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A Summer School on Hungarian Church History
by Elvira Tamus (@evtamus) Between the 6th and 8th August 2021, I attended the 7th Fraknói Summer Academy organised for postgraduate students and early career researchers interested in Hungarian church history. It was an unique opportunity for young historians, including me, to get to know the latest scholarly collaborations and debates in the field of…
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Oddments of Imperium: St. Mark’s of Bangalore
By David Martin (Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Substack: @davidmartin8293 A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. From the gargoyle-studded Notre Dame de Paris to the bird-woman-spotted St. Paul’s of London, monuments that bear this name are meant to represent an ancient genealogy of European Christendom. But what happens when said Christendom arrives…
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Popery, or the Scarlet Church of the Malabar (and The Protestants who Named Her)
by David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk) @David_8293 “Accompanied by hundreds of drums, trumpets, and all the discordant noisy music of the country; with numberless torches and fireworks: the statue of the Saint placed on a car is charged with garlands of flowers and gaudy ornaments according to the taste of the country… Such is the mode in…
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An Andrean Postcolonial
David Martin (daim3@cam.ac.uk / Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social) Auspicio Regis et Senatus Angliae — the words stand bold on the façade of St. Andrew’s Church — the Kirk, a reminder of a time when these structures were erected by the grace of kings and the elder statesmen. These were monuments as much to themselves as to the…
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