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manliness: battles of epping forest

Long hair, tight pants, and other masculine things, then as now, some things don’t change… …But, you might argue, the Renaissance was a time of violent change, one of those exceptional epochs when an old morality was breaking down and … Continue reading

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for, sooth to say,…it was no sort of life

He was one of the “new men” who rose and fell by their wits; Spencer’s work and life a reflection of the splendors and miseries of his time. “The Elizabethan conception of world-order was in its outlines medieval although it … Continue reading

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