Early Modern Whale

I return to George Garden’s  An apology for M. Antonia Bourignon in four parts,  published in London in 1699. https://en.wikipedia....

These are fairly full excerpts from the little pamphlet, A blazing starre seen in the west at Totneis in Devonshire , on the fouret...

About time this blog had a musical interlude, and heavens knows I need one. So, if you click this link, you get, off a very old recording o...

I was reading Paradise Lost , when it struck me that Milton is far friendlier to the Book of Tobit than he ought to be as a Protestant (see...