Early Modern Whale

I am faintly surprised to have the privilege of giving a lecture on book IV of Milton ’s Paradise Lost . (I half expect a distinguished ...

It’s a long time since I did a witchcraft post, and I haven’t been doing much haunting of the databases. Richard Bernard’s A guide to grand...

I t hough t I’d put t oge t her a quick pos t for Valen t ine’s Day, and was scanning Valen t ine poems in LION . Henry Bold’s ‘ To his Mi...

I have a one-off lec t ure t o give on Gulliver’s Travels , wi t h a focus on Lillipu t . Seeing t he familiar map loca t ing Lillipu ...

A lecture to give on A Chaste Maid in Cheapside has led me on to have a closer look at the various pamphlets about the Eleanor Cross in Che...

I find myself with a lecture to refresh on Women beware Women . The famous chess-playing scene, II ii, led me into a scamper round EE...

I am a little under siege with work, but return to my post at this weblog with this strangely tentative and incredulous early picture of...