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Richard Raiswell
Born
1966 (age 57–58)
Middlesbrough, England
Occupation
Non-fiction writer
Academic work
Institutions
University of Prince Edward Island
Richard Raiswell (born January 1966) is an historian at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He teaches classes on medieval and Renaissance History, as well as the History of Ideas, specialising, in particular, on premodern geography and exploration, and the antecedents of the Scientific Revolution.
Raiswell was born in Middlesbrough, in the UK, immigrating to Canada in 1979. His education includes a B.A. in History from Carleton University (1992), with an M.A. in Medieval Studies (1995), and a Ph.D. in History both from the University of Toronto (2003).
His recent works include peer-reviewed articles on medieval geographical cognition, the sixteenth-century German Hebraist, Joannes Boemus, and several works on aspects of premodern European demon possession. He is the co-editor of two collections of academic essays. Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).
He is one of the founders of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies of the Preternatural (with Kirsten Uszkalo) and now serves as its book review editor. He has been the editor of the Ficino listserv, dedicated to the discussion of Renaissance European history, literature and culture since 1999, and was an adviser on the Witches in Early Modern England Project (2009–2011).
Raiswell is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio, with a regular column on provincial politics on CBC Prince Edward Island's Mainstreet, and occasional spots on Island Morning where he discusses aspects of premodern magic, demonology and the occult. He has also appeared in the Smithsonian Network's Treasures Decoded, in which he argued against the authenticity of the Vinland Map.
He is a cricket enthusiast, and has published a popular article on the history of cricket on Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century.
RichardRaiswell (born January 1966) is an historian at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Graduate...
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of the concession given in the bull is not explicit, but historian RichardRaiswell finds that it clearly refers to the recently discovered lands along...
Historical Studies on the Preternatural. Edited by Kirsten Uszkalo and RichardRaiswell, the journal is dedicated to publishing articles, reviews and short...
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Divided the World in Half, p. 73, Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 9780312616120 RichardRaiswell (1997), "Nicholas V, Papal Bulls of", in Junius Rodriquez (ed.) The...
Europe 1400–1536, Oxford University Press, 2002 ISBN 9780198208112 Raiswell, Richard. "Eugene IV, Papal bulls of". In Junius P. Rodriguez (ed.). The Historical...
1093/ref:odnb/25435. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Raiswell, Richard (2004). "Sherley, Sir Thomas (1564–1633/4)". Oxford Dictionary of...
Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with RichardRaiswell (University of Prince Edward Island). Dendle's The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia...
1093/ref:odnb/25435. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Raiswell, Richard (2004). "Sherley, Sir Thomas (1564–1633/4)". Oxford Dictionary of...
studies in scams, frauds, and deceits (1300–1650), Margaret Reeves, RichardRaiswell, Mark Crane, Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies...
daughters. García de Silva Figueroa Pennington 2004. Raiswell I 2004. Raiswell II 2004. Raiswell III 2004. "Shirley, Thomas" . Dictionary of National...
Crane, Raiswell & Reeves 2004, p. 288. Morvan 2009, p. table 2. Dunbabin 2011, p. xiii. de Lincy 1852, p. 53. Crane, Mark; Raiswell, Richard; Reeves...
Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300–1650), edd. Margaret Reeves, RichardRaiswell, Mark Crane (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies)...
Flase Testimony in the Case of Robert of Artois". In Crane, Mark; Raiswell, Richard; Reeves, Margaret (eds.). Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and...
Kamen 1997, p. 49. "Sixtus IV". Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 August 2023. Raiswell, p. 469; see also "Black Africans in Renaissance Europe", p. 281 Traboulay...
Jews", Volume 4, (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1894), 250. Raiswell, Richard. "Eugene IV, Papal bulls of", The Historical Encyclopedia of World...
1400-1536, Oxford University Press, 2002 ISBN 9780198208112[dead link] Raiswell, Richard. "Eugene IV, Papal bulls of", The Historical Encyclopedia of World...
Wadham, J. L.; De'ath, R.; Monteiro, F. M.; Tranter, M.; Ridgwell, A.; Raiswell, R.; Tulaczyk, S. (2013). "The potential role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet...
Retrieved 2020-12-04. Bellini, Federico (2018), Lancaster, James A.T.; Raiswell, Richard (eds.), "Diet and Hygiene Between Ethics and Medicine: Evidence and...
Traveller. Ipswich: Joshua Page; London: J. B. Nichols and Son. p. 169. Raiswell, Richard (2004). "Glemham, Edward (d. in or after 1594), privateer". Oxford...
(PDF) on 16 December 2008. Konhauser, Kurt O.; Hamade, Tristan; Raiswell, Rob; Morris, Richard C.; Grant Ferris, F.; Southam, Gordon; Canfield, Donald E. (2002)...
construction Archived 2018-08-02 at the Wayback Machine Briggs, D. E. G.; Raiswell, R.; Bottrell, S. H.; Hatfield, D.; Bartels, C. (1996-06-01). "Controls...
Modern Epistemologies of the Preternatural". In Brock, Michelle D.; Raiswell, Richard; Winter, David R. (eds.). Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early...
000130. Bibcode:2016EleSA...4.0130L. doi:10.12952/journal.elementa.000130. Raiswell, R. (2011). "Iron Transport from the Continents to the Open Ocean: The...
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