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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: How to Rule a Magical World: Europe, 1400–1700
Description: Recorded Oct 27, 2022
Prof. Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh) delivers the keynote address of the "Demons: Good and Bad" interdisciplinary conference, organised by the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub Research Incentive Scheme.
How could you rule a magical world – a world pervaded by supernatural powers? You would have to make sure that people didn’t use illicit supernatural powers in antisocial ways. In particular, you would have to make sure that they didn’t use illicit supernatural powers subversively, against your own authority. But your main strategy for ruling successfully would be to...