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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.
A Cestrian Song - Explorations With the Extraordinary Hinterland of Cheshire History is available here!
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
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Manage episode 382783640 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.
A Cestrian Song - Explorations With the Extraordinary Hinterland of Cheshire History is available here!
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
33 jaksoa
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