CHAPTER 16. ‘Supernatural Folklore and the Popular Imagination: Re-reading Object and Locality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Norfolk’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of illustrations ix
5. CHAPTER 1. ‘Introduction: On Faith, Objects and Locality’ 1
6. CHAPTER 2. ‘But where is Norfolk?’ 19
7. CHAPTER 3. ‘Sacred Image and Regional Identity in Late-Prehistoric Norfolk’ 30
8. CHAPTER 4. ‘Piety from the Ploughsoil: Religion in Roman Norfolk through Recent Metal-Detector Finds’ 50
9. CHAPTER 5. ‘Paganism in Early-Anglo-Saxon East Anglia’ 66
10. CHAPTER 6. ‘Devotion, Pestilence and Conflict: The Medieval Wall Paintings of St Mary the Virgin, Lakenheath’ 88
11. CHAPTER 7. ‘Here Be Dragons: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch and Strategies for Survival’ 105
12. CHAPTER 8. ‘The Medieval Jews of Norwich and their Legacy’ 117
13. CHAPTER 9. ‘Late-Medieval Glass-Painting in Norfolk: Developments in Iconography and Craft c.1250–1540’ 130
14. CHAPTER 10. ‘Graffiti and Devotion in Three Maritime Churches’ 148
15. CHAPTER 11. ‘Norfolk Wayside Crosses: Biographies of Landscape and Place’ 163
16. CHAPTER 12. ‘Landscapes of Faith and Politics in Early-Modern Norwich’ 179
17. CHAPTER 13. ‘Practice and Belief: Manifestations of Witchcraft, Magic and Paganism in East Anglia from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day’ 194
18. CHAPTER 14. ‘Provinciality and the Victorians: Church Design in Nineteenth-Century East Anglia’ 209
19. CHAPTER 15. ‘Maharajah Duleep Singh, Elveden and Sikh Pilgrimage’ 223
20. CHAPTER 16. ‘Supernatural Folklore and the Popular Imagination: Re-reading Object and Locality in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Norfolk’ 240
21. CHAPTER 17. ‘Pro Patria Mori: Christian Rallies and War Memorials of Early-Twentieth-Century Norfolk’ 253
22. CHAPTER 18. ‘Pagans in Place, from Stonehenge to Seahenge: “Sacred” Archaeological Monuments and Artefacts in Britain’ 273
23. CHAPTER 19. ‘Art, Spirit and Ancient Places in Norfolk’ 287
24. CHAPTER 20. ‘Sacred Sites and Blessed Objects: Art and Religion in Contemporary Norfolk’ 298
25. Bibliography 315
26. Index 349