Renaissance Lutanists
Yes, I know I said I’d move on to Renaissance physicians, but you won’t have to wait long. I have posted about musicians of Sir Anthony Standen’s era before. The On This Day website tells me that on 28th October 1612, King James I appointed Robert Dowland as court...
El Alamein
On October 27, 1942, the fourth day of the Battle of El Alamein, Allied and Axis forces remained locked in intense combat across the harsh desert landscape of Egypt. This day marked a critical stage in the Allied effort to weaken German and Italian forces and gain...
Renaissance Physician – Guillaume de Baillou
I posted recently about Jean-Baptiste Morin as an astrologer who makes an appearance in my work in progress The Favourite Murder, which will be the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. He was also a physician. So let us continue with another Renaissance...
Renaissance Composer – Palestrina
I’m beginning to lose inspiration for blogs derived from today’s historical events. I think it’s just that I’ve already done most of them that interest me, or that relate to Sir Anthony Standen in some way. However I’ve done a few on Renaissance scientists, artists,...
Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology
I posted recently about using AI to generate horoscopes for use in my fifth novel of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Favourite Murder. I have been writing a scene today where Anthony is meeting with Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583-1656) to have is horoscope done....
The Pencil
I write the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures on my computer and sometimes my tablet. I make notes in my notebook or on scraps of paper with whatever is at hand, pen or pencil. In The Suggested Assassin Sir Anthony yearns for a kind of magic quill which could be used to...
AI and Writing
I have written about AI before. I have occasionally used it to create an illustration for my blog, often with hilarious results. But I have now found a use for AI in writing. In my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
Language and Gamut
I become increasingly fascinated by language. I studied English (language and literature), French and German at O Level, before focussing on maths and physics at A level, and Engineering Science at university. Only when I took a degree in Modern Language Studies...
History – The Prequel
Claire told me long ago that time immemorial, or before legal memory, is defined as before 1189 A.D., and was fixed by the Statute of Westminster in 1275. Today we visited Stonehenge, a Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, and it made me wonder what the...
Renaissance Lutanists
Yes, I know I said I’d move on to Renaissance physicians, but you won’t have to wait long. I have posted about musicians of Sir Anthony Standen’s era before. The On This Day website tells me that on 28th October 1612, King James I appointed Robert Dowland as court...
El Alamein
On October 27, 1942, the fourth day of the Battle of El Alamein, Allied and Axis forces remained locked in intense combat across the harsh desert landscape of Egypt. This day marked a critical stage in the Allied effort to weaken German and Italian forces and gain...
Renaissance Physician – Guillaume de Baillou
I posted recently about Jean-Baptiste Morin as an astrologer who makes an appearance in my work in progress The Favourite Murder, which will be the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. He was also a physician. So let us continue with another Renaissance...
Renaissance Composer – Palestrina
I’m beginning to lose inspiration for blogs derived from today’s historical events. I think it’s just that I’ve already done most of them that interest me, or that relate to Sir Anthony Standen in some way. However I’ve done a few on Renaissance scientists, artists,...
Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology
I posted recently about using AI to generate horoscopes for use in my fifth novel of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Favourite Murder. I have been writing a scene today where Anthony is meeting with Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583-1656) to have is horoscope done....
The Pencil
I write the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures on my computer and sometimes my tablet. I make notes in my notebook or on scraps of paper with whatever is at hand, pen or pencil. In The Suggested Assassin Sir Anthony yearns for a kind of magic quill which could be used to...
AI and Writing
I have written about AI before. I have occasionally used it to create an illustration for my blog, often with hilarious results. But I have now found a use for AI in writing. In my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
Language and Gamut
I become increasingly fascinated by language. I studied English (language and literature), French and German at O Level, before focussing on maths and physics at A level, and Engineering Science at university. Only when I took a degree in Modern Language Studies...
History – The Prequel
Claire told me long ago that time immemorial, or before legal memory, is defined as before 1189 A.D., and was fixed by the Statute of Westminster in 1275. Today we visited Stonehenge, a Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, and it made me wonder what the...