Be pleased to receive your invitation to attend the sixty-second edition of Carnivalesque this weekend here at Georgian London, where early modern blogging will be served up for your enjoyment.

Øystein Horgmo is a Norwegian medical photographer who blogs at Sterile Eye.  This month he gives us a tour of the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, combining his eye for the austere, and a great review.  I want to go.

Roy Booth at the venerable Early Modern Whale blogs on This Trutination of Sinnes - the story of Catholic fanatic Edmund Campion and his house, Stonor, proving that little changes over time and there's no crackpot like a religious one.   

Lee Durbin at Marginalia blogs on Michael Drayton's poetry and in particular Brutus's founding of Britain.  Works like this struck fear into my heart as an undergraduate, but this is an excellent look at a neglected type of English poetry.

Everyone's favourite historical-paint-expert Patrick Baty blogs at Colourman on 18th century paint colours.  Go and tell him he should blog more on this, instead of clambering over Britain's buildings and bridges, and being on the tellybox. Honestly. *tuts* 

Executed Today features an exceptionally grim tale (on a blog that sets the bar high) with the story of John Dickson's execution for patricide in 1591. 

Early modern darling Dainty Ballerina features a fan-makers' petition over on Fragments, which should get you all of a flutter.  Well, if you love artisan London as much as I do.  *ahem*

Nick Poyntz of the ever-fabulous Mercurius Politicus blogs on woodcuts and Restoration character Praisegod Barebones, the 17th century equivalent of the chap on Oxford Street with the 'End is Nigh' signboard.  Proper crackers.

The Gentleman Administrator takes on the Restoration's love of tiny canines with typical flare, and no doubt a crime-fighting cape and toy light-saber.

Phil Gyford's astonishing commitment to blogging Samuel Pepys diaries has now extended to Twitter.  There's no particular post, the whole thing is just amazing.

Mary Tudor is not the most appealing of English queens, but the Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen blog makes her case very well.  Her phantom pregnancy is well known but this post looks at it from all the angles and demonstrates her fragile state of mind under the pressure to produce an heir.

Gareth Russell attempts to pin down the facts of Anne Boleyn's life on his blog Confessions of a Ci-Devant.  An interesting read and a new blog to me, so I'll be spending more time here. 

And finally, from our own eminent Quack Doctor, I give you Cameron, the Piss-Prophet.  Many a true word said in jest and all that.  But let's hope not eh?