Jeremy Harte
Biographic Data
| ID | 504685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Harte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Harte |
| SIGNATURE | HARTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashwell Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The social licence of salmon aquaculture in Tasmania: Fulfilling the social bargain
Salmon aquaculture is one of a number of industries in Tasmania that can benefit from new technologies to reduce the local ecological and community amenity impacts of its coastal operations. This may assist the industry in retaining its social licence to operate (SLO), which is currently in question, so that it can continue generating benefits for local livelihoods. We used Q-methodology to gain empirical insight into aquaculture stakeholder pers…
Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum, 8 February-17 June 2023
In Spring 2023, the hooden horses of South West England gathered at Maidstone Museum, with James Frost for a handler. If you have seen these horses in action—the 12 gaunt Invictae of Broadstairs snap through the crowd like black equine velociraptors—you will find it easy to attribute agency to them. And Frost himself, as a hoodener, is both horse and man.Ancient horses, rescued from the rafters of barns, fraternized with new glossy emblems of Mor…
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
Fairies, demons and nature spirits: ‘Small gods’ at the margins of Christendom
Wiltshire B4 Christ . 180 The Strand, London, 16–27 January 2019
Names and Tales: On Folklore and Place Names
Names, like stories, are linguistic performances; so the twin disciplines of folkloristics and place-name studies can learn from each other’s methods. Some names offer straightforward evidence for traditional culture, but others are rhetorical, not literal. Allusions to goblins, giants, and the Devil derive from playful storytelling rather than supernatural belief, while names of landmarks are used as pegs on which to hang local legends. The rule…
Superstitious observations: Fortune-telling in English folk culture
Magic and divination were dismissed by the Victorian elite as the ignorant beliefs of a socially backward underclass. But a more nuanced approach would ask how magical thought worked in practice. Superstitions were not simply mistaken beliefs, but indicated an alternative universe of interpretation, one in which working-class people took refuge under the strain of misfortunes which would have been too bleak to contemplate in rationally objective …
Send for the Lucky White Mole
There is something to be said for the minor arts of display. While the megafauna of anthropology and social science lock horns on great vexed questions of the field, curators of the small and local
The Secret Shore: Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire
The Secret Shore: Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire." Folklore, 128(4), p. 426
The Veil of the Temple: Sidelights on Archaeologists and the Sacred
Archaeological theorists have identified elites of priests and elders who established social dominance through manipulating ritual access to the sacred, as seen in monuments with outer boundaries and secret chambers. This theory is based on tacit ideas about religion which have their own history beginning with early Christian doctrines about the Veil of the Temple in Jerusalem, and descending through Reformation theology, the Deist controversy, a…
Ronald Hutton , Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic
Hanging on the wall of the main bedroom in the rebuilt Petts Farmhouse, at the Museum of Kent Rural Life in Maidstone, there is a photograph of a child’s shoe. Not the shoe itself, which was return
Yew
Celeste Ray , The origins of Ireland's holy wells
It’s a long way to Tiobraid Arann, that venerated well in the Golden Vale which through the unpredictable mutations of history has given its name to a city, a county and finally a song. A particula
Language, Law, and Landscape in the Anglo-Saxon World
Legal assemblies in the pre-Roman Germanic world derived their power from ritual actions and patron deities. This legitimacy persisted throughout the period of state formation and formed a basis for popular negotiation with the expanding rule of chieftains and kings. In Anglo-Saxon England the significant landscapes of meeting, which included stones, trees, and hills, continued to have symbolic value after Christianization. Through analysis of pl…
Into the Burning Mountain: Legend, Literature, and Law in Booty v. Barnaby
From the mid eighteenth century onwards, the British popular press printed variations on a text about a man whose shade appeared on a volcanic island at the time of his death. These variations derive from manuscript versions copied in the dockside communities of the lower Thames, and circulated among sailors as a libel on fraudulent contractors. The history of the text can be uncovered by collation of its variants, which use a variety of literary…
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Landscapes of Cult and Kingship
Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800
(2012). Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 235-238
Eccentric Life and Peculiar Notions: A Retrospect of John Michell
(2012). Eccentric Life and Peculiar Notions: A Retrospect of John Michell. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 203-210
Maimed Rites: Suicide Burials in the English Landscape
The ignominious burial of suicides at crossroads, including the desecration of their bodies, was required by law in England until 1823. Such inhumane treatment has been seen as evidence for the survival of a primitive superstitious mentality, trying to exorcise a potentially harmful ghost. This interpretation of suicide burial as an essentially archaic practice, lingering unchanged into later and more merciful times, is drawn from the similarity …
Saints in the Landscape
The Tribe of Witches: The Religion of the Dobunni and Hwicce
Dragons, saints and wells
Stories of conflict between saints and dragons flourished between the eighth and fourteenth centuries at the disputed boundary zone between folktale and hagiography. The presence of dragons at wells was an accepted image in vernacular culture, independently adopted by successive writers of saints' Lives to enliven stories about the spiritual power of their heroes and the pastoral and missionary work they performed. In the transition of hagiograph…
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore." Folklore, 122(3), pp. 347–348
The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings
Names and Tales: On Folklore and Place Names
Names, like stories, are linguistic performances; so the twin disciplines of folkloristics and place-name studies can learn from each other’s methods. Some names offer straightforward evidence for traditional culture, but others are rhetorical, not literal. Allusions to goblins, giants, and the Devil derive from playful storytelling rather than supernatural belief, while names of landmarks are used as pegs on which to hang local legends. The rule…
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Landscapes of Cult and Kingship
Into the Burning Mountain: Legend, Literature, and Law in Booty v. Barnaby
From the mid eighteenth century onwards, the British popular press printed variations on a text about a man whose shade appeared on a volcanic island at the time of his death. These variations derive from manuscript versions copied in the dockside communities of the lower Thames, and circulated among sailors as a libel on fraudulent contractors. The history of the text can be uncovered by collation of its variants, which use a variety of literary…
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore." Folklore, 122(3), pp. 347–348
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE) is bold in the sense that it intends to further and document new and integrative perspectives on religion in the Ancient World combining multidisciplinary methodologies. Starting from the notion of "lived religion" it will offer a space to take up recent, but still incipient, research to modify and cross the disciplinary boundaries of History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, Ancient History, Jew…
The Sussex Serpent
Blót on the Landscape: Re-reading Pope Gregory’s Letter on the Heathen Temple
Pope Gregory’s letter written to Abbot Mellitus in the year 601 is often cited as evidence for the widespread Christianisation of pagan British monuments. Jeremy Harte examines this celebrated text and reviews its impact on modern notions of site continuity
The Devil on Dartmoor
Visitors to Devon are offered tales of the Devil on Dartmoor as if these were a timeless, sinister tradition of the moor folk. Historical analysis shows instead that the legends were worked into their present form by folklorists creating a guidebook literature for the new phenomenon of Dartmoor tourism. From 1840 onward, the stories took on an imaginative life which was irrelevant to the lived experience of Dartmoor people but which remained popu…
What's Real and What is Not: Reflections upon Archaeology and Earth Mysteries
Thames: Sacred River
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE) is bold in the sense that it intends to further and document new and integrative perspectives on religion in the Ancient World combining multidisciplinary methodologies. Starting from the notion of "lived religion" it will offer a space to take up recent, but still incipient, research to modify and cross the disciplinary boundaries of History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, Ancient History, Jew…
Maimed Rites: Suicide Burials in the English Landscape
The ignominious burial of suicides at crossroads, including the desecration of their bodies, was required by law in England until 1823. Such inhumane treatment has been seen as evidence for the survival of a primitive superstitious mentality, trying to exorcise a potentially harmful ghost. This interpretation of suicide burial as an essentially archaic practice, lingering unchanged into later and more merciful times, is drawn from the similarity …
Saints in the Landscape
The Tribe of Witches: The Religion of the Dobunni and Hwicce
Dragons, saints and wells
Stories of conflict between saints and dragons flourished between the eighth and fourteenth centuries at the disputed boundary zone between folktale and hagiography. The presence of dragons at wells was an accepted image in vernacular culture, independently adopted by successive writers of saints' Lives to enliven stories about the spiritual power of their heroes and the pastoral and missionary work they performed. In the transition of hagiograph…
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore
Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore." Folklore, 122(3), pp. 347–348
The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings
Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800
(2012). Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 235-238
Eccentric Life and Peculiar Notions: A Retrospect of John Michell
(2012). Eccentric Life and Peculiar Notions: A Retrospect of John Michell. Time and Mind: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 203-210
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind
Landscapes of Cult and Kingship
Into the Burning Mountain: Legend, Literature, and Law in Booty v. Barnaby
From the mid eighteenth century onwards, the British popular press printed variations on a text about a man whose shade appeared on a volcanic island at the time of his death. These variations derive from manuscript versions copied in the dockside communities of the lower Thames, and circulated among sailors as a libel on fraudulent contractors. The history of the text can be uncovered by collation of its variants, which use a variety of literary…
Language, Law, and Landscape in the Anglo-Saxon World
Legal assemblies in the pre-Roman Germanic world derived their power from ritual actions and patron deities. This legitimacy persisted throughout the period of state formation and formed a basis for popular negotiation with the expanding rule of chieftains and kings. In Anglo-Saxon England the significant landscapes of meeting, which included stones, trees, and hills, continued to have symbolic value after Christianization. Through analysis of pl…
The Veil of the Temple: Sidelights on Archaeologists and the Sacred
Archaeological theorists have identified elites of priests and elders who established social dominance through manipulating ritual access to the sacred, as seen in monuments with outer boundaries and secret chambers. This theory is based on tacit ideas about religion which have their own history beginning with early Christian doctrines about the Veil of the Temple in Jerusalem, and descending through Reformation theology, the Deist controversy, a…
Ronald Hutton , Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain: A Feeling for Magic
Hanging on the wall of the main bedroom in the rebuilt Petts Farmhouse, at the Museum of Kent Rural Life in Maidstone, there is a photograph of a child’s shoe. Not the shoe itself, which was return
Yew
Celeste Ray , The origins of Ireland's holy wells
It’s a long way to Tiobraid Arann, that venerated well in the Golden Vale which through the unpredictable mutations of history has given its name to a city, a county and finally a song. A particula
The Secret Shore: Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire
The Secret Shore: Tales of Folklore and Smuggling from Sussex and Hampshire." Folklore, 128(4), p. 426
Superstitious observations: Fortune-telling in English folk culture
Magic and divination were dismissed by the Victorian elite as the ignorant beliefs of a socially backward underclass. But a more nuanced approach would ask how magical thought worked in practice. Superstitions were not simply mistaken beliefs, but indicated an alternative universe of interpretation, one in which working-class people took refuge under the strain of misfortunes which would have been too bleak to contemplate in rationally objective …
Send for the Lucky White Mole
There is something to be said for the minor arts of display. While the megafauna of anthropology and social science lock horns on great vexed questions of the field, curators of the small and local
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