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The Christian Literary Studies Group has a call for papers out for its Autumn 2021 conference (usually in #Oxford but likely partially online this year). The theme is on: 'Going: Figuring Journey, Position and Place'. https://t.co/nI1qcWCmd4

Reminds me of Egbert van Heemskerck (II)'s allegory (1690 - 1744) of the negative effects of alcohol & tobacco showing smoking/drinking peasants surrounding (like funeral mourners) a sick woman who is holding an empty glass (a symbolically empty hourglass). https://t.co/8kp8bOBh9w

#17thCentury #GiftGiving. In 1649 Thomas Fairfax is given a 'Bason & Ewer of beaten Gold as Testimony of the hearty affections [of #London]', Oliver Cromwell is sent a 'present of plate to the value of 300 l, & 200 pieces in gold'. (Source: 'A perfect diurnall', 4-11 June 1649).

2/4 And these major scenic differences in woodcuts of the 'Marriage of Cana' and 'St Stephen Stoned', when compared between a 1680 (left) and 1699 (right) #PrayerBook both printed by John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills 'Printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty'.

Another gem for the EM pet/owner #portrait series. This time Charles Le Brun’s immersive painting of 'Everhard Jabach and His Family' (1660) with its loyal, but distracted, hound.

The Personal Rule of Charles II:

No Prince so intimately vers'd has been
In the Resorts of Business, and of Men.
You are Your Self a Senate, Diet, One,
A single Council, Parliament alone.

Source:: 'A poem to His most Excellent Majesty Charles the Second' (1660)

Whatever your feelings on Charles I, he inspired a vast variety of artistic representations from #portrait miniatures in lockets & rings, to #vanitas still-life paintings, #mementomori medals, embroideries & tapestries, engraved books and broadsides. #StuartArt #KeepingitStuart

Another charming early modern owner/animal #portrait, this time Joseph Wright's 'Maria, from Sterne' (1781) (Ferens Art Gallery).

Fantastic! Reminds me of this Charles II needlework depiction of the Judgement of Solomon. Made with coloured silks & silver & gilt metal threads, with purl-work/moss-work, it shows just how vibrant biblical art was in post-Reformation Britain. Source https://t.co/uloqHb7bwQ https://t.co/zW6xXbIKaN

@DrFrancisYoung @GEMMS_sermons @EcclesHistSoc @burgonsoc Yes, academic garb was considered less controversial, #Puritans greatly valued #education, so maintained the hierarchical dress-code of the universities. There were, of course, slight variations between BAs, Masters, Senior Fellows & DD's as these 1674 David Logan engravings show