Witches and manuscripts this week:
- Deborah Harkness’ ‘A Discovery Of Witches’ TV Series Is Coming Our Way – I’m a bigger fan of her non-fiction but enjoyed the “Discovery” series and am curious to see how it translates to television.
- The Witch (2015 film) is making Neopagan controversy – Rotten Tomatoes loves this exhaustively researched new horror film, but modern pagans are displeased at the films association of witchcraft with satanism. The Satanic Temple’s endorsement of the movie isn’t helping. Being neither pagan nor satanist I’m looking forward to a well-researched movie that all reviews paint as creepily well-done. I don’t usually like horror but I’m curious about this one.
- The Vatican Library has posted 4415 digitized manuscripts from their collection, with more forthcoming.
Image from the Codex Borgianus, one of the few Mesoamerican codices to survive the Spanish conquest. Courtesy the Vatican Library - Also, the British Library has added the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to their digitized holdings.
