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Catherine Rider

Catherine Rider is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. She teaches and researches on the history of magic, medicine, fertility and reproduction in medieval Europe. She is the author of two books about medieval magic and its relationship with mainstream science and religion, Magic and Religion in Medieval England and Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages, which won the Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs award.  Catherine has talked about her research, and about magic in general, on ITV News, Radio 4’s Today Programme, Making History, and BBC Radio Devon and Radio Somerset. She lives in Exeter.