Dr Catherine Rider

Lecturer

MA, PhD (London)

Extension: 4318

Telephone: 01392 724318

I am interested in the religious and cultural history of Europe in the late Middle Ages. My research focuses particularly on the history of magic and the church's attitude to magic, but I am also interested in religious history more generally, and in the history of medicine and the body. I am currently in the last stages of writing a book on the church's attitude to magic in medieval England, looking at which practices they viewed as magical, and why, and how they persuaded people not to do magic. I am also beginning a new project on the history of attitudes to infertility in medieval England.