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According to the former director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, Lawrence S. Thompson, the first reputed example of human-skin binding—anthropodermic bibliopegy—dates to a 13th century French Bible. Human-skin binding likely began in the late 16th or early 17th century, according to Thompson, who has written about the topic...
...confused as to why I should care about any of this. The characters talk constantly, mostly in quasi-literary soliloquies that make no sense, but that are said in a forceful way as if to pretend they actually do, and sometimes peppered with decidedly modern expressions for the 17th century (such as, “fuck you!”). No one’s inner-motivations are explored in a satisfactory or unself-conscious way. Women seem to have no inner motivations at all, except a heart-felt desire to be long-suffering or mercenary and spunky. This...
...been known to flirt with higher literary flights, notably in The Club Dumas, but in his hard-boiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining Captain Alatriste series (of which this is the second volume), Prez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins...
...Douglas Bruster, now an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, recalled that Evans’ office was always filled with “too many stacks of proofs and galleys and books and papers.” Among the books were the 16th- and 17th-century texts that Evans had collected since the 1930s, and that he shared freely with students and fellow scholars. Sometimes he even gave them these rare books as gifts, Engell said. “He was the kindest person I’ve ever met in my life...
...Harvard’s defensive pressure confused Binghamton throughout the night, and held the Bearcats, ranked 17th in the country in field goal percentage, to 25% shooting from the field in the first half. Although it started the game strong, Binghamton missed its last 10 shots of the half— its final field goal was a three from guard Shea Kenny with 11 minutes left. Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith attributed the Bearcat’s drought to improved defensive pressure by the Crimson...