the value of history in the Carolingian world.

Aug 24, 202134:21
Jonathan Edwards and Slavery - Interview with John Lowe

Jonathan Edwards and Slavery - Interview with John Lowe

In this episode, we discuss John's recently edited volume 'Jonathan Edwards within the Enlightenment: Controversy, Experience & Thought'. Much of the discussion focuses on his contributed chapter which discusses Edwards and his views on slavery. 

Jul 08, 202127:25
Catholics Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age - Interview with Dr Carmen Mangion

Catholics Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age - Interview with Dr Carmen Mangion

In this interview we discuss Carmen's latest book: Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular age: Britain, 1945-90 - looking at the experience & identity in the post-War era.

May 28, 202146:14
Chosen Peoples in the Early Medieval West - interview with Dr Conor O'Brien

Chosen Peoples in the Early Medieval West - interview with Dr Conor O'Brien

In this interview we explore the 'chosen peoples' motif as it is noted in early medieval western thought and experience. 

Apr 14, 202148:55
Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890-1962: Interview with Dr Reuben Loffman

Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890-1962: Interview with Dr Reuben Loffman

In this interview, we talk to Dr Reuben Loffman about his EHS Prize short-listed monograph on the Congo. With this research, Dr Loffman investigates the relationship between Church and State in the colonial empire. 

Mar 09, 202142:46
Anti-Catholicism in Imperial Britain: Interview with Dr Geraldine Vaughan

Anti-Catholicism in Imperial Britain: Interview with Dr Geraldine Vaughan

An interview with Dr Geraldine Vaughan talking about her upcoming monograph on Anti-Catholicism in Imperial Britain. We discuss the historical actors involves in anti-Catholicism and the contexts of anti-Catholicism in Britain.

Jan 30, 202125:12
Converting Britannia in the Age of Wilberforce: Interview with Dr Gareth Atkins

Converting Britannia in the Age of Wilberforce: Interview with Dr Gareth Atkins

In this episode, we interview Dr Gareth Atkins about his monograph 'Converting Britannia' published in 2019. Shortlisted for the EHS prize, this monograph analyses public religion in the 'Age of Wilberforce'.

Jan 05, 202139:07
Sacred Journeys in the Counter Reformation: interview with Professor Elizabeth Tingle

Sacred Journeys in the Counter Reformation: interview with Professor Elizabeth Tingle

In this episode, we discuss Professor Tingle's latest monograph 'Sacred Journeys in the Counter Reformation' which analyses the devotional experience of pilgrimages in the Catholic Reformation.

Nov 04, 202049:15
Sensory Experience in the Reformation Era: Interview with Dr Emma Wells

Sensory Experience in the Reformation Era: Interview with Dr Emma Wells

In this episode, we discuss Emma's recent research on the Reformation Era as she interrogates sensory experience amongst Protestant groups, noting how this compares with Catholic counterparts, and - furthermore - how it fuelled actions of iconoclasm.

Oct 16, 202042:32
Quaker Motherhood and Domestic Authority in the 17th and 18th centuries: interview with Naomi Pullin

Quaker Motherhood and Domestic Authority in the 17th and 18th centuries: interview with Naomi Pullin

Naomi Pullin was shortlisted for the EHS prize in 2019, for her first monograph 'Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism 1650-1750. During this podcast episode, Naomi discusses research that arose from this monograph, and further research she has been undertaking on Quaker women and maternity. An article is shortly forthcoming called 'Motherhood and Domestic Authority in British and Colonial Quakerism'.

Sep 04, 202044:54
Memory of Rome, the papacy and the Liber Pontificalis (Book of Pontiffs): Interview with Rosamond McKitterick

Memory of Rome, the papacy and the Liber Pontificalis (Book of Pontiffs): Interview with Rosamond McKitterick

In this third episode of our EHS podcast we talk to Rosamond McKitterick about the Liber Pontificalis. The Liber Pontificalis (book of Pontiffs) is elucuidates for listeners. Key to the discussion in this podcast is how this text contributes to a people’s (re)construction, knowledge and use of the past. This research manifests in Rosamond's lastest publication: Rome and the invention of the papacy: the Liber pontificalis.

Jul 29, 202040:33
Clerical Lives in Early Modern Scotland: Mapping the Scottish Reformation with Chris Langley and Mikki Brock

Clerical Lives in Early Modern Scotland: Mapping the Scottish Reformation with Chris Langley and Mikki Brock

In this interview with Dr Chris Langley and Dr Michelle Brock, we discuss their on-going project 'Mapping the Scottish Reformation' : a forthcoming database which will offer a first port of call and, hopefully, a catalyst for understanding and linking the lives of clerics in the early modern period. Mikki and Chris share their enthusiasm about this project, suggest how it might be used by researchers and hobbyists, and undcover some interesting themes they have discovered.

Jun 30, 202044:33
Perceptions of medicine in the medieval and early modern world: Interview with Alec Ryrie

Perceptions of medicine in the medieval and early modern world: Interview with Alec Ryrie

Alec Ryrie discusses his latest publication - Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt.  Much attention is given to the perceptions of medicine in the medieval and early modern period, with a special treat as he reads from one of his primary sources demonstrating contemporary views.

May 26, 202035:58