https://hcommons.org/members/christophercrosbie/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher Crosbie. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d0d3e79469bbf9027525e8f873dd29c3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1923385/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:18:18 -0400 0 a8178e80e50d31663508de0a4f58d758 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895470/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:12:13 -0400 0 d9388f332d689899dede8ff32d2cfb70 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859610/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:25 -0400 This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

]]> 0 78328ca5455964c48418e28faa4de8b7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859608/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:10 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes's "The Misfortunes of Arthur" pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 ee6cd97c9476a4d45205f18fe49862f5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859607/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:09 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes's "The Misfortunes of Arthur" pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 4b5c6f9a6435b97436b3a974d461d19f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859363/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:28:07 -0400 This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad509df8156a1b533729d0218ffc62ce https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859350/ Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:26:46 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes's "The Misfortunes of Arthur" pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 ee1577cbe89effd99a4f030772292326 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855434/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:50 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c699252eda54ba4b52e6d1e3afa7ae6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855433/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:44 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1feaceb5356e4cb472a5238844e7651 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855432/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:42 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 4331395b2d11d1c9eb84412d3a6bf1b6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1854932/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:06:51 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1ebe6aed8b22ad7b320ac06c7689419 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845035/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:51 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 627cf0637a267b3333b7bfff4597400c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845034/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:42 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbffe2d243d0828d50633064cfbbaa30 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845033/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:39 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 f19ee4de15535b0ac34f04068146cd6e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1844595/ Tue, 09 May 2023 13:12:15 -0400 Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener's son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e61da2a426b55efea5600ac2c85d412 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843895/ Mon, 08 May 2023 14:14:07 -0400 0 7ca7b58035f1f60f0babd53bcf0c6914 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843572/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:55 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 70fdb90ba4e2fd9e5a29d7e449ad0400 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843571/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:44 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 86ba11ef229c4b9bcf202ef355cd3652 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843570/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:23:41 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 28b6d0dd0a857f9fa0bb9423c7cc5ef2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843361/ Wed, 03 May 2023 01:09:56 -0400 Examines Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle's Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.

]]> 0 607f70bdc1d802079ea1382112f7b528 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842936/ Sat, 29 Apr 2023 02:24:33 -0400 Shortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]

]]> 0 eae49db33f643b388f1b6f492c2d2d7b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842880/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:14:07 -0400 Shortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cf5858e02b977c73541d04edab46b52 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842217/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 This essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d6c167f027d307eaeece6e2fa7162e6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842182/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:53:05 -0400 This essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]

]]> 0 505541ee8177b89ccbc6388b992c9eec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842089/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:25:03 -0400 The Longleat Manuscript, the earliest known illustration of a Shakespearean play, contains three main components: a passage from the beginning of Titus Andronicus where Tamora pleads for her son's life, lines from Aaron's final confession, and a hand-drawn image that, apparently, corresponds with neither passage fully. Amid other mysteries, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4548925a5e2b1f0d6413c7782deafaea https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842053/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:13:39 -0400 The Longleat Manuscript, the earliest known illustration of a Shakespearean play, contains three main components: a passage from the beginning of Titus Andronicus where Tamora pleads for her son's life, lines from Aaron's final confession, and a hand-drawn image that, apparently, corresponds with neither passage fully. Amid other mysteries, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a00f16dae974aca3c070ab2bdfa933b0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834290/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:44 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7f80a0d4320d8fa4eece9d0e6815aba https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834289/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:38 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d49210898d8e0c4a454337ffe0f21ab https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834288/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:28:36 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

]]> 0 c06365c615bfb1fc5b55847ed6dc3928 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834080/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:11:20 -0500 In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

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