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Rebecca Riley

Rebecca's research has been predominantly into heretical or marginal figures within medieval theology. She wrote a book on decadent saints for Dedalus and a novel based on her doctoral research into the medieval heretic Marguerite Porete.

For a rainy day

[ opinion - october 10 ]

Advice for novice street-walkers

Blood culture: The heretic, vampire and the Jew

[ strangeness - august 02 ]

Long ago and far away, a blood-sucking fiend was born, and he's not dead yet... The vampire's shape-shifting flight from Lilith to Dracula

'At leisure for love': amorous rhetoric in the Helfta Mystics

[ strangeness - july 02 ]

When the Helfta nuns described themselves as Brides of Christ, they were serious...