Sunday, June 24, 2012

“After this they fell all to dancing the Hays, about three flower-pots”: welcoming the apocalypse in Berkshire, 1650.

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My text is a Thomason tract. Only ‘…ber’ for the month appears in his title page dating, it was perhaps September, certainly the 20 ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Executing all the enemies of a Utopian England: John Dunton's 'The Informer's Doom', 1683

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These curious woodcuts derive from and expand on the familiar woodcut frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins’ The Discovery of Witche...
Monday, June 04, 2012

"I pray you, remember the porter"

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My image comes from the church at Wing in Buckinghamshire. This church is famous for the Dormer tombs, which are indeed spectacular. Bu...
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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