I had been spooked at the time, never imagining that at age 46 I would have a closetful of my dead husband’s clothes, and that it would seem right.

He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse].

All the elements in the woodcut had their origins in the old Dutch feast, except that the wooden shoes had since evolved into stockings as gift receptacles; practical adaptation in a clogless world, perhaps […]

Hapsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty