A Tudor Christmas Carol
As I outrode this enderes night.
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
[The better known 'Coventry Carol', "lully lulla, thou little tiny child" comes from the same source.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo
“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
Last week, the Prize Papers team met in Berlin for the Academies' Day, a major collective event of the eight Academies of Sciences united in the Akademienunion. During the event, the academies showcased their research work & invited the public to engage in meaningful dialogue
Thomas Campion - Now Winter Nights Enlarge: an evocative description of Winter pastimes in #earlymodern England
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o’erflow with wine,
Let well-turned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep’s leaden spells remove.
This time doth well dispense
With lovers’ long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well;
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.
🇬🇧 "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."
But do and will AI text generators stop using old texts, let's say digitized #earlymodern print editions, when these prints still feature the contemporary copyright right advise on the title pages?
Like here: "nicht nach zu drucken" (do not to re-print!).
1 November is All Saints' Day, so here's our lockdown recording of Psalm 133 from La Scala Santa, 1670, described as being suitable for St George's Day or All Saints' Day.
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: viols
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