by CCash | Oct 14, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Peasants Making Merry outside a Tavern ‘The Swan’ by Pieter Brughel the Younger, 1630 | Public Domain | Source 16th century, Peasants Feasting in an Interior, or Peasants Dancing in a Tavern, by Martin van Cleve, (1527–1577/1581) | Public Domain | Source...
by CCash | Oct 7, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Shakespeare’s background in acting, and education in rhetoric, were foundational to his ability to distinguish himself as a writer, despite borrowing heavily from his contemporaries. Imitation, parody and translation … were bedrocks of education. Against this...
by CCash | Sep 30, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The Old World beaver (Castor fiber) engaged in felling a tree, as shown in one of the earliest printed works on natural history, the 15th century Ortus Sanilatis of J. von Cuba Novi Belgii” (1656), together with the fox, marten, bear, deer, wild turkey, heron,...
by CCash | Sep 23, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Wampum beads made by Elizabeth James Perry (Wampanoag/Eastern Cherokee), purple are quahog and white are whelk | phot by Mary Meredith | Public Domain | Source Detail of a black Indian girdle “made of wampum peek, the best sort, 1656”. Dark and white...
by CCash | Sep 19, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Portrait of Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard (called) (1547 – 1619) | painted somewhere between 1573 and 1575 | Currently at the Walker Art Gallery, WAG 2994 | Public Domain | Source When Elizabeth was dying, she was severely emaciated and Suzie writes that...
by CCash | Sep 17, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
And here’s a pot of good double beer, neighbour: drink, and fear not your man. Third Neighbor Henry VI Part 2 (III.2) The Brewer, designed and engraved in the Sixteenth Century, by Jost Amman. | Public Domain | Source Beer Making Ingredients Beer was made...
