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12. A Monument to the Great Fire of London
By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) If you have ever disembarked off the London Tube at Monument, you have probably walked past the memorial from which the station gets its name. This 202-foot (61 metres) high column was built to memorialise the 1666 Great Fire of London, which destroyed thousands of houses and numerous churches in central…
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14. Turkeys and Devils: Jesuits in Parisian Streets
By Tiéphaine Thomason, @teaphaine It should come as no surprise that, in a society of highly variable literacy, satire was often oral. Such was the world of the Parisian street in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This satire was often set to popular tunes to be sung, as well as recited, and stuck up on…
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17. Two Episodes of Maritime Exorcisms in the life of Theodore of Sykeon
by Zeynep Olgun, @Fall_of_Zeynep The life of Theodore of Sykeon, an ascetic who lived in the Eastern Mediterranean around sixth-seventh centuries, was documented by his disciple George shortly after Theodore’s demise.[1] The narrative includes two intriguing episodes of exorcism involving rodents and maritime culture. To analyse these episodes, we can briefly turn our attention to…
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