Stephen Gordon

Researcher of medieval and early modern supernatural beliefs. Particular interests in ghosts, revenants, ritual magic, burial archaeology and irony/satire.

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Delighted to announce that my book, Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England, c.1050-1450, is finally out to buy. Huzzah!

Available hard copy/ebook via the link below:

https://t.co/EtpCdb5kv8

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

My new article for Review of English Studies, 'Conjuring the Dead in St Erkenwald', is out now on open/early access.

https://t.co/wKkADccTOH

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

And also out online!

https://t.co/OZObMCIkwY

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Good to see this out in the wild! (Viator 55: 2)

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Publications are like buses it seems! My chapter on medieval revenants for the The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie is also out now.

https://t.co/ppsxikMiBq

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Nice to see this out in the wild

[CharlotteRose Millar @drcmillar]

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emostorians

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Looking forward to giving my talk on the Lanercost Chronicle undead story at the IMS research seminar next week!

https://t.co/kGoik4KsxE

[CharlotteRose Millar @drcmillar]

Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Despite the travel mishaps coming home, I really enjoyed participating in the IAS conference and listening to some wonderful papers. Until next time!

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

@JSung Technically yes - I was denied boarding and given no reason why (even though I booked the flight in Jan), which is why I was in such a mood. But yeah, I've already sent my compensation claim to KLM.

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

This has been a thoroughly miserable day. Denied boarding home-bound flight for reasons unknown, trapped in Schiphol, and no news at all from airline about the rebooking. Absolute Purgatory.

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

Great supernatural sessions today at the IMC. I was very gratified to talk about my current research on revenants in the Lanercost Chronicle.

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Two weeks to go until our BookTalk on Simone de Beauvoir's Prix Goncourt winning novel The Mandarins.

Fittingly enough, we meet dans le cafe @littlemancoffee

[Grave Matters: Death Studies Discussion Group @GraveMatterz]

We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy @TheProfRog @S_R_Gordon Sign up for free here: https://t.co/sa3lKGGuk3 and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Todays blog, we interview Meredith Miller about her new novel Fall River.

https://t.co/vsXgd9954S

[Cardiff BookTalk @CardiffBookTalk]

Coming on 19 March - novelist Meredith Miller brings Fall River (@honno) to BookTalk.

Book your free place here: https://t.co/KUhf15RLbD

[Cardiff University Special Collections & Archives @CUSpecialColls]

Ken continues to find the weirdest things while cataloguing!

Today it's an actual fig leaf, tucked into an 18th century book about Adam and Eve...

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

@CeriHoulbrook @UniofHerts Congrats!

[Stephen Gordon @S_R_Gordon]

@drcmillar Congrats!