M & D Read

[Mark Kohut]

So, a possibility as the Renaissance began, at the end of the
encrusted Middle Ages? Kicking in
noticeably around the Age of Reason, mid-sixteen hundreds and, more
than once in M &D
is the development of science/technology shown as one way up?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose so, but there've always been the likes of Shakespeare and Wolsey
> who've ascended past their designated social station.
>
>
> On Thursday, February 12, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> p. 73. "How did a baker's son get to be Assistant to the Astronomer Royal?
>> Etc.
>>
>> Upward mobility, a generally new thing for the times.
>>
>> That paragraph ending with "Or are we being used, by Forces invisible
>> even to thy Invisible College?"
>>
>> ???
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