Early modern studies: Ebooks
BLOG HOME It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been doing a lot of travelling, there are other projects I’m working on, and suddenly I find it’s been months since I last posted. It’s not that I haven’t been working on the early modern period. Last summer, I was back in the University […]
Hamlet’s tragic flaw is not hesitation, “To be or not to be” is not about suicide – and it matters!!
There is quite a lively discussion about this topic currently taking place on LinkedIn. Please join in or comment below if you wish to add your voice to the debate! Different critics have talked about Hamlet’s tragic flaw in different ways, but what most of them boil down to is dithering. Coleridge talkesabout “the lingering […]
Early Modern Medicine: A new online resource
The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is starting a new series of digital material. The first video in the series, Vegetable Harmonies, a short video with the Illuminations by Gherardo Cybo (1512-1600) on Mattioli’s Discorsi sopra la Materia Medica di Dioscoride Pedacio (BL Ms Additional 22333) accompanied by Monteverdi’s […]
Titus Oates and the Popish Plot
Edited, with thanks to Dr. Jonathan Oates for comments and corrections. One of the ironies of English history is that the landmark 1689 Bill of Rights, with its prohibition of “cruel and unusual” punishment, was prompted, in part, by the ill-treatment of one of the great villains of the seventeenth century. In 1678, for want […]
Sadomasochism and Christianity
This is a post on a website entitled “Bad News about Christianity“. The name gives a fairly good indication of what it’s all about, and there’s certainly a lot of detailed information on the website, but unfortunately there is no indication of the identity of the author[s]. This seems to be intentional. Anyway, the post […]
International Society for Intellectual History
International Society for Intellectual History “The ISIH was created in 1994 to promote the study and teaching of intellectual history in all its forms and to foster communication and interaction among the global community of scholars in the field.” Among other projects, it is developing a database of twentieth-century authors whose work has shaped the […]
Subjectivity, Self-Narratives and the History of Emotions
The University of Sussex is calling for participants to a Master Class on the History of Emotions, January 16-18, 2017. Click here for details.
The history of emotions
There’s a good blog on the history of emotions here. It contains an interesting review of Javier Moscoso, Pain: A Cultural History, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a work which I had not previously come across.