#SundayReads: Beginning with a 14th-century king who believed he was made entirely of glass, Tamara Sanderson investigates the “glass delusion” — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility-the-glass-delusion-and-its-history/ #longreads

#SundayReads: “As Bright as a Feather”, in which Whitney Rakich examines the far-reaching ostrich industry through a peculiar do-it-yourself-style book: Alexander Paul’s The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer (1888) — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/bright-as-a-feather/

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#SundayReads: Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origins of a pair of lurid “translations” from 1927 marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pseudo-boccaccio-yiddish-pulp-fiction-and-the-man-who-ripped-off-joyce

#SundayReads: Jennifer Manoukian recovers the cunning exploits of a forgotten 19th-century conman, whose initially honorable intentions quickly escalated into all-out fraud: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-princely-ploy

#SundayReads — “Windows Onto History”, in which Thom Sliwowski explores the defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997) and finds a national shibboleth imbued with ritual efficacy: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/windows-onto-history/ #longform

#SundayReads: @JenniferHiggie on the remarkable spirit paintings of Victorian artist and medium Georgiana Houghton: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-substantiality-of-spirit/

#SundayReads: Hugh Aldersey-Williams tours the sublime and mostly unrealized designs of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, discovering utopian ideals crafted in cubes, spheres, and pyramids: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/designing-the-sublime

#SundayReads: @HoooAW on Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)”, a lifelong calendrical project by the Norfolk naturalist considered Britain’s first phenologist — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-snowdrop-to-nightjar/

#SundayReads: Grace Linden explores the Archives de la Planète (1909–1931)— Albert Kahn's sprawling, global project to document and preserve the fast-changing world — and uncovers a latent nostalgia in the hyperreal hues of early color photography: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert-kahns-archives-of-the-planet