Zoom talk

A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins about midwinter’s Saturnalia and Twelve Days of Christmas, including that of 1594/5 when Gray’s Inn hosted a grand entertainment during which the Shakespeare play, Comedy of Errors, was enacted, followed by the masque, The Order of the Knights of the Helmet. This “Gesta Grayorum”, as it was called ... Read more

A talk on Zoom by Peter Dawkins explaining the use and symbolism of two tetrahedral pyramids in the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon’s ‘Great Instauration’ – the work that is designed to bring about a “total reconstruction of the sciences, arts, and all human knowledge raised on proper foundations”. Peter will explain how this is a ... Read more