From Monday, January 21 to Saturday, February 16
Fellow Bloggers, there is no need to fear,
For weeks (forsooth) I have toil’d at my desk;
Scouring all things early modern in the Blogosphere,
To bring you this edition of Carnivalesque.
Nemo me impune laceffit.
The man in the moon
Christopher Thompson writes on William Gilbert, rector of Orsett prior to [...]
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Posted in Other periods, tagged carnivalesque on 6 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
In just over a week I’ll be hosting the next edition of Carnivalesque, the early modern blog carnival. This is just a reminder to get your submissions in.
Whether it’s a post by another blogger you really liked, an interesting website related to the period that you’ve come across, or one of your own posts that [...]
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Posted in Other periods, books, britain, civil war, england, london, seventeenth century, tagged early modern, pamphlet, john taylor, seventeenth century, civil wars, book, cheapside, cross, london, england, puritan, iconoclasm on 2 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s an interesting post from Roy Booth over at Early Modern Whale, about the vandalism of Cheapside cross during the early 1640s before its eventual pulling down in 1643. Roy’s image of the cross prompted me to go to EEBO to have a look for other images, which threw up a couple of interesting things.
First, [...]
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I’m hosting the next edition of Carnivalesque, covering the early modern period, in mid-February. Any suggestions for interesting posts to include would be welcome - either e-mail me or use the submission form. Thanks in advance! I’ll be posting a couple of reminders nearer the time so do bear this in mind if you find [...]
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Posted in Other periods on 8 January 2008 | No Comments »
The 2007 history blog awards are now up. My particular favorite was Errol Morris’s series of posts on two photographs of the Crimean War - one with the cannon balls on the road, one with them in the ditch - and his quest to find out more about them.
But there were no early modern blogs [...]
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