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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 20h

A great pleasure to attend yesterday’s responses to Prof. Susannah Ticciati’s wonderful inaugural lecture, Does God Play Hide and Seek? on Augustine and human fallibility, where we were reminded that God is not a thing and that no one has more access to God than others.
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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve only just received the flyers and promotional material for my new book on the water horse. I’m pleased to able to offer a 25% discount when ordering directly from the publisher by using the discount code: PROMO25 @folkloresociety.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 9d

The third of the quarter days and beginning of autumn, of darker nights and colder days. Happy Michaelmas! My goose has been fattened on the stubble from the fields after harvest: ‘Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, want not for money all the year’, or so they say! #Michaelmas #AllAngels

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed, with the crucial ‘?’ His name means ‘who is like God?’ (the implied answer being nobody), sometimes misleadingly translated as the quite different, ‘he who is like God’. Variously cited as chief of the order of Virtues, chief of Archangels, Prince of the Presence, angel of repentance, etc.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 10d

Well done! Wasn’t sure about the image myself but I recollect that a white lady is associated with Wycoller.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 11d

‘Both an overarching historical and cultural survey and a handy reference source’. Thank you to Stephen Miller for a generous review of ‘Paganism Persisting’ in the latest number of ‘Folklore’ 📚 @robincdouglas.bsky.social

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 11d

This is unfortunately the problem with academic titles in hardback (particularly the important ones). Fingers crossed that a paperback edition will eventually follow.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 11d

This may be the Wycoller Old Pack Horse Bridge near Wycoller Hall in Lancashire, said to be haunted by a white lady.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · 11d

September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉
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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mantua for the Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducal (with its Mantegna frescoes).

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Aug 8

Up close and personal with Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery today.

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Aug 6

Advance copies of my new book have arrived, featuring artworks from Victoria Ford, Stephen Cook & Herbert James Draper; epigraphs from Statius, Robert Burns & DBH; and endorsements from Francis Young @addhart.bsky.social Simon Young & Jeremy Harte. What’s not to like!? @folkloresociety.bsky.social

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 29

That's very kind of you. 🙂

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 29

With thanks Morgan.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 29

Published soon... to follow in due course.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 29

My new book is on its way… index complete, cover design set and carrying very welcome back-cover endorsements from luminaries in the fields of folklore, theology and the history of belief.
@kcltrs.bsky.social ‬ @addhart.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 11

My poem ‘The Changeling’ (illustrated by Stephen Cook) appears in June’s FLS. @folkloresociety.bsky.social

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jul 9

As a devotee of her work for decades now, great to finally get to meet Emily Young, following the McDonald Agape Lecture in Theology & the Visual Arts at the Inner Temple Lecture Theatre and reception yesterday. As she has said of herself, a ‘servant of the stones stillness’. Inspirational work!

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jun 24

On the Feast Day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (marking his birth rather than death), here is my snapshot of a panel from Pietro Lorenzetti’s Pieve Polyptych, featured at the very recent ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting’ show at the National Gallery, London.

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jun 13

Glorious day! Contracts signed, manuscript of latest book submitted! Time to slump and to introduce the sun’s rays to some pallid flesh (with copious G&Ts on the side!)… ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ […well the first bit anyway]. 👍

Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jun 7

This landed on my doormat this morning, from Pwca Books. Good to see folk willing to take the trouble to collect the reports for this sort of case study. It is also a splendidly lively and entertaining read!

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · Jun 1

#StandingStoneSunday
Avebury and Stonehenge.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · May 30

Back from a couple of days visiting Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, the standing stones at Avebury (the largest megalithic stone circle in the world), the site of Wolf Hall, and the Seven Stars in Bottlesford! A fine excursion.

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · May 11

Journeying back from Ramsgate to North London today, stopping off at Saint Augustine’s Cross (Minster), All Saint’s, Tudeley (for the Chagall stained-glass, beautifully illuminated by today’s sunshine) and Down House (the home of Charles Darwin).

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Stephen Miller @miller-flash-1066.bsky.social · May 9

Attended preview for tomorrow’s reopening (at long last) of the £85m revamp and rehang of the NG's Sainsbury wing. They haven’t buggered it up as much as I feared they might. There is an austere elegance to the upper rooms and the rehang is well organised.

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