Early Modern Whale
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Lady Margaret Savile's monument, Hurst.
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Back in September, because of one of those days where people cycle to raise money for charity round as many churches as they can, I was able...
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Early Modern Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Roger Crab, the Uxbridge hermit, 1655
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“Had my parents been so innocent as to have taught me this Doctrine in the time of my youth, I had saved my skull from being cloven to t...
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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...
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