Early Modern Whale
Sunday, August 05, 2012
“I have a light within that directs me to renounce my husband”: the unnatural practices of Elizabeth Pigeon.
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Lawrence Stone territory this posting, with A brief relation of the strange and unnatural practices of Wessel Goodwin, Meheta...
Monday, July 16, 2012
The (very slow) downfall of the upstart chymist
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These are the rather surprisingly good woodcuts for The devil upon Dun: or The downfall of the upstart chymist: being the s...
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...
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