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'Mark Gatiss in Conversation', with Mark Gatiss & Janina Ramirez

Time: September 20, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm(GMT+01:00) Location: Blackfriars Priory Ladybellegate St, GL1 2HN £14 / £6 Livestreamed

From The League Of Gentlemen to Doctor Who and Sherlock, writer, actor, director and novelist Mark Gatiss has been the creative genius behind some of the most iconic television and film productions of our time. He is currently working on, and starring in, a new detective series set in the fascinating period between 1945 and 1950 when Britain was still recovering from the war. He joins Janina Ramirez to discuss his acting, his writing and the fascinating relationship between television drama and its historical settings.

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"Today the word 'illiterate' is associated with a lack of education. But the methods of passing down information in the non-literate communities of early medieval England were incredibly sophisticated. Individuals could recite poems from memory over the course of many hours, if not days. They had to retain information on bloodlines, land possession, law codes, as well as a vast body of stories, myths, and history. To be illiterate was not to be ignorant, but rather to utilise more of the memory actively."

-Dr. Janina Ramirez, "Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It" (2022, p. 40-41 of the 2023 edition)

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I've just started reading Janina Ramirez' Femina which starts with a discussion about Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself under the King's horse at the Derby. The section is about how she and many of her peers were medivalists who revered Joan of Arc. But Ramirez also mentions the hate mail Davison got from men on her deathbed, something I didn't know. It seems the world has changed little in the last 110 years, at least when it come to a certain type of man.

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“Femina, A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it” by Dr Janina Ramirez

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If it is hard to get a handle on Cathars generally, then it is even more so with regards to Cathar women. Accounts are contradictory, with some stating they could hold the very highest roles within communities, while others say there was 'no great tolerance for women.' A role call of fascinating individuals come and go with passing references in inquisitorial records: Berengere 'put aside the sect of the heretics, was reconciled and received a husband.' Fabrisa kept a group of Cathars safe at her castle in Montreal, but was forced to flee from crusaders. Berbeigueira was a believer for 30 years and had to watch as her husband, on his deathbed, expelled all Cathars from their home. From these records, we can be sure that many women were drawn to Catharism.

Femina, Janina Ramirez

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Janina Ramirez on a documentary about Vikings: In 793...

My Nerd  Brain *Plays the Horrible Histories Viking Song*

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 Mark Gatiss tells Janina Ramirez how his work as an actor comes with exciting experiences that fulfill his love and fascination of history.