Linebaugh in The London Hanged (p14) writes..." new morality became triumphant among the cpaitalist class at the end of the seventeenth century. Christopher Hill contrasted it with the religious attitudes prvailing earlier: 'Labou

 Unsually this is a fairly straight reproduction of a list post - in this case to WWTTA on the subject of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage Books 1-3 (Volume 1). I have put it here in addition partly because I have found the book so fascinatin

Continuing to watch Rome, the second series, and reading a lengthy discussion on ECW about classicism I fell to musing on these topics. The problem with the discussion was the lack of definition of 'classicism'. What do we mean by this?

The serendipity of the past few weeks has been coming across a number of debates and discussions about blogging (well I have met a lot about depression and mental health too but I am probably attuned to see these even where they don't exist!) and

I have decided from time to time to create what might be termed a Diary Blog. This is necessarily a somewhat self-indulgent exercise but since this blog is a form of therapy for me (indeed this may be its chief value!) this objection has little force