How to avoid a scandalous life

"I am now to end a Scandalous Life, by a deserved Ignominious Death," says a priest about to be executed in 1693. ...

Yep, that can only mean, it is Carnivalesque time. The latest collection of all things early modern in the blogosphere is now up on Pilgrim/Heretic.

There's also a three-headed Saturn, a reading machine, a curious cat, and many other attractions; do go and check it out.