Early Modern Whale

Thomas Webbe, Parson and Ranter, is fairly well known, with his own brief ODNB entry and having featured in ...

As a spin-off from preparing a lecture on Lucrece , I found myself looking at Thoma...

After a frustrating few weeks with, initially, a failing broadband connection, and t...

I am swapping my ISP at the moment, and my access to Blogger here has been patchy....

The following rather spectacular anecdote of ball lightning occurs in An apology, or, Defence of the div...

I was reading Sir John Melton’s Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster (1620) – a very ...

My anecdote for the week comes from a newsletter, Thomas White’s Mercurius Heraclitus, or, The wee...

I have been away on holiday, to Cyprus, an isla...

‘Under part of this monument lyeth the body of Sir John Davis K who received ye hon. of Knigh...

One of the great deaths in Jacobean drama is that of Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois: impelle...