Saturday, April 13, 2013

‘Their eyes were holden that they should not know him': J H Glaser's anamorphic Fall, 1638

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This is Johann Heinrich Glaser’s anamorphic composition, ‘The Fall’, 1638, dedicated to the Rector of Basle University, a man called...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

At Pendle Hill

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After talking about The Late Lancashire Witches for years, I finally got up to Pendle Forest to try to get a sense of the area. It ha...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

God shakes his fist at Berkshire: the 1628 'Hatford' meteorite

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I was talking this last week to some of my students about Donne and terror, and this led me (via fear of God, plague, and pro...
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Saturday, March 02, 2013

Espadrilles of gannet-neck: St Kilda in the late 17th century

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I’ve generally enjoyed the novels of Jim Crace, and was pleased to see from Adam Mars-Jones’ review in the LRB that another is ou...
Monday, February 11, 2013

“The Devil came to me once, I think, like a Lyon”: the Bideford witches of 1680-2

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Sources under discussion I return to an old project for this blog: to write something about as many witchcraft-related pamphlets ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Data mining for witches with Ngrams

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So, the blog got neglected. I have been too busy at work, and following my vitrectomy at the end of last February, I slowly developed a de...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Zachary the slacker

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Zachary Bogan, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was a consumptive (he lived to be just 34), and seems to have been subject to depre...
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