Odin’s men

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

The story of some of the last peoples in Europe to embrace Christianity

AFRICAN FOLKLORE

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors