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Reading the Past and Researching During COVID-19
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Reading the Past and Researching During COVID-19

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Daniel Davies

a guest post by Daniel Davies I defended my Ph.D. dissertation on April 3, 2020. The defense happened on Zoom, which has become standard academic operating procedure by now but at the time felt like an extreme oddity. ‘Zoom is…

Interview and excerpt: Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
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Interview and excerpt: Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

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The Collation

At the Folger, we are proud to sponsor research inquiry within a vibrant and intellectually generous community. Periodically, as that research is published, we circle back to talk with recent authors to showcase the role of collections-based inquiry on their…

Visualizing Shakespeare’s Birds
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Visualizing Shakespeare’s Birds

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Missy Dunaway

a guest post by Missy Dunaway Greetings! I was the Folger Shakespeare Library’s artist-in-residence in November of 2021. I dedicated my Folger Institute Fellowship to a painting project entitled Birds of the Bard. This growing collection of paintings will catalog…

Interview and excerpt: Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Interview and excerpt: Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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The Collation

At the Folger, we are proud to sponsor research inquiry within a vibrant and intellectually generous community. Periodically, as that research is published, we circle back to talk with recent authors to showcase the role of collections-based inquiry on their…

Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland
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Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland

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Lila Chambers

a guest post by Lila Chambers The association between Ireland and excessive drinking is a pervasive one, from fifteenth century texts detailing treacherous feasts held by Irish opponents to Henry II, to Edmund Spender’s A View of the Present State…

Q & A: Ashley Buchanan, Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Institute
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Q & A: Ashley Buchanan, Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Institute

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The Collation

The Folger Institute is pleased to introduce Dr. Ashley Buchanan, our new Associate Director for Fellowships. Dr. Buchanan received her Ph.D. in early modern history in 2018 from the University of South Florida and comes to the Folger with experience…

Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information
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Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information

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Yann Ryan

a guest post by Yann Ryan As well as its terrible consequences for health and mortality, plague in early modern England had a major impact on the communication and circulation of information. Movement was restricted, towns with suspected cases were…

A Glimpse into the Cultural History of Fragaria
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A Glimpse into the Cultural History of Fragaria

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Jennie Youssef

a guest post by Jennie Youssef When the term of my Folger fellowship began, I had made some headway in my research for a dissertation chapter on the foodway of strawberries. The strawberry’s symbolic significance in medieval art and early…

The mystery of Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill and early-modern popular numeracy
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The mystery of Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill and early-modern popular numeracy

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Ray Schrire

a guest post by Ray Schrire It is time for an unofficial Crocodile Mystery. Humphrey Walcot’s grocery bill. Folger, L.f.196 These are a few of my favorite items from the merchant Humphrey Walcot’s shopping list of May 8, 1601 (a…

Picturing Children’s Food in Early Modern Europe
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Picturing Children’s Food in Early Modern Europe

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Carla Cevasco

a guest post by Carla Cevasco While I started my Folger fellowship intending to research children’s foodways in the manuscript recipe book collection, I was surprised by how many hungry, eating, or even eaten children could be found in the…

Extra-Illustrating Othello
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Extra-Illustrating Othello

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Patricia Akhimie

a guest post by Patricia Akhimie On my last visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Fall 2019 (a time that seems all too distant now) to conduct research for a new edition of Othello, I set myself the goal…

Should we care where Lucy Hutchinson went to church?
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Should we care where Lucy Hutchinson went to church?

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Crawford Gribben

A guest post by Crawford Gribben Over the last few years—and with the benefit of my summer Folger fellowship—I’ve been thinking about the network of friends and rivals that had at its centre the puritan theologian, John Owen (1616-83). John…

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