The Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians, 17 October | Event in Cambridge | AllEvents

The Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians

The Museum of Cambridge

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Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

1 hour

2/3 Castle Street, CB3 0AQ Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm (BST)

2/3 Castle Street, CB3 0AQ Cambridge

2 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AH, United Kingdom

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The Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians
Join author Rachel Morris for a highly atmospheric exploration of the charismatic magicians of the Tudor and Renaissance courts and the wives and families who kept the whole magical show on the road.

All things were believable back then – wizards, alchemy, fairies, angels. This is the story of those magical times.

This event will offer a luminous deep dive into the lives of men from Dee to Kepler to Bruno, who were also scientists, astrologers, mathematicians and alchemists.

The remarkable ideas of these magical men still permeate modern culture, from Philip Pullman to C S Lewis. But what do we know of the rest of their households – the lovers, wives, mothers and daughters?

In The Years of the Wizard Rachel Morris also vividly reimagines the less documented lives of the magicians’ families and lovers whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men in their company.

Women supported the travelling households by packing up the libraries, feeding the assistants, entertaining the patrons and educating the children as well as archiving, documenting and collaborating on magical work. Without them, this astonishing era of discovery would have ground to an emphatic halt.


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The Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians, 17 October | Event in Cambridge | AllEvents
The Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm