Dr Ariel Hessayon is primarily an early modern historian, although he occasionally ranges outside that chronological boundary. He has written extensively on a variety of topics including antiscripturism, anti-Trinitarianism, anticlericalism, ball games, book burning, communism, environmentalism, esotericism, extra-canonical texts, heresy, crypto-Jews, Judaizing, millenarianism, monstrous births, mysticism, prophecy and religious radicalism.
He blogs at https://arielhessayon.substack.com/

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

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