New York Times: Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife (Jennifer Schuessler on Vanessa Braganza) July 7, 2022Using a process she called “early modern Wordle,” a scholar claims to have uncovered a hidden message from Catherine of Aragon in a book of jewelry designs.
Stephen Greenblatt: What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague (The New Yorker) May 7, 2020 Excerpt: "Shakespeare lived his entire life in the shadow of bubonic plague.... Read more about Stephen Greenblatt: What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague (The New Yorker)
Hannah Marcus: Galileo’s Lessons for Living and Working through a Plague April 30, 2020 An outbreak in Italy in the 1630s forced him to find new ways of doing his research and connecting with his family... Read more about Hannah Marcus: Galileo’s Lessons for Living and Working through a Plague
Anna Burgess (Harvard Library Communications): History at your fingertips: Harvard Library seeks volunteers to help transcribe 18th-century handwritten materials from its North America Collection April 23, 2020 We can’t rewrite history, but re-typing it? That’s a different story — and it’s a story Harvard Library wants to tell with users’ help.... Read more about Anna Burgess (Harvard Library Communications): History at your fingertips: Harvard Library seeks volunteers to help transcribe 18th-century handwritten materials from its North America Collection
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg: "Is It Permitted to Flee the City? The coronavirus creates an unsettling tunnel in time between 21st-century New York and the world of 16th-century rabbis," TABLET April 20, 2020 "The longer the current COVID-19 ordeal unfolds, the more the word “unprecedented” is repeated.... Read more about Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg: "Is It Permitted to Flee the City? The coronavirus creates an unsettling tunnel in time between 21st-century New York and the world of 16th-century rabbis," TABLET
James Hankins on Social Distancing during the Black Death March 28, 2020 ... Read more about James Hankins on Social Distancing during the Black Death
Stephen Greenblatt: Invisible Bullets. What Lucretius Taught Us About Pandemics (The New Yorker) March 16, 2020Excerpt: "In 1585, the greatest Elizabethan scientist, Thomas Harriot, was sent by his patron, Sir Walter Raleigh, to the nascent English colony in Virginia... Read more about Stephen Greenblatt: Invisible Bullets. What Lucretius Taught Us About Pandemics (The New Yorker)