Sean Oblak
Although we’ve all been facing great challenges throughout the past several months on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative (SCEMBI) continues to bring more attention to early modern English texts that have faded from the public eye. Without in-person access to SCU Archives & Special Collections, our team has […]
The Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative has brought to light a variety of early published works: journals, prayers, magazines, and court transcripts, just to name a few. SCU’s library is certainly unique, but there is also plenty of uniqueness found in the individual texts that form that collection. One such text that has kept […]
Sean Oblak writes about a mysterious seventeenth-century book he encountered in his work with SCEMBI. You’d expect many answers to be found in a book entitled The Question of Questions, especially when it claims to “resolve all our questions” and declares outright, “This book answers this question.” Printed in 1686 and held today at Santa […]
