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 […]
Tidbit: Laud eating Prynne’s ears!
Archbishop #Laud supposedly dining on ears of Wllm Prynne! “Canterbury, his change of diot”1641 (Bod) #EarlyModern pic.twitter.com/BOe7FRu35t — Maia Newley (@MettaFilms) June 12, 2015 Under inverkan av specifikt fosfodiesteras typ 5 genomgår cGMP hydrolys, vilket leder till att erektionen upphör. Detta är användningsområdet för SC. Som svar på sexuell stimulering köpa levitra på nätet hämmar […]
Remember, remember…
Harald Braun on the real victims of the gunpowder Plot – the vast majority of law-abiding English Catholics. Is there a lesson in this for modern times? Too right there is! And here’s a little something from my early modern bookshelf: Happy Guy Fawkes Night, everyone!
Surgical Implements
A couple of weeks ago I posted in answer to a question on Quora about whether there was such a thing as necessary suffering. I began by saying that in an age before anaesthetics this question could hardly even have been asked. I then went on, in my wonted fashion, to discuss the issue in […]
Disturbingly erotic…or not?
I posted this a few months ago, but I’m having some trouble with spambots on a few of my posts, so I’m republishing with a slightly different permalink to see if that resolves the problem. Apologies to those who’ve already seen it! An art historian is claiming that Dürer’s work is deeply erotic, in […]
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #9: Armadillos in Unlikely Places
Edward Topsell, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (London, 1607), says ‘0f the Tatvs, or Gvinean Beast’ that ‘The Merchants as I haue herd and Cittizens of London keepe of these with their garden wormes’, and in the following entry, ‘Of the Aiochtoctch’, ‘There are of these as I haue heard to be seen in Gardens […]
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #8: November 5th at Blackfriars, 1623
There’s some interesting detail on Victoria Buckley’s blog about the calamitous events of November 5th, 1623, when nearly a hundred Catholics were killed after the floor gave way in a garret where between two and three hundred had assembled to hear a sermon: Crowds quickly assembled, many to assist in the rescue of survivors, others […]
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #7: A broomstick’s-eye view of London
This is wonderful!
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #6: The Colour of Carrots
In the seventeenth century most carrots were coloured purple!
Medieval sex
The History Blog has an amusing flow chart on medieval sex.