Posted in books, britain, england, france, london, review, seventeenth century, tagged early modern, seventeenth century, books, england, review, theodore de mayerne, doctor, medicine, james i, charles i, switzerland, huguenot, reformation, protestant, france, trevor-roper, hugh trevor-roper on 24 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
Europe’s Physician: the various life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006
Here is a long overdue review of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s biography of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. I originally read this book over Christmas in a vain attempt to delay the process of essay writing, but it’s taken me [...]
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Posted in books, france on 4 January 2008 | No Comments »
A wonderful post over at Metafilter about Simon Vostre and the Books of Hours he published.
Vostre (fl. 1486-151 was a Parisian printer based in the rue Neuve Notre Dame. This was a “new street” leading to the cathedral and was the centre of the Parisian book trade in much the same way that the [...]
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Posted in england, france on 20 December 2007 | No Comments »
Over the last few weeks, one of my many distractions from getting any real work done has been coming across a mid-seventeenth century French recipe book on Early English Books Online.
Le cuisinier françois, by François Pierre La Varenne, was first published in 1651 in France, then translated into English in 1653 as The French Cook. [...]
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Via b3ta I have found the best ever concept for a historically-themed computer game: France France Revolution.
(One of those jokes that probably won’t make much sense unless you know what the original game is).
Meanwhile I have been looking at a slightly earlier period in French history - the reign of Louis XIV - and have [...]
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