by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Giordano Bruno was executed in 1600 after being investigated for opinions against the Catholic Church in Italy He was an regarded as an atheist. Eighteenth-century engraving of Bruno originally published N.H. Gundling, Neue Bibliothec, oder Nachricht und Urtheile von...
by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Then your hose should be ungarter’d, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbutton’d, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation. – As You Like It (III.2) A collection of butotns made from iron, lead, leather,...
by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ~ Taming of the Shrew (I.1) Woodcut from Record’s Arithemetic/The Ground of Arts, by Robert Record in 1543 | The book was written as a dialogue between a teacher and a student,...
by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
This is the ballad called “Little Mousegrove,” It was adapted later in the 19th century and became a popular folk song in Early America. | “The earliest known reference to this famous song occurs in Francis Beaumont’s play, The knight of the...
by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
let my horses be well looked to, without any tricks. – Lafeu, Alls Well That Ends Well (IV.5) An engraving of Morocco (aka Marocco) entitled Maroccus Extaticus, appearing in Collectanea Anglo-poetica by Thomas Corser. | Public Domain | Source...
by CCash | Dec 9, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Ingredients for Mead On a basic level, Mead is honey and water that’s allowed to sit and ferment. However, like most things, mead can be extrapolated from there to include a variety of elements that make distinct sub-categories like metheglin, hydromel, and...
