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What’s in a name? Antwerp, it was said, derived from the words werpen and hand, meaning ‘throwing’ and ‘hand’. In this telling, a Roman soldier named Brabo cut off the hand of a giant, Druon Antigon, who stood on the banks of the Scheldt and...
In Augsburg’s Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister there is a three-paneled painting illustrating the life of St Paul, painted by local artist Hans Holbein the Elder in 1504. Commissioned for the city’s Dominican convent of St Katherine, it includes,...
By Samantha Wesner Between thick dungeon walls, a giant lies asleep. He’s chained to the ground, large limbs folded, enmeshed in a web of ropes, a blindfold over his closed eyes. Suddenly, as if touched by a flame, he awakes, and gazes around in...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Boston Weekly News-Letter (May 11, 1769) “Lately imported … before the Resolution of the Merchants for Non-Importation took Place.” Erasmus Williams’s advertisement...
By Diane Meyer Lowman (The Shakespeare Institute, UoB). I have loved Shakespeare for as long as I can remember. Some might say I’m obsessed. So when my boys grew and flew, and I needed to occupy myself and stave off the impending midlife crisis,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “ New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (May 9, 1768).Most of which are suitable for the North-river and Albany trade.” Although Erasmus William’s advertisement...
Brian Cummings Ars longa, vita brevis, as you hear every day in the tearoom at the Folger Shakespeare Library. This Christmas at the Folger I made a discovery which made me feel young: Erasmus’s favourite wine! The thought had been with me since...
By Kirk Essary, The University of Western Australia The arts had affective import for Erasmus on multiple levels. The emotions themselves are described by the Dutch humanist in categories derived from the ars rhetorica, and according to the genres of...
A while ago, I wrote a piece for The Conversation on ‘Guilty Pleasures: Reading Historical Fiction’. While the piece in itself was fun to write and allowed me to discuss favourite authors, such as C.J. Sansom, Sarah Dunant,...
Lectio International Conference 30th November - 3rd December 2016, University of Leuven, Belgium In the year 1516, two crucial texts for the cultural history of the West saw the light: Thomas More’s Utopia and Desiderius Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum....
History without palaeography is a story half told. Here is a small example from the first decades of the sixteenth century. It comes from my monograph on The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain which I am presently completing. I present to you,...
Desiderius Erasmus died on July 12, 1536--just a year and six days after his friend Thomas More--in Basel of dysentery. This blog describes their friendship, and this paper, provided by the Center for Thomas More Studies provides more analysis, especially...
After the dialogue of Book 1 of More’s Utopia, we come to the discourse of Book 2, in which Hythloday relates his impressions of Utopia. In this fifth post, Chloë Houston explores the opening of Book 2 and the way in which its depiction of...
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“Flora Attired by the Elements” appears in Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), The botanic garden, a poem. In two parts (London: J. Johnson, 1799). This scene inspires thoughts of idylls, until you notice the “earth element”...
Barometz; Or, How to Perpetuate Unknowingly a Hoax. The Tale of the Tartarian Lamb. Just keep repeating the story and attach a really awful engraving, and people will believe in the plant-animal of Tartary for hundreds of years (more than 1800 years?): “Barometz...
In the TV miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell face off again, just as they do across the fireplace at the Frick. Now that the words of a book are images on the screen, Mantel's mischaracterization of Thomas...
Well turned out, you say?Francis I of France, c. 1520-5"Naturally good or bad taste does exist. Things which are useless to the function of an article of dress, for example, are in bad taste... It was once held to be somewhat effeminate not to wear...
The Prince of Humanists *cough*Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of DesideriusErasmus of Rotterdam (1523)"Some teach that boys should keep in the gas of their bellies by compressing their buttocks. But it is not civil to become ill while you are...
William Ralph Inge was Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral from 1911 to 1934 (thus a successor of John Colet, John Feckenham, and John Donne, among many others) and a prolific author. He was called the "Gloomy Dean" because of the rather pessimistic attitude...
A series of papers and discussions to mark the centenary of his birth (on 15 January) and to appraise aspects of his thought and writing. The occasion is arranged by the Dacre Trust and will be held onSaturday 11th January 2014 at Corpus Christi College,...
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