REED This! In the latest instalment of the Cambridgeshire blog series, John A. Geck discusses one of the collection's more unusual records -- an instance of cat immolation  --  and considers possible motives for the event. Read more about it here:

https://reedproject.blog/2022/10/21/a-great-prophanacion-made-both-of-day-place-animal-cruelty-as-performance/

John A. Geck is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. His research focuses on transmissions of high and low culture in later medieval and early modern England, including romance, hagiography, and drama. He is the editor of REED Cambridgeshire.