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An Incident

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Early 15c., “something which occurs casually in connection with something else,” from Old French incident (13c.), and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere “to fall in, fall, find the way; light upon, fall in with; fall upon, occur; happen, befall” –…

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Detail of Bayeux Tapestry: Norman cavalry attacking an English fort. Image by Myrabella, 2013, licensed under Creative Commons. And we’re on Bluesky and Mastodon too. You can also follow the site on Mastodon and on Bluesky. I am no longer posting on the site formerly known as Twitter. Latest posts:…

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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the uncontested early modern king of brackets and to his romance…

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