The Sacred and the Sinister Cache Owens and American historians

and American historians

and transgender foster and adoptive parents

drinking habits

When all knowledge is seemingly digitised and available for reference at any time

and interesting people -- those with dyslexia

The Sacred and the Sinister Cache Owens and American historiansInspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and