Master wood carver Hugh Wedderburn took me on a quest in search of Grinling Gibbons in the City of London. Gibbons was born in Rotterdam in 1648, where he trained as wood carver and was exposed to the ...
Der Bestrafte Brudermord did not appear in print until 1781, based on a now lost manuscript dated 1710, although it is clearly of much earlier origin. As the introduction to our edition argues in some ...