Manchester Metropolitan University puts a TRIGGER warning on religious medieval text because of 'graphic' and 'upsetting' content

 Manchester Metropolitan University puts a TRIGGER warning on religious medieval text because of 'graphic' and 'upsetting' content

• Manchester Metropolitan University staff decided to flag the 'graphic content' 
• Trigger warning has been added to translation of Miracles of Hand of St James 
• 'Warning. Some of the miracles can be pretty graphic and may be off-putting'  

University professors have applied trigger warnings to an 800-year-old religious text because the miracles described could be 'graphic'. 

History students at Manchester Metropolitan University will now be alerted to the potentially graphic content in a translation of the Miracles of the Hand of St James - a medieval text that describes the alleged miracles attributed to the mummified hand of St James. 

Students set to study the historical text are first told: 'Warning. Some of the miracles can be pretty graphic and may be off-putting to some.' 

Staff also flagged 'outdated' language in the 1970s translation from Latin by Professor Brian Kemp which is 'now considered offensive', according to the warning note seen by The Telegraph.

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