{"id":2827,"date":"2017-11-13T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies?p=1076&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=1076"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T14:03:25","slug":"catherine-rider-research-postcard-from-malta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2017\/11\/13\/catherine-rider-research-postcard-from-malta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Magical Activities in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Appropriately \u2013 given that it was Halloween \u2013 I spent part of reading week in the archives researching the history of magic.&nbsp; Dr Alex Mallett (formerly of Exeter, now based in Leiden) and I were doing some of the final research for an AHRC-funded project led by Professor Dionisius Agius, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies on \u2018Magic in Malta, 1605: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition\u2019 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk\/iais\/research\/projects\/magicinmalta1605\/\">here <\/a>for more details).&nbsp; I\u2019ve written about this project on the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2015\/02\/maltas-magic-hat\/\">before<\/a>, when we were at a much earlier stage.&nbsp; To recap, it studies the case of Sellem, a Muslim slave who was accused of offering a variety of magical services to Christians.&nbsp; The case gives us a fascinating insight into many magical beliefs, Christian-Muslim relations, and many other aspects of life in early modern Malta and, with the help of a team of other British, Maltese and French scholars, we\u2019ll be exploring these in the book we\u2019re producing as the main outcome of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex and I were researching in the Cathedral Archive in Mdina, which holds the inquisition records and, once again, gave us a friendly welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter 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