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Tag Archives: Books
1188: Two Islands
There is a lake in the north of Munster which contains two islands, one rather large and the other rather small. The larger has a church venerated from the earliest times. The smaller has a chapel cared for most devotedly … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Ireland, Books, Birds, Gender, Oddities, 12th Century, Geography, Maps, Death, Wales, Life, Gerald of Wales
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100 AD: Leucippus
Galatea, daughter of Eurytius, who was son of Sparton, married at Phaestus in Crete Pandion’s son, Lamprus, a man of good family but without means. When Galatea became pregnant, Lamprus prayed to have a son and said plainly to his … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, 5th Century BC, Antoninus Liberalis, Books, Children, Greece, LGBT, Mythology, Rome, Sculpture
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340: Patron Saint of Beekeepers
According to tradition, a swarm of bees settled on the face of the infant St. Ambrose, leaving a drop of honey and thus foretelling the saint’s eloquence—his honeyed tongue. He is the patron saint of bees and beekeepers. A certain … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 4th Century, Ambrose, Animals, Art, Bees, Books, Charles Butler, Christianity, France, Insects, Italy, Jacques I Laudin, Painting, Portraits, Religion, Saints
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1912: Many-Headed
Demons associated with astrological signs—from a Persian manuscript on magic and astrology, 1912.
1863: Dictionary of Hell
Entries from the 1863 edition of Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal: Amduscias: Grand-duc aux enfers. Il a la forme d’une licorne; mais lors-qu’il est évoqué, il se montre sous une figure humaine. Il donne des concerts, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Books, Demons, Dictionaries, Drawing, France, Hell, Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, Louis Breton, M. Jarrault, Printmaking
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2006: A Little White Shadow
Pages from Mary Ruefle’s book A Little White Shadow, which was composed by whiting out text from Emily Malbone Morgan‘s 1890 book of the same name. …seven centuries of…sobbing…gathered…in the…twilight…and…had their…pages…wandered…through the…dead…borrow so little from…the past…as if they were alive
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Emily Malbone Morgan, Mary Ruefle, Poetry, USA, Women, Writing
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1617: Atalanta Fugiens
Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens is an alchemical “emblem book” consisting of 50 illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by a epigrammatic verse, a philosophical discourse, and a musical fugue. This first emblem shows Boreas, the North Wind, … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Alchemy, Books, Germany, Matthias Merian, Michael Maier, Printmaking
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