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This episode Will & Mike slip into their cassocks, whip out their prayerbooks and head down to Southminster for ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’ by M.R. James.
Questions answered in this episode:
– When is a vampire not a vampire?
– Do Lamia have hairy legs?
– What length of skirt do Mike and Will wear?
Big thanks go out to Roger Burton West who provided the readings, and Alisdair Wood for the awesome custom illustration on the right!
Show notes
This story refers twice to characters in Dickens’s famously unfinished novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’.
There are various suggestions in the story that M.R. James may have had Rochester Cathedral in mind while writing this story.
This website illustrated quite how much the Isaiah quote which appears in this story differs from one translation to another!
The latin quotes in this story make reference to two creatures from Greek Mythology, the Lamia and the Satyr.
Apparently the plot of this story was used as part of a hoax played on Fate magazine in 1977!
This essay examines ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’ and discusses the mythical creatures mentioned in the story.
This story refers to ‘Simeon’s Lot’, a reference to the English evangelical preacher Charles Simeon, who James’s own father was a follower of.
Patrick and Fred are two American academics who are conducting research into the medaevalist and antiquarian background of M.R. James’s stories.
During this episode we mention various essays which are featured in this book, including essays by Michael A. Mason, Jacqueline Simpson
The excellent footnotes on this story in the ‘A Pleasing Terror’ ebook were of great help to us when researching this story.
The unfinished James tale dubbed by Rosemary Pardie ‘Speaker Lenthall’s Tomb’ bears some striking similarities to ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’.
It is an understatement to say that M.R. James was not a big fan of the architectural changes undertaken in British churches in the name of the gothic revival during the 18th and 19th century.
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This episode Will & Mike slip into their cassocks, whip out their prayerbooks and head down to Southminster for ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’ by M.R. James.
Questions answered in this episode:
– When is a vampire not a vampire?
– Do Lamia have hairy legs?
– What length of skirt do Mike and Will wear?
Big thanks go out to Roger Burton West who provided the readings, and Alisdair Wood for the awesome custom illustration on the right!
Show notes
This story refers twice to characters in Dickens’s famously unfinished novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’.
There are various suggestions in the story that M.R. James may have had Rochester Cathedral in mind while writing this story.
This website illustrated quite how much the Isaiah quote which appears in this story differs from one translation to another!
The latin quotes in this story make reference to two creatures from Greek Mythology, the Lamia and the Satyr.
Apparently the plot of this story was used as part of a hoax played on Fate magazine in 1977!
This essay examines ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’ and discusses the mythical creatures mentioned in the story.
This story refers to ‘Simeon’s Lot’, a reference to the English evangelical preacher Charles Simeon, who James’s own father was a follower of.
Patrick and Fred are two American academics who are conducting research into the medaevalist and antiquarian background of M.R. James’s stories.
During this episode we mention various essays which are featured in this book, including essays by Michael A. Mason, Jacqueline Simpson
The excellent footnotes on this story in the ‘A Pleasing Terror’ ebook were of great help to us when researching this story.
The unfinished James tale dubbed by Rosemary Pardie ‘Speaker Lenthall’s Tomb’ bears some striking similarities to ‘An Episode of Cathedral History’.
It is an understatement to say that M.R. James was not a big fan of the architectural changes undertaken in British churches in the name of the gothic revival during the 18th and 19th century.
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