Early Modern Whale

I am gearing up to take a party of students off to ‘Renaissance Faces’ http://www...

I’ve been looking at verse materials published in commemoration of Sir Philip Sidne...

Alas, I have digressed today from reading Petrarchist poetry to seventeenth century smut,...

A day off today to see the Tour of Britain riders tackle Reading Cycling Club's hill climb course at Streatley Ian Stannard is the solo ...

Michael Drayton finished off the 1605 version of his sonnet sequence Idea with a set of dedicatory sonnets, ‘Certaine other...

“It signifies Marriage, open Enemies, Lawsuits, Controversies, Contracts, Warres, Bargaines, Fugitives, ...

Nicolas Culpeper made me think about early modern small domestic animals again. He is reflecting on the way repugnance for...

I have been trying to pull together a discussion of the various tracts and parodies prompted by William Lilly’s failed astrological p...

The holiday in America was rewarding and demanding. We (this means me and my son Timothy) drove 2,856 miles, in a Pontiac Grand Prix – a gr...

I am fluttering away from my keyboard for a holiday in and around the Rockies (thus squandering mo...

The morale of the harpooner at Early Modern Whale has been boosted by the blog here man...

I was attracted by this woodcut (quite unfamiliar to me) to read Heywood’s play to find ou...