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Shaping Sense

The Paramaterial Phantasy

“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 woodcuts, #WoodcutWednesday, Satire, Silly Things, Tangents Tagged medieval, Aretino's Postures, Petrarch, Henry Tudor, Marcantonio Raimondi, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, 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

Petrarch’s Cat and the Casa del Petrarca: The Excremental Remainder of Literary Tourism

Having previously written three separate entries on cats, I reluctantly post this for fear of becoming identified as a cat blog.1 My first cat post concerned identifying the strange woodcut on William Griffith’s 1570 edition of William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, which, although presenting original research, sadly remains the least viewed of my cat trilogy. […]

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Posted in Delusions Tagged cats, travel, literary tourism, Italy, cultural studies, Petrarch, renaissance, Zizek, Petrarca 3 Comments

“Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees”: Othello’s Tears and the Weeping Trees of Acacia and Myrrh. A Corrective Gloss to Most Modern Editions of Shakespeare.

I. “The Arbaian trees their medicinable gum”: Othello’s Weeping Trees During Othello’s suicide speech, he makes several references that have attracted the attention of modern editors and scholars. The most famous concerns the textual variations between the Quarto and Folio versions of the line “Like a base Indian, threw a pearl away.” Whereas the Quarto […]

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Posted in Tangents, Scholarship, Shaping Sense, William Shakespeare Tagged Othello, early modern, jealousy, Herbals, Iago, history of the senses, seeing as, imagination, Gerard, Petrarch, Phantasy, Shakespeare, vision

The “plague of phantasms”: Petrarch’s Secretum and the Paramaterial Objects of Sense in Human and Non-Human Animals

In Petrarch’s Secretum written somewhere between 1347 and 1353 and circulated posthumously, Petrarch shapes a dialogue between himself and a fictionalized Augustine. Augustine chastises and instructs Petrarch for favoring an attention to the world over devotion to God and spiritual things. Towards the end of book one of this dialogue, Augustine reveals the tensions inherent […]

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Posted in Shaping Sense Tagged imagination, ontology, Albertus Magnus, optics, animal studies, paramaterial, cultural studies, Petrarch, early modern, Phantasy, epistemology, renaissance, Francesco Petrarcha, Secretum, history of he mind, senses, history of science, history of the senses 1 Comment

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