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henry VIII: not a good year of the woman
Henry VIII, along with almost every male in the sixteenth-century, regarded women a being “weak, frail, impatient, feeble, and foolish” and “void of the spirit of council of regimen.” He was consequently pleased by his wife’s actual remarks, and announced … Continue reading
henry VIII: spare the rod
Ever since Henry VIII’s death, at the age of fifty-seven, people have asked how a once splendid monarch could come to such a pass. Some historians have suggested that during the last years of the reign he was slowly sinking … Continue reading
a dying monarch
Death of Henry VIII… Age had dug deep trenches upon a face once as pink and delicate as a young bride’s; the soft beard of red and gold had given way to coarse white; the sturdy muscular belly was now … Continue reading
forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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utopia: naturally good but prone to mischief
Today, Thomas More’s Utopia, written in 1516, is interpreted as a reflection on the ideal state with More a representative of a humanistic and expansive outlook that embodied the Renaissance intellectual milieu. This may be a mistaken assumption; with More … Continue reading
black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny
Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, Wat Tyler Uprising
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those a-ha! moments: fetish for the pathologically creative
There is an element of intentional controversy. He just happened to have a infant’s skull tucked away in the corner of the workshop and bingo! he found the right context to use it. It was one of those a-ha moments, … Continue reading
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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS
Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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