Landscape with Village near Crossroads and Distant View
School of Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568–1625)

Yale University Art Gallery

Tulips, from Florilegium novum (New Book of Flowers)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612

(Yale University)

Fascinating! This answers everything

It is very disappointing! But yeah, you definitely aren't missing anything

I totally understand what you mean. That isn't too far off our own exhibition's framing of cunning folk. I'm around this information all day so I have to attempt to correct it when visitors ask questions, but the approach is so fundamentally wrong that it's beyond correcting.

Believe me, visitors have said far filthier things about these wands

Oh fascinating!! Thank you for solving this for me. I was too exhausted to figure it out :')

I had been wondering what those were

So was the Elizabethan Witchcraft Act passed in 1562 or 1563? I don't understand why secondary sources can't agree on a date.

I wish an actual historian of witchcraft and indeed cunning folk had been properly consulted because the narrative on witchcraft provided by the exhibition is essentially "the alleged witches were mostly folk healers"

This has unfortunately also happened at an Elizabethan magic exhibition taking place at my own workplace. It has totally dispensed with any nuance in favour of old myths

The lacemaker, c. 1665
Bernhard Kiel

(Met Museum)

St Margaret of Antioch
c. 1475
French, amazing alabaster work.

(Met Museum)

Having been swallowed by the devil in the guise of a dragon, she burst unharmed from its body after making the sign of the cross.

Girl reading by candlelight while leaning on a table

Guido Reni, undated
(b. 4 Nov 1575 - d. 18 Aug 1642 Bologna)

Albertina, Vienna

Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.

Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.

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