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Early modern women

Mary Astell, Magdalene College, gender inequality in the early modern period and today, and a few resources for scholars in the field.…

Early modern women

This blog is on a new platform

As I said in my previous post, I was having technical problems uploading a new-look website to Discourses of Suffering. It turned out the blog was the cause of the problems, and because of this I have had to move the blog onto another platform. It’s los…

The evils of technology

If you try to follow links to the main website (Discourses of Suffering main site), you will notice that they don't currently work. An installation of WordPress on the main site conflicted with the blog, which is also a WordPress site, with disastrous consequences. I'm hoping the host provider is going to be able to…

Early modern studies: Ebooks

It's been a while since I posted here. I did a lot of travelling in 2023, there are other projects I'm working on, and suddenly I find it's been months since I last posted. It's not that I haven't been working on the early modern period. Last summer, I was back in the University Library…

“Three Thomases”: Tres Thomae, a Catholic work by Thomas Stapleton

Here is another text-searchable PDF file of an early modern text. Here's the link. This is the second (1612) edition of Thomas Stapleton's account of the lives of Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Beckett and Thomas More. The first edition was published in Douai in 1588. Somewhat neglected these days, Stapleton was a leading Catholic controversialist…