Posted in books, civil war, england, historiography, london, seventeenth century, tagged birkbeck, conference on 17 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had a paper accepted for the Birkbeck Early Modern Society conference in July. The full programme can be found here. My paper will be on the pamphlet war that took place between John Taylor and Henry Walker in the summer of 1641. This dispute is quite a celebrated one, not least because of the [...]
Posted in art, books, germany, sixteenth century, tagged ditzinger, early modern, engraving, history, neyffer, tubingen, university, wurttemberg on 15 June 2008 | No Comments »
Thinking of applying to university? Then come to the Duke of Württemberg’s new college at Tübingen, where you can play tennis, fight with swords, and all sorts of other gentlemanly pursuits…
The engravings above are taken from a book by Johann Christoph Neyffer about university life in Germany in the late sixteenth century, and were executed [...]
Posted in books, england, seventeenth century, tagged 1678, cereologists, crop circle, crop circles, devil, e.p. thompson, history, moral economy, mowing-devil, pamphlet, popular politics, popular religion, seventeenth century on 7 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Mowing-Devil is a quarto pamphlet printed in 1678.1 It tells the story of a farmer whose field of oats was destroyed by the devil, after the farmer rejected the price asked by a mower and said that the devil could mow it instead.
The pamphlet is often prayed in aid by crop circle enthusiasts as [...]
Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, historiography, ireland, scotland, seventeenth century, tagged 1640s, 1650s, books, civil war, england, historiography, history, ireland, oliver cromwell, scotland on 5 June 2008 | No Comments »
Skimming through the Palgrave catalogue, I’ve noticed a couple of books that will be out in December that may be of interest.
The first is a collection edited by John Adamson on the English civil wars. The contributors and essays are:
- Introduction - High Roads and Blind Alleys: The English Civil war and its Historiography: John [...]
Posted in books, britain, digital history, england, london, seventeenth century, tagged dispute, early modern, geography, google earth, google maps, london, maps, plotting, spatial on 18 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently been trying to map the geography of a pamphlet dispute: where were the authors based, where were their publishers based, where were their books sold? This can restore an often missing dimension - the physical space in which books were written, published and read. In this case, in doing so I’ve been able [...]
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