“The effect of the piece, read all at once, is exhilarating. It’s quite like reading a book of interviews with V. S. Naipaul. Three quarters of the world’s literature is dismissed with mandarin contempt, and yet the unmistakable love of good writing is everywhere on display.”
Anthony Madrid on the rigmarole William Drummond of Hawthornden produced, of Ben Jonson’s conversations
Monday 27 Nov, University of Sussex, & online. Free
This masterclass invites scholars of pan-#British seventeenth-century #literature to a day full of workshop & round-table discussion on the skills & knowledge needed to approach texts in the #Scottish#17thcentury corpus
🇬🇧 "This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protectoral Parliament in 1656."
🇬🇧 "This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protectoral Parliament in 1656."
In #earlymodern London, 29 October (the day after the feast of Saints Simon and Jude) was the day of the Lord Mayor's Triumph.
Late as I walked through Cheapside, an early #17thCentury ballad from Ms Drexel 4257 describes the sights and sounds of the day.
Details include the Lord Mayor's procession through the streets of London, accompanied by civic dignitaries, liverymen, whifflers, and more; horses, wild men and noisy fireworks; and pageants with boy and girl actors.
From the Gamble Commonplace Book, Ms Drexel 4257
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin
Nicholas Breton: Four of the Clocke - a detailed description of life through the day in #earlymodern England From Fantasticks, 1626
Read by Peter Kenny
One day late for International Coffee Day...
The Coffee House or Newsmongers Hall
A broadside ballad from 1672 describing events at a London coffee house.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: theorbo
Alison Kinder: bass viol, recorders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD51drQLQRQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo
Sung before the King at New-market:
A 17th Century broadside ballad by Thomas D'Urfey, describing the sights and sounds of Newmarket during the racing season.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: baroque guitar
Alison Kinder: bass viol
🇳🇱 "His work ranged over a wide array of topics, though he is best known to philosophers today for his contributions to the natural law theories of normativity which emerged in the later medieval and early modern periods."