{"id":2445,"date":"2008-03-15T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2008-03-15T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T10:54:10","slug":"historical-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"Historical miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Archaeology sheds unexpected light on 17th-century Cornwall, with the discovery of a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/science\/article3517036.ece\">series of pits<\/a> lined with swan pelts revealing a previously unknown folk tradition\/religious practice. I&#8217;m calling it that rather than The Times&#8217;s &#8220;witchcraft&#8221;, because who knows how the practitioners saw it&#8230; One of the fascinating things about it, however, is how late this tradition survived without making any impact on the historical record.<\/p>\n<p>* One of Ramses&#8217; sons has been revealed as having what would surely have been in his terms a miserable afterlife &#8211; <a href = \"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/03\/15\/wmummy115.xml\">mistaken for a female temple dancer<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* From my inbox, an exploration of just how much use a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.hurstwic.org\/history\/articles\/manufacturing\/text\/viking_shields.htm#testcuts\">Viking&#8217;s shield<\/a> would be to him (or perhaps her) &#8211; tested out in fun, if slightly frightening, detail. What would it have been like were you fighting in a real-life epic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Archaeology sheds unexpected light on 17th-century Cornwall, with the discovery of a series of pits lined with swan pelts revealing a previously unknown folk tradition\/religious practice. I&#8217;m calling it that rather than The Times&#8217;s &#8220;witchcraft&#8221;, because who knows how the practitioners saw it&#8230; One of the fascinating things about it, however, is how late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}