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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Double bewitchment”: Love-Beams, the Mutual Gaze, and the Interpenetrating Visions of Marsilio Ficino’s De Amore

I have been arguing for a medieval and early modern paramaterial phantasy which paradoxically positioned the phantasy and its spirits somewhere between the material and the immaterial, and between the body and the soul. In this post, I want to explore Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic construction of love in his De Amore (On Love) to further […]

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Posted in Scholarship, Early Modern Senses, Shaping Sense Tagged Phantasy, theories of love, vision, history of vision, early modern senses, Marsilio Ficino, love beams, early modern, homoeroticism, imagination, De Amore, paramaterial, Love

“Print is Dead”: More Medieval and Early Modern Inspired Woodcuts, With a Second Edition of Henry VIII, HVIIIERS Gonna HVIII

It has been nearly a year since I have posted to my website, but, rest assured, I have continued my engagement with the medieval, early modern, and printmaking worlds. I want to assure you that this website, like print itself, is not dead. You can always find these woodcuts and many others at my Etsy […]

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Posted in #WoodcutWednesday, Satire, Silly Things, Tangents, woodcuts Tagged printmaking, Johannes Gutenberg, Thomas Coryat, Robert Greene, DeDigitizeTheArchive, Elephant, woodcut, Moll Cutpurse, Conny Catcher, Henry VIII, Middleton, smiling poo emoji, Tudors, Roaring Girl, #WoodcutWednesday, Stephen Batman, wynkyn de worde, witchcraft, early modern, William Shakespeare, Giulio Romano, Francesco Petrarcha, senseshaper, Aretino, medieval, Aretino's Postures, Petrarch, Henry Tudor, Marcantonio Raimondi, Shakespeare, Gutenberg

HVIIIers Gonna HVIII: Henry VIII and Other Senseshaper Woodcuts Inspired by the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

While I have not been posting to this blog on early modern vision as regularly as I want, I have been busy making more woodcuts inspired by the medieval and early modern periods. While my Henry VIII woodcut attained some popularity on social media sites not long after I made it, I had yet to […]

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Posted in Silly Things, woodcuts, Tangents, #WoodcutWednesday Tagged Virgin Queen, Henry VIII, Monas Hieroglyphica, Elizabethan, senseshaper, Rosicrucian, Chaucer, prints, Hilary Mantel, early modern, The Tudors, Wolf Hall, medieval, Henry Tudor, Bringing Up the Bodies, renaissance, Sir Thomas More, Birth of Venus, Richard III, Geoffrey Chaucer, Botticelli, Plague Doctor, Sandro Botticelli, woodcut, Durer, Elizabeth I, art, John Dee 1 Comment

“Their phantasies differ”: The Phantasy in Raleigh’s translation of Sextus Empiricus

The “Sceptick,” first published in 1651 and attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, offers one of the first known English translations, albeit unacknowledged, of portions of Sextus Empiricus’ Outlines. While it is not a pure translation, and while it only offers an expurgated version of Sextus’ classical skeptical work, it is undoubtedly based on portions of […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense, Scholarship, Philosophical Skepticism Tagged early modern senses, Raleigh, early modern, history of senses, paramaterial, phantasms, Phantasy, philosophical skepticism, Sextus Empiricus, skepticism

“In my mind’s eye”: Species, Phantasms, Skepticism, and the Phantasy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and in Early Modern Theater

Part I. “He thinks tis but our fantasy”: The Ontology and Epistemology of Ghosts and Spirits In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the skeptical and possibly Stoic Horatio reveals to the melancholic eponymous prince that he has seen a phantasm. Before Horatio can even reveal his harrowing yet problematic tale of seeing a “form like [Hamlet’s] father,” […]

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Posted in William Shakespeare, Early Modern Senses, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense, Scholarship Tagged Hamlet, optics, Robert Burton, Malleus Maleficarum, paramaterial, history of vision, witches, Phantasy, William Shakespeare, delusions, philosophical skepticism, early modern senses, cultural studies, Rene Descartes, renaissance, perimaterial, Descartes, Raleigh, senses, ghosts, early modern, Ralegh, Shakespeare, spirits, epistemology, supernatural, skepticism, drama, history of science, Galenic humoralism, vision, Johann Weyer, history of the senses, accounts of demons and witchcraft, Reginald Scot, imagination

Re-Membering the Penis in Early Modern English Woodcuts; Now with More NSFW GIF

Last week I received the following Tweet from scholar and #WoodcutWednesday fan Sjoerd Levelt:   Another Adamite expose with a similar woodcut may be "the first depiction of an erect penis in English popular print." #TheMoreYouKnow — John Overholt (@john_overholt) October 24, 2013   I’m not sure how I attained a reputation to have expertise on […]

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Posted in Tangents, #WoodcutWednesday, Silly Things Tagged early English print, early modern, renaissance, pornography, porn, erections in art, hermaphrodites, wynkyn de worde, Mandeville's Travels, human sexuality

The Interactive Galenic Humoral Man Beta

For some time, I’ve been toying around with the idea of making small semi-interactive interfaced presentations on various important aspects of early modern life and culture. My first attempt, which was quite long, explained the sensitive soul and is still in progress. Because that file is so large and unwieldly, I thought I would try […]

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Posted in Tangents Tagged early modern, renaissance, Galen, humoralism, experiment, interactive, medicine, physic 2 Comments

#WoodcutWednesday: “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (AKA Thomas Cranmer) ft. H-8 (AKA Henry VIII, AAKA Henry Tudor)

“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (ft. H-8) “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (ft. H-8) Shawty Masque (Yeah). T-Cramm. Damn. Shawty Masque. H-8. (Shawty). [H-8:] Ay, Ay, She masqueing. Ah, she masqueing. Shawty masquein’. [T-Cramm:] Mask your face, do the step, you can do it all by yourself. [Verse 1:] […]

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Posted in Satire, Silly Things, #WoodcutWednesday Tagged early modern, satire, English Renaissance, Henry VIII, Thomas Cranmer, T-Pain, Tudors

“Vegetable Love”: Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Herrick’s “The Vine,” and the Attraction of Plants

In his poem “To His Coy Mistress,” Andrew Marvell’s speaker begins by imagining a scenario in which he and his lover have all the time in the world to love one another without a fear of death. During the course of his musings, the lover makes an odd metaphor for the growth of his love […]

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Posted in #WoodcutWednesday, Silly Things, Tangents Tagged Phantasy, dendrophilia, woodcuts, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, Vegetable Love, English Renaissance, Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, early modern, Herrick, imagination, The Vine 2 Comments

GIF-ing the Woodcut; Or, Early Modern Party Animals

Nearly everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous dorm room and man-cave wall hanging that is popularly known as “Dogs Playing Poker.” This series of sixteen predominantly card-playing canines, cigar advertisements from the early twentieth century, reveal a fascination with anthropomorphized animals, especially when they are engaged in illicit activity or otherwise questionable behavior. This corporate […]

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Posted in Silly Things, #WoodcutWednesday Tagged art, The Winter's Tale, #WoodcutWednesday, Atolycus, animals, drunkards, early modern, Thomas Wright, Shakespeare, Philip Stubbes, ballad, drinking, alcohol, woodcut 4 Comments
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