Early Modern Whale
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Adam, Eve, and the young female artist
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I was asking my students to point out for me, or find for me if they could, depictions of Adam and Eve by women artists prior to the nin...
Monday, September 23, 2013
'My worst of fates attends me in my grave': joining Lord Rochester at Spelsbury
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An interesting weekend for me: on Saturday, I was one of the group of old members of the college had taken up the invitation to return to Je...
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Old Nick and Young Nick in Paradise: Nicholas Billingsley’s 'The Infancy of the World' (1658)
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Nicholas Billingsley began working on his The Infancy of the World (1658) when he was only fifteen. It had probably been set asi...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
'Eutopia nothing to it yields': Thomas Peyton on Paradise and the Fall, 1620
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The youthful and pious Thomas Peyton published two books of his intended verse paraphrase of Genesis, The G...
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