John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

A cleric in his study/bedroom,
Lorenzo Lotto, 1491-1556 (British Museum)

Clutter, small dog, hint of chaos. All very real.

21 Aug 1588: William Fitch (Benet of Canfield) #English mystic professes vows as a #Capuchin #otd (BM/eebo) - an important & very influential writer, he died in Paris on 21 Nov 1610

Reading as a group activity, beautifully delineated here by Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1659-1670

(British Museum)

20 Aug 1566: Sacking of #Catholic churches at #Antwerp witnessed #otd by Thomas Stapleton, exile #English translator of Bede, biographer of Thomas More, superstar theologian: ‘horrible & outrageous sacrileges’ (Rijksmuseum/BM/eebo)

20 Aug 1576: Five Englishmen on Martin Frobisher's voyage to find the North West passage are taken by the #Inuit #otd Here is Kalicho, an #Inuit captive & #kayaker taken from Baffin Island to #Bristol by Frobisher (BM)

19 Aug 1648: End of the battle of #Preston #otd in which Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert defeat the #Scots forces (@MuseumCromwell /NPG)

19 Aug 1531: Matthew Parker, future Archbishop of #Canterbury attends the burning of Thomas Bilney #evangelical preacher at Lollard's Pit #London #otd (NPG/BM) @DrStevenMFoster

18 Aug 1276: d. Adrian V
18 Aug 1503: d. Alexander VI
18 Aug 1559: d. Paul IV

A bad date for #Popes !

18 Aug 1626: Jeremy Taylor future devotional writer & bishop of Down & Connor admitted to @CaiusCollege
#Cambridge as a sizar #otd

16 Aug: feast of St. Roch, patron of plague victims, #dogs &c #otd (BM) Very popular in middle ages & early modern period for good reason. And being more remembered these days too