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Carnivorous Tudors

clarionfriends wrote 3 days ago: The Tudors were a family not disinclined to eat their own if threatened which made them both enterta … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, anne boleyn, Henry VIII, Hilary Mantel, Katherine of Aragon, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Tudors, William Shakespeare

New Trotsky Biography

Ryan Young wrote 1 week ago: Robert Service’s new biography of Trotsky is reviewed in today’s Wall Street Journal. Ha … more →

Tags: Books, Economics, Great Thinkers, monetary theory, Philosophy, communism, Karl Marx, Lenin, Leon Trotsky

Public Policy Forum and Social Innovation Generation (SiG) at MaRS - Smart Ideas for Canada

thenewcurrency wrote 2 weeks ago: Today was one of the best days in my life. Thank you Tim Draimin, Executive Director of SiG for exte … more →

Tags: social enterprise, The New Currency, be inspired today, social innovation generation, SIG, Mars, Tim Draimin, Ilse Treurnicht, David J. Mitchell

Utopian world..and school and guitar.

givenalias wrote 3 weeks ago: So I’m done with my deadline. First time I’ve ever been ahead of schedule on that. Usual … more →

Tags: daily going ons, Unsorted Ramblings, School, deadline, Schedule, spontaneity, Guitar, fret, utopia

We’ve Come a Long Way: John Calvin and the Condemnation of Michael Servetus2 comments

txevangelist wrote 1 month ago: My post yesterday introducing Joel Osteen to Job (read it here) elicited quite a response. While som … more →

Tags: Church History, Reformation, Catholic Church, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Michael Servetus, Geneva, calvinism, Heresy

Humor in Utopia

masterlaird wrote 1 month ago: In Book 2 of Utopia, what caused you to laugh? … more →

Tags: renaissance, utopia

Utopia as a Foil

masterlaird wrote 1 month ago: The narrator “More” admits to being dubious about the prospects for actually achieving t … more →

Tags: renaissance, utopia

Utopian Religious Practices1 comment

masterlaird wrote 1 month ago: What is the status of religion in Utopia? It religion closely connected to the State, or is it indep … more →

Tags: renaissance, utopia

Gold and Silver

masterlaird wrote 1 month ago: Raphael says that the Utopians, unlike Europeans, make utility rather than scarcity the basis of the … more →

Tags: renaissance, utopia

Utopia: Marx’s Dream Come True?

G G wrote 1 month ago: Sir Thomas More’s classic work Utopia (I used the translation done by Robert M. Adams) has, at times … more →

Tags: College Papers, Marxism, utopia

Beautiful Places – Lincoln’s Inn, London

Wendy Mason wrote 2 months ago: Lincoln’s Inn  is one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belon … more →

Tags: Beautiful Places, Lincoln's Inn, London, Architecture, Beautiful, Beauty, Facts, Inns of Court, Lawyer's London

Job Security or Dead Men Tell No Tales 3 comments

iamslain wrote 2 months ago: From left to right, top to bottom: Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and of course Henr … more →

Tags: Comic, Henry VIII, I am Slain, Thomas Cromwell

Those Scandalous Tudors4 comments

youngromantic wrote 2 months ago: I’ve seen every episode of Arrested Development. I’ve seen nearly every episode of Seinf … more →

Tags: Media Mayhem, anne boleyn, Catholicism, CBC, Henry VIII, History, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Protestant, Showtime

Showboating down Route 113 comments

Ben wrote 2 months ago: How could any woman say no? Routes 11, 344 (2 hours 12 minutes) Route 11 is a marquee route. One for … more →

Tags: Aldwych, Chelsea, Clapham Junction, elephant & castle, fulham, Lambeth, liverpool street, Pimlico, Victoria

Thomas More, The Saint

viverechristusest wrote 2 months ago: When away on state business, Thomas More received word from home of a fire. In the letter he sent ho … more →

Tags: Kneeling Theology, Saints, Philippians 1:21, The Cross

The Renaissance Conscience: Special Issue of Renaissance Studies

h1storym0nkey wrote 3 months ago: This month sees the publication of the special issue of Renaissance Studies I have co-edited with Ha … more →

Tags: Edward Vallance, casuistry, James Daybell, Renaissance studies, Renaissance Conscience, H. E. Braun, E. Vallance, M.W.F.Stone, Brian Cumming

Once upon a time, Govinda, Venky, Seshu, Gundu23 comments

churumuri wrote 3 months ago: MADHU GOPINATH RAO writes from New York City: August brings back fond memories. Memories of life whe … more →

Tags: Kannada & Karnataka, Mysore-Bangalore, once upon a time, churumuri, Ganesh Chathurthi, Ganesha Habba, Jagjit Singh, Malleshwaram, sans-serif

#1 comment

Molly wrote 3 months ago: I know I’m a product of Limeyland, through and through. The quivering, purse-lipped, rose-pink … more →

Tags: Art, New York, Holbein, Thomas Cromwell, The Frick Collection, Keen's Steakhouse, natural history museum, The Met, Turner

"We Have Done As Our Predecessors Have Been Wont To Do"1 comment

danhartland wrote 3 months ago: A nice line in bowing... Those three Henrican Lord Chancellors – Wolsey, More and Cromwell … more →

Tags: Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, James Frain, The Tudors, Thomas Wolsey


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