Emmerson Collection Blog
John Donne and Poetry in the Emmerson Collection
When the Transforming the Early Modern Archive team first looked at the Emmerson Collection, we were so overwhelmed by the number of items, and by the mass of material directly connected to the Civil War, that we thought there...
Ownership, gift and witness: early modern women’s marginalia in the “Eikon Basilike”
One of the exciting new finds within the Emmerson collection is evidence of royalist women’s ownership and exchange of copies of the Eikon Basilike. The Eikon Basilike has been described as “probably the most successful political tract of the English revolution,” and...
Pills, Potions, Predictions, and Poison: Almanacs in the Emmerson Collection
Almanacs were the most popular publications in the seventeenth century: it is estimated that there were around 350,000-400,000 printed each year. They ranged widely in format, from single sheets that were made to be pinned on the wall, like a modern calendar, through...
Robert Burton, “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”
In 1621 a fairly obscure Oxford academic called Robert Burton published what we might now call a self-help book, titled The Anatomy of Melancholy. The term ‘anatomy’, following on from the idea of dissection, indicates that this will parse melancholy into its...
Welcome to the Emmerson Collection blog
Welcome to the Emmerson Collection blog. This blog represents curiosities and things of beauty that we would like to share with you from the ARC Linkage project “Transforming the Early Modern Archive: The Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria” (LP180100704)....
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