Tag Archives: Oliver Cromwell

meeting of the minds….

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Dave

“Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could,and soon set about immortalizing the tour… At Auchinleck, Dr. Johnson, a vehement Tory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Collings, Thomas Osborne, Thomas Rowlandson | Leave a comment

intense: saint columba & literary larceny

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dave

Every night he would sneak off in the dark to indulge his secret lust- his lust for copying a rare manuscript of the Gospels…. Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is a reality, as radiant, sometimes as … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Columba Ireland, Columkill, Englishman Strongbow, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Loch Ness Monster, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Cromwell, Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Columba, Saint Patrick's Day | Leave a comment

clausewitz: “its absolute form”

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Dave

In Clausewitz’s view, it is absurd to try to “win” wars by military means alone, because, as he says, no major plan of war can bemade without political understanding and insight. The political setting not only determines the aims and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alvin Toffler, Benny Gantz IDF, Carl von Clausewitz, Clausewitz On War, David Crist The Twilight War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frederick the Great, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, martin van creveld, Oliver Cromwell, president eisenhower, rachel corrie, steven metz, The Marshall Plan | Leave a comment

falcons: separating the emperor from the kings

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Dave

Thirteenth-century monarchs were not expected to be accomplished writers, much less scientists, so it is fairly extraordinary that Frederick the Great himself wrote the book that is regarded as the first work of modern zoology: Of the Art of Hunting … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged beniamino inserra, carlo trabia, casey a. wood, Eugene Delacroix, eugene fromentin, f. marjorie fyfe, falconry, frederick II, Frederick the Great, h.t. ryall engraver, james howe art, malcolm fleming esq., michael scott astrologer, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Edwin Landseer, W.B. Yeats | Leave a comment

BRIEF FLOOD in BABYLON: Raft on the Jordan River

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dave

Philo-Semitism. Convinced that Armageddon was at hand, the God-fearing Christians of the seventeenth-century turned to embrace the persecuted Jews- until the dream of the millennium had faded…. Protestant philo-Semitism was a by-product of Protestant millenarism , and Protestant millenarism received … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abraham von Frankenberg, Amos Oz, Antonio Viera, Baruch Spinoza, Conversion of the Jews, Daniel Greenfield, David Key, Fifth Monarchists, Hartmann Schedel, Hugh Peter, J.H. Alstedt, John Rogers Fifth Monarchist, John Winthrop, Joseph Mede, Marc Chagall, Mennasseh ben Israel, Oliver Cromwell, P. Van Somer, Paul Felgenhauer, Rembrandt | Leave a comment

STRANGER THAN FICTION: Solomon on the River Thames

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Dave

Of Humber would complain, I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. ( Andrew Marvel , 1650 ) Convinced that Armageddon was at hand, the God-fearing … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Marvel, Baruch Spinoza, Caravaggio, Conversion of the Jews, Flavius Josephus, Germaine Greer, History of Jews England, Howard Jacobson, Johann Heinrich Alstedt, John Amos Comenius, Mennasseh ben Israel, Messianic Movement, Oliver Cromwell, Paul Felgenhauer, Philip Roth, Rembrandt, Samuel Hartlib, Thomas Brightman, Tom Lehrer, Werner Sombart | Leave a comment

HOW TO STEAL SCEPTER & ORB: THANK OFFERINGS OF THE CURIOUS

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Dave

Here lies the man who boldly hath run through More villainles than England ever knew; And ne’er to any friend he had was true. Here let him then by all unpitied lie, And let’s rejoice his time was come to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alan Marshall, Andrew Graham Dixon, Andrew Marvell, Ann Lauren, Charles II of England, Colonel Blood, Crown Jewels of England, David hayton, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Ormonde, Eveline Cruickshanks, George Villiers, James Bond, John Evelyn, Oliver Cromwell, Restoration of Charles II, Robert Walker, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Sir Peter Lely, Talbot Edwards, Thomas Blood, Tom Slemen, Tower of London, W.P. Liscomb, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, William Bray | Leave a comment

BEFORE THE AXE FALLS

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dave

Just raise your hand to signal when you’re ready.The death warrant of King Charles I required that he be put to death by the severing of his head from his body between the hours of ten in the morning and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Charles I Execution, Gonzales Coques, Hippolyte Paul Delaroche, King Charles I England, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Cromwell, Paul Delaroche, Peter Paul Rubens, Thomas Fairfax | Leave a comment

NOT EVEN A KING'S RANSOM

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Dave

”In January 1649, Parliament (the House of Commons had been previously purged by Colonel Pride of some 150 members in December 1648, leaving a small rump of some 80 members totally dependent upon Army leaders) established a High Court of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Charles I England, Colonel Axtell, Delaroche painting Charles I, John Bradshaw, John Cook, John Downes, King Charles I England, Lady Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Thomas Waite, Van Dyck | 3 Comments

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Dave

Charles I was the first English monarch to be put on trial for treason and it led to his execution. This event is one of the most controversial in English history. No law could be found in all England’s history … Continue reading →