The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad this week featured this photo :

The photo captures a moment in a demonstration in the Syrian capital Damascus, one of the many demonstrations protesting against the cartoons placed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. We see a large group of male demonstrators carrying signs in Arabic, signs that I cannot [...]

I just saw this phenomenon on (A)musings of a grad student: the Word Cloud! So without further ado, here’s the word cloud of Earmarks in Early Modern Culture.

I am stunned that the word “revenge” does not seem to have found its way into the cloud, but perhaps that is indicative of my trepidations to write [...]

The February issue of Carnivalesque is up at Pilgrim/Heretic! It’s a bustling fair filled with such wonderful wares as early modern astronomy, perspective drawing, gallows speeches, or an early modern view on the current hubbub over the Mohammed cartoons. I hadn’t yet spotted this review by Past Tense of Linda Levy Peck’s Consuming Splendor, and [...]

I received an email from Brett D. Hirsch (of Werewolf-fame). He is a PhD student writing on early modern drama at the University of Western Australia, and is working on an interesting project. Digital Quarto Editions digitizes Elizabethan and Jacobean plays in plain-text while retaining the original spelling, formatting, and page/folio/signature references for scholarly use. [...]

“I believe that all ethical relating, within or between species, is knit from the silk-strong thread of ongoing alertness to otherness-in-relation. We are not one, and being depends on getting on together.”

I have been reading Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto (2003). The slim booklet, written in a sometimes wordy but engaging style, explores the [...]