Malvern Group Meeting – Do We Still Need the Devil? Professor Darren Oldridge
Thursday 9 February 2023
Darren Oldridge is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Worcester. He is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history. In this talk, Darren will draw on his ongoing work on Tudor and Stuart demonology, and relate this to contemporary concerns.
- Start Date:
- Thursday 9th February 2023
- Start Time:
- 7:30PM
- Location:
- Friends Meeting House, 1 Orchard Road, Malvern, WR14 3DA
- Email:
- andrewrobertwebb@googlemail.com
- Speakers:
- Professor Darren Oldridge
- Cost:
- Free
- Website:
- http://pcnmalvern.org.uk/
Darren Oldridge is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Worcester. He is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history. His interests include witchcraft and the Devil, the supernatural, and the religious context of the English Civil Wars.
A recurring theme of his work is the rationality underpinning apparently strange beliefs: this is reflected, most recently, in the new edition of Strange Histories (Routledge: 2017). More broadly, he is interested in the relationship between poetry and film and the past.
He is author of numerous books including The Devil: A Very Short Introduction and Religion and Society in Early Stuart England. In this talk, Darren will draw on his ongoing work on Tudor and Stuart demonology, and relate this to contemporary concerns.