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What the Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag can tell us about Early Modern Misogyny

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 1d

The Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag is, and always will be, the best ever medieval witch story. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-the-w...

Medieval witch stories, and a literary grandmother for the Wife of Bath

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 2d

This looks excellent.

RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 8d

Daemonologie: A King's Obsession with Witches 🧙‍♀️

Join us and author Steve Veerapen, for an intriguing evening exploring how a king's paranoia stoked the fear that the devil was stalking early 17th Century Scotland!

📆Thursday 30 October 2025
🕙7pm GMT
🎫£10

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Title page from King James VI & I's book on Daemonologie

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 5d

Some of them are, though apparently it's not a good idea as there's an acid in them that really ought to be cooked. NB, I discovered this several years ago, *after* my toddler munched handfuls. She suffered no ill effects. :D

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 5d

So satisfying!

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 6d

*Want*

Dill, Sour Cream, and Memories

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 6d

New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...

The wind is getting up again now.

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 7d

Lovely! Thank you. :D

'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 26d

Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...

Reading Diary, September 5th to September 13th, 2025

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Reposted by Lucy Allen-Goss

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 26d

New blog post: some recent reading reviewed, from Booker-shortlisted historical fiction to 70s SF to a forthcoming literary novella drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r... #booksky

Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project. This Booker-shortlisted novel purports to be a collection of papers concerning a (fictional) notorious murder case; in 1869, a seventeen-year-old crofter c…

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · 26d

This is a reflection on Greenblatt's Marlowe biography, and a medievalist's take on his presentation of grammar school Latin. I do think he misunderstands some of the joy that might underpin Marlowe's plays. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin

‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ooh! I shall look forward to it. And how appropriate!

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

No idea! (What an inadequate medievalist am I?!). But I will go look; thank you!

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Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

How wonderful!

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ha! It does. And if you do, please let me know?

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

It should, shouldn't it?!

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ha! Don't all the best things include the humours? (Actually, I would *love* to see a medieval reference to how the humours affect us drunk and sober ...).

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks!

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

It is a bit late. But no harm! I'll have a browse.

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

I know, right?! :D I actually posted this question on behalf of a friend, and 10 minutes in I thought 'ah, this one is going to run and run'. Good times.

Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm really going for medieval, if possible. I think the Porter is drunk rather than hungover?