This “chemical” wedding, I hasten to add, bears no relation to—and is neither a reference nor even the subtlest whiff of an allusion to—a certain “red” one…

The excellent @Lollardfish of #medievaltwitter has magically transformed my earlier vasty swathes of verbiage into a neat, tidy post over on his blog, How did we get into this mess?

Read more at http://www.thismess.net/2016/05/early-science-fiction-medievalist-on.html 

There are also other excellent posts there, as you might imagine, on all manner of curious and wondrous things. Over the last three months, for example:

Tolle lege…