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Oldridge, Darren. Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.(Book Review)
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Oldridge, Darren. Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. London: Routledge, 2005. 216 pp. Cloth, $33.95.
Darren Oldridge's new book, Strange Histories, is a fascinating study of the psychology behind belief in medieval and early modern Europe. In his book, Oldridge looks at everyday beliefs from an earlier age that seem quite bizarre to our twenty-first century minds. The book is a well-researched compilation of brief stories and histories that touch on subjects from religion to law, often ...
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; Strange Histories Darren Oldridge Routledge 270 Madison Ave., New York NY 10016 www...flying witches were part of the belief system of everyday man. Strange Histories: The Trial Of The Pig, The Walking Dead, And Motehr Matters Of...
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; Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact...society and translating them for a non-specialist audience. In Strange Histories, Darren Oldridge tackles this formidable task head-on. As his title...
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; ...political parody. So Rigaud must indeed have been out of favor with the authorities. His English cousin is Thomas Deloney's Strange Histories (1602), in which an agenda is as hard to describe convincingly as it is fascinating to imagine. Two essays deal with the...
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