Appeal for Boggart Census

De optimistische bevrijdingsboodschap van de bogomielen, 2009

This article describes the stages of initiation which the medieval bogomils had to pass through before they reached a state of perfection. Just before they became a perfectus or theotokos they received the consolamentum, the only sacrament the bopgomils had. In this consolamentum played the bogomilian version of the Lord's Prayer a very important role.

2004

The bogs of north-west Europe once were dangerous, fog-filled places where a wrong turn or step could result in accidents such as getting lost or drowning. It is not difficult to understand, therefore, why the people of the past believed that gods and spirits inhabited the swamps. These gods and spirits controlled life and death, sickness and health, good crops and bad harvests, and happiness and misfortune. The ancient peoples believed that valuable gifts and sacrifices would win them good graces of the gods and they made their sacrifices to the bogs believing that they were a kind of doorstep between their world and that of the gods. An impressive new overview of all these discoveries is presented in the exhibition “The Mysterious Bog People”, to be seen from September 18th 2004 in the Drents Museum in Assen (The Netherlands). Never before have so many sacrifices, including bodies and objects, been found in such concentration.

2024

This Educational Project is the final elaboration for the Masterclass course held by Professors F. Buscemi, K. E. Hollwand and J. Z. Resnikoff for Semester 1a 2024-2025 at Groningen University

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium Days of Justinian I, 2018

The author examines the connection between beliefs of the Bogomils and the ideas of the Reformation. Controversially, the former have been called "the precursors of the Reformation" and even "the first Protestants in Europe". These claims will be investigated here in the light of the subject of free will. Both the similarities and differences between bogomilian thinking and the ideas of the most important reformer, Martin Luther, will be discussed.

Bogomilism was a dualist religio/political sect that was founded in the first Bulgarian empire by the priest Bogomil. During the reign of Tsar Peter I, in the tenth century.

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This talk was given 27 Nov 1888 at Burnley for the Burnley Literary and Scientific Club. It was, then, published in the Club’s Transactions: the bibliographical reference is – James McKay, ‘The Evolution of East Lancashire Boggarts’, Transactions of the Burnley Literary & Scientific Club 6 (1888), 113-127. There are three good reasons for reprinting it here. First, though there are lots of scattered references to boggarts from nineteenth-century Lancashire this is the single longest sustained piece of writing on the subject. Second, McKay’s essay is not easy to get hold of. The pdf of the Transactions is floating around online, but for 95% of the population, perhaps 99% of these who would be interested, it will prove difficult to find. Third, the publishers of the Transactions cut McKay’s talk towards the end. However, at three points contemporary newspapers were more generous in reporting McKay’s words. It has been possible, then, in the footnotes, to restore some of the original text or at least the original content. Welcome, then, to ‘The Evolution of East Lancashire Boggarts’ a century and a quarter after it was first given.

A discussion of boggarts in dialect literature, particularly 19C Lancashire dialect. There is also a list of boggart works.

Between 1902 and 1903, Richard Mudie-Smith carried out a survey of attendance at places of worship in London on behalf of The Daily News newspaper. It was self-described by Mudie-Smith as the first ‘scientific’ survey in contrast to the official census of 1851 and The Daily News census of 1886, there were nevertheless severe problems with his methodology. An estimate of the accuracy of the Mudie-Smith survey can be obtained by comparison with the Quaker survey of attendance in the summer of 1904.

abstract: The year 2017 marked the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation, and it has been celebrated throughout Europe. In this paper, the author aims to examine the connection between beliefs of the Bogomils and the ideas of the Reformation. Controversially, the former have been called " the precursors of the Reformation " and even " the first Protestants in Europe. " These claims will be investigated here in the light of the subject of free will and the so called bogomilian dualism. Both the similarities and differences between Bogomil thinking and the ideas of significant reformers, such as John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and Martin Luther, will be discussed. Based on textual sources, it is argued that there are shared beliefs between Bogomils and reformers, and that both have a strong will to reform the religious life, but we cannot say that there is clear evidence that ideas of the Reformation have been adopted directly from these early dissidents. We can conclude, however, that Bogomil ideas served as an eye-opener for protestant thinkers, though beliefs about free will changed throughout history. Whereas Bogomils believed in the free will of their Perfects, Pico della Mirandola, being inspired by the Gnostic tradition, adopted this, together with Humanists such as Erasmus, and early reformers of the Church, like Wycliffe and Hus. However, the instigator of the Reformation, Luther, changed his mind radically, and rejected the idea of a free will for human beings altogether in favor of the grace