Caput II. Fellowship
Caput II. Fellowship by Michael Lambert August 2023 Caput II. Fellowship by Michael Lambert August 2023 Friendship comes in many forms. Two short stories highlight contrasting relationships; that of Titus Pomponius and Septico Claro. Of the two men, let us first look at Pomponius to see if he is deserving of praise Titus Pomponius was […]
Caput I. The Land
Caput I. The Land by Michael Lambert July 2023 Caput I. The Land by Michael Lambert July 2023 Flos est pleni veris indicium et anni renascentis, flos gaudium arborum. The flower is the evidence of spring satisfied and the year is renewing, the blossom is the tree’s delight Pliny is the author of the two […]
Caput III. Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage
Caput III. Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage by Michael Lambert June 2023 Caput III. Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage by Michael Lambert June 2023 In this Moneth of June abstain from such meats as do ingender flegm, and drink then of the plesantest Wine, and drink sometimes fasting a cup of white Wine, for it purgeth Choler, […]
Caput II. America
Caput II. America by Michael Lambert May 2023 Caput II. America by Michael Lambert May 2023 Going a-maying against May, Whitsonday or other time, all the yung men and maides olde men and wives run gadding over night to the woods, groves, hils & Mountains, where they spend all the night in plesant pastimes, & […]
Caput I. The Globe
Caput I. The Globe by Michael Lambert April 2023 Caput I. The Globe by Michael Lambert April 2023 It is now April, and the Nightingale begins to tune her throat against May: the Sunny showers perfume the aire, and the Bees begin to goe abroad for honey: the Dewe, as in Pearles, hangs vpon the […]
Caput III. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana
Caput III. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert March 2023 Caput III. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert March 2023 Eye… It is not so different from the olde times to nowe. Though Caesar hath changed the New Year from Kalendae Martiae to Kalendae Ianuariae; Mars remains the deus. He is […]
Caput II. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana
Caput II. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert February 2023 Caput II. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert February 2023 The month is Februarias, the last month of the year before Julius Caesar’s calendrical reforms (making the Tenth Month, Decembres the last month, of the twelve-month cycle; and positioning Ianuarias as […]
Caput I. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana
Caput I. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert January 2023 Caput I. Buchananus et Haddonus et Gloriana by Michael Lambert January 2023 Commencing this Ianuarias, is a three-part series that looks at Latin and European literature during the Tudor-Renaissance era. The series commences with George Buchanan (Georgius Buchananus: 1506-1582) a Scot humanist. The […]
Roman life during the month of Decembres…
Roman life during the month of Decembres… by Michael Lambert December 2022 Roman life during the month of Decembres… by Michael Lambert August 2022 ‘On this day…’ is formal. Roman society was hierarchical and deeply conservative. Religious rites were honoured by thoseto whom the day mattered, such as; rites observed by the Quirinal and Esquiline […]
Two sets of brothers and the forward stride to granting Roman citizenship…
Two sets of brothers and the forward stride to granting Roman citizenship… by Michael Lambert November 2022 Two sets of brothers and the forward stride to granting Roman citizenship… by Michael Lambert October 2022 Two dates are important: 753 BCE and 212 CE The Romans proved the founding myth of Romulus and Remus was true. […]