Sunday, May 20, 2012

'Stranger things in the world, than are to be seen between London and Staines': in America with John Josselyn

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Page from 'New England's Rarities' showing the "beautiful leaved pirola" I recently had to mark some student p...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Notre Dame, Paris, 1625 - a devout special effect goes wrong

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“The King of Canadaes Son, by meanes of the intercourse of traffique between the French and that Savage Nation, having, at...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Swimming again!

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A long pause for me from 'Early Modern Whale'. Over this last year, my right eye has been sore, preventing me from reading at nigh...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Stroked by Valentine: shamanistic healing in London, 1666

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Valentine Greatrakes was born on St Valentine’s Day, 1629 (and hence his name). He was Irish, a Protestant, served as a lieutenant in the ...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012

The compassionate madness of the Reverend Granger

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Outside my ‘early modern’ beat for this one, partly because my research isn’t pointing me at EEBO quite so often these days. Instead,...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

'With the sudors of thy industry shalt thou spend thy days'. Loredano's 'Life of Adam', 1659.

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Writing purported or speculative biographies of Adam had gone on since pre-Christian times. The Vita Adae et Evae...
Thursday, January 05, 2012

An elegy on a 17th century centenarian

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