Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Most of us have a passion that we want to share with others, something that draws us out

of our shell and can get us so invested that meals get missed, laundry gets ignored, and

dishes can really pile up.

For King James IV of Scotland, that passion was language.

James IV was a true Renaissance man, in every sense.

This term meant as an homage to Leonardo da Vinci, the original Renaissance man, refers

to someone who is well studied, well-rounded, and skilled in many areas either through

natural talent or hard work.

During the period that James IV lived in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the

Renaissance was just kicking off, and the ideas coming out of it were spreading far and

wide.

Suddenly it wasn't enough for a learned person to master languages and histories.

They should also be intellectual, a philosopher willing to debate different ideas, an artist,

a scholar, maybe even an inventor of some sort.

The ideal Renaissance man was all of that, and more.

James IV was very young when he came to the throne, and just 15 he still should have been

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