tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post4162683863882344534..comments2023-09-07T18:57:41.344+01:00Comments on Early Modern Whale: Over ingenious Palingenius: John Jackson, 1611DrRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-50565089952451362612012-05-28T16:22:19.262+01:002012-05-28T16:22:19.262+01:00Searching for Palingenius led me here and he featu...Searching for Palingenius led me here and he featured briefly on a <a href="http://lightningoak.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/epicurusquib/#comment-404" rel="nofollow">post on my blog</a> just now. <br /><br />I'd love to get a full translation of him; I like his style...Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10172073587383859800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-48261038858704294522011-09-07T23:27:04.659+01:002011-09-07T23:27:04.659+01:00Oh, actually it looks like the translation Jackson...Oh, actually it looks like the translation Jackson prints of selections from Palingenius's "Capricorn" (as well as from "Libra"?) is in fact Barnabe Googe's. In Early English Books Online you can see that the lines are copied verbatim from document images 296/7 to 299 of the 1565 publication of The Zodiake of Life. Thence Jackson takes passages from Libra, which I assume are also copied from Googe's translation, although I didn't check.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269138767365801540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-73476017930497346592011-09-07T22:34:23.204+01:002011-09-07T22:34:23.204+01:00Yes--we can extend Walter Stephens' argument. ...Yes--we can extend Walter Stephens' argument. He focuses on the earlier continental treatises in Latin, but the same motivation can be seen behind 16th and especially 17th century witchcraft treatises in English. Often prefaces and introductions celebrate the theological utility of proofs of witches and apparitions, but I don't think this was merely window dressing for the censors. AND, yes indeed, English treatises defending the immortality of the soul DO often include the argument from the existence of ghosts and witches, an appealingly empirical sort of material proof during that rising era of science.<br /><br />In my doctoral dissertation (Out of Darkness, Light: The Theological Implications of (Dis)Belief in Witchcraft in Early Modern English Texts and Society) I labored--rather heavily, with too many embedded footnote essays and so on--to document the argument working from witchcraft treatises, anti-atheism treatises, as well as some plays and poems. I was well into my research when Stephens' book came out, which matched my own conclusions closely, although he was working from a different set of texts and in an earlier period.<br /><br />Fun to see your interest in the subject, and that you are onto the same sorts of themes and readings. Thanks!<br /><br />TomWehtje@gmail.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269138767365801540noreply@blogger.com