Early Modern Whale

Writing purported or speculative biographies of Adam had gone on since pre-Christian times. The Vita Adae et Evae...

‘An Elegy upon Dr. Chaderton, the first Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge being above an hundred years old when he died. Occasion...

My festive text is an anonymous late 17 th century book of carols A Cabinet of choice jewels, or, The Christians joy and gladness set fo...

This is the attractive wall monument in Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, to John St Barbe and his wife Grissell. (‘Griselda’, for here’s a 17 ...

After another term in which work made it impossible for me to add to my blog here, I finally return to ‘Early Modern Whale’. Here’s a wo...