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In Elizabethan and Stuart England, they weren't supposed to exist.

Protestant preachers and writers had banished them,

along with the idea of purgatory, but they had slunk back to earth,

and they kept coming people kept on seeing

them so how did our early modern forebears reckon with ghosts and their

heavenly counterpart angels.

I'm delighted to address this question with Peter Marshall,

Professor of History at Warwick University, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,

and a fellow of the British Academy.

He is the author of the prize-winning heretics and believers,

a history of the English Reformation,

and much important work besides that

that very clearly explains religious identities in Reformation England.

Check out his The Reformation, a very short introduction, for example.

He's also the author of several books on ghosts,

beliefs and the dead in Reformation England,

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