BibliOdyssey: Metoposcopia
The use of forehead wrinkles for character analysis: fabulous illustrations from a C17th manuscript.
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28 June 2008 – 1:01 pm
‘Going Dutch’ by Lisa Jardine
1 June 2008 – 9:55 am
Full, slightly overblown title: Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory. This is a book about the relationship between England and Holland in the C17th. It’s an interesting period, of course: the C17th was Holland’s ‘Golden Age’, when the country was not only a wealthy global power but at the intellectual and especially artistic forefront of Europe. For [...]
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26 May 2008 – 9:00 am
Cockle bread - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Found while looking for something else: 'Seventeenth century English women usually "got their man" by baking a 'cockle bread', a bread whose dough was kneaded and pressed against the woman's vulva and then baked.'
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‘The Century of Revolution’ by Christopher Hill
28 April 2008 – 11:53 am
The full title is The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714; i.e. the century in question is the longish C17th from the death of Queen Elizabeth to the death of Queen Anne. I guess most centuries are centuries of revolution somewhere, and in one way or another, but the C17th was the only time the English have had an actual [...]