Renaissance Utterances

Klapa singers on Vis 2016 One of my first experiences of klapa music during my stay in Split was wandering around the city late one cold...

Death of the last King of Croatia I've decided to put my Croatian Culture and Civilisation notes here because they are slightly more...

  "Yes," said Mr. Fawnhope. "There will be verdure, and that, I think, is what my soul craves. I, with my fair Cecilia, to...

I fulfilled an ambition at the weekend; to run down The Cut to Limehouse Basin, head on to Narrow Street via Ropemaker Fields, and then o...

From the natural open space of Green Park to the ordered splendour of Russell Square, it is hard to avoid London's parks and gardens. ...

The penultimate talk which I want to cover here marks the descent into something much darker than death and memory; the creation of life....

From theoretical surrealist curiosity to artistic rational enquiry, Jane Wildgoose's presentation on the work which has arisen from h...

I attended the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 'Data Protection Act 1984, Freedom of Information Act 2000: thirty and fifteen ...

Buy a fine singing bird (1688) If you're an exotic creature, there's no trusting anything outside in January. From tiny tapirs ...

  © Jagoda Kaloper-Tajder In true Renaissance woman style, I'm worried  I'm over-intellectualising my new found enjoyment of a f...

It's often about timing; sometimes dates, events, circumstances, planetary alignments* combine to make an extraordinary moment in time...

Not a computer pic It’s not just the internet that has been around for ages. Turns out I have too. I have been mining my LA/CILIP Profe...

This afternoon I was lucky enough to be a part of the advance rape and pillage expedition to the new Sainsbury wing of the British Museum....

Rome as a religious centre? Pardon? Ok, what exactly did I know about Rome as a place of pilgrimage? I’ve seen Gladiator and I, Claudius (...

Stephen Walter 'London Subterranea' (2012) After spending a virtual week in the troll-inhabited unmannerly wilderness of the int...

Hunterian Museum ‘No theory can ever be proved true - we can only show that a theory is false’ -  Karl Popper I've been meaning to...

This is a tentative blog post because it's an area into which I wouldn't normally stray; I have no knowledge and no declared inter...

It  occurred  to me the other day that there was no renaissance material on this blog, which given my background, is a travesty! So I was ...