John Duncalf was visited by thousands as he lay dying, until his demise in June 1677. Several tracts were published and ballads or songs composed about his fate, allowing us to reconstruct aspects of living and dying in seventeenth-century Staffordshire. His illness was seen as divine punishment for his theft of a bible, and so the talk will explain ideas in the Stuart period about a ‘bad’ or impenitent death, and the use of such cautionary tales to persuade Christians to live and die well.
A talk by Dr Ian Atherton with a chance to look at the Pushing up Dasies exhibition afterwards.
Tuesday 24 March, 6pm
Tickets £3
Book by telephone: 01785-278379
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