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International Commonwealths: Public Diplomacy in 17th Century Europe
By Basil Bowdler (@BasilBowdler) When allegations of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and US general election of 2016 surfaced, it struck many as a new and disturbing development in public politics. But in reality, foreign powers have been attempting to manipulate public opinion to their own ends for much longer. In seventeenth-century Europe, as…
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17. Massialot’s Knowledge of December Cuisines
By Weiao Xing (@WeiaoX) Starting with pigeon bisque and casserole, filled with veal loin and ortolans, and embellished by apple fritters and crème brûlée, a wintry feast was prepared by chef de cuisine François Massialot on 27 December 1690. This lavish banquet, originally held at the Duke of Aumont’s palace, exemplifies ‘Another great Entertainment for the…
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Book Review – The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism, 1603-1660 by Jamie Gianoutsos
Megan Chance reviews Jamie Gianoutsos’ The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism, 1603-1630 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), £75. In The Rule of Manhood, Jamie Gianoutsos seeks to excavate the masculine norms of republicanism, arguably furthering Hanna Pitkin’s work on masculinity forty years earlier. [1] Her research sits alongside that of Anna Becker and…
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12. A Monument to the Great Fire of London
By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) If you have ever disembarked off the London Tube at Monument, you have probably walked past the memorial from which the station gets its name. This 202-foot (61 metres) high column was built to memorialise the 1666 Great Fire of London, which destroyed thousands of houses and numerous churches in central…
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Reflections on an Unstitched Coif
by Zara Kesterton, @ZaraKesterton Toni Bucky came across T.844–1974 in the Victoria and Albert Museum during her PhD research into blackwork embroidery. She was hunting for evidence of the geometric stitching, usually completed in black thread on linen, which became popular in England during the sixteenth century. In the V&A collections, Toni found an unstitched…
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