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The Paramaterial Phantasy

Navis Stultorum: The [GOP] Ship of Fools

Going “coverless” for far too long on Facebook, I set out on my own ship of Google images foolery, finally landing upon a woodcut from the title page of Sebastian Brant’s 1498 edition of the Stultifera Navis, the “Navis Stultorum” [The Ship of Fools]. (A version of the original can be found at Images from […]

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Posted in Politics, Satire Tagged political satire, politics, presidential politics, satire, Ship of Fools, woodcuts, #GOPShipOfFools, Barack Obama, early modern, Mitt Romney

The Noble Lyfe and Natures of Man? Constructing the boundary between man and beast in an early modern bestiary.

First published in Antwerp around 1521, Lawrence Andrewe’s English translation of the Dutch Der Dieren Palleys of the previous year presents a bold title that indicates that its text will reify the separation of man from beast and declare the nobility of human existence in a world of animals. Through the English title, the bestiary […]

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Posted in Tangents Tagged animals, bestiaries, early modern 1 Comment
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