I visit the tomb of Héloïse and Abélard to find them side-by-side entombed in stone. Their tale is a tragic one, as he suffered the consequences of his unholy passion for the young woman whose gift for learning was rare. #medievalmonday #medievalsky #heloiseandabelard #history #themodernsalonniere
02.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A passionate sightseer expresses regret that ancient architecture isn’t allowed to exist in its natural state. My newest salon exploration is live. It features treasured drawings I saw @ The Morgan Library. #paestum #italy #sirjohnsoane #giovannibattistapiranesi #substackauthor #indieauthor #history
26.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saxon Henry photographed this image of Carol Channing and Queen Elizabeth II.
Saxon Henry photographed this image of Carol Channing and Queen Elizabeth II.
Carol Channing and Queen Elizabeth II in 1979 at the London opening of "Hello, Dolly," a film adaptation based on Thornton Wilder's play "The Matchmaker." I photographed the images at the Beinecke Library at Yale, which houses his papers. What a fascinating blast from the past! #qeii #royalty
25.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saxon Henry photographed this Petrarchan letter about Laura in the Beinecke Library at Yale.
Imagine having the opportunity to touch this Petrarchan letter about Laura written in 1461! I am in awe of many of the treasures housed within the Beinecke Library at Yale. Isn't the penmanship sublime? #MedievalMonday #medievalsky
23.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
James McNeill Whistler took no prisoners as he went to war with nearly everyone, especially critics who didn't grasp his mission. I share a poem today, and include a photo I took of one of his paintings at @frickcollection.bsky.social. #themodernsalonniere #poetry #whistler #jamesmcneillwhistler
21.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Cecil Beaton sent this holiday greeting to Gertrude Stein, which Saxon Henry found in Stein's papers at Yale.
Cecil Beaton sent this holiday card to Gertrude Stein. The fashionable ladies on it are funny given Stein was prone to wearing tweeds and stout shoes that made her look like a game warden overseeing the exotic birds in Natalie Barney's salon! #history #themodernsalonniere #substack #substackauthor
20.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The curtain closes on the life and reign of Marie Louise, though not until after she marries another man who is not her equal and continues to perfect the art of capitulation. Welcome to the salon… #marielouiseofaustria #parma #italy #museoglaucolombardi #regioparma #teatroregiodiparma
14.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Saxon Henry went through Henry Miller's notebooks from his time in Paris.
When Henry Miller haunted the streets of #Paris in search of inspiration, he was homeless, hungry, and happy--three words one would not think relate. I combed through his notebooks from his time as an expat in France and it was thrilling. #armchairtravel #writingcommunity #nonfiction #substackauthor
05.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Saxon Henry quotes Marie le Jars de Gournay, Michel de Montaigne’s adoptive daughter.
Marie le Jars de Gournay describes the cause of violence in her time as, “The power...conferred on noblemen by the sword...except in the case of a few superior minds, [it goes] to men’s heads.” It feels like we've gone back in time given all of the saber-rattling that's going on now: do you agree?
02.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
While in Siena, I learned that #Michelangelo had such a deep love for a 16th-century poet, he worshiped her: welcome to the salon! #history #poet #renaissance #reformation #tuscany #medievalmonday #MedievalSky #nonfiction #substack #themodernsalonniere #armchairtravel #substackauthor #siena #italy
02.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In this salon exploration, I'm in #Tuscany channeling a 16th-century celebrity in a medieval village known as #castelmonastero. #history #poet #renaissance #reformation #italy #MedievalMonday #MedievalSky #nonfiction #substack #writingcommunity #themodernsalonniere #armchairtravel #substackauthor
02.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An encounter with an ancient piece of architecture brings an unexpected surprise. #history #culture #indieauthor #MedievalMonday #MedievalSky #history #themodernsalonniere #armchairtravel #writingcommunity #nonfiction #substack #substackauthor #bologna #italy #santostefano
02.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating! Thanks for answering.
31.01.2026 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People walking on the sreet, old stone building, big tree, cars, mild autumn sunlight at the back, tall tower.
It’s freezing cold in Finland and while going through my never ending archives, a travel photo came up. For a change, Eiffel tower, enjoy!
#Photography #StreetPhotography #CityScape #BlueSky #Memoir
#NewRelease!
Egypt, 58 BCE
Ptolemy Princess Cleopatra grows up in a palace of wonders, delights & dangers
Through peril & politics Cleopatra's fate unfolds, leading her to Egypt's throne
The Last Queen
£2.99
#Free #KindleUnlimited!
#Histfic #Ancient #KU ##booksky 📚💙📚💙📚
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Can we fault a Beat poet for seeing Peggy Guggenheim as less desirable than her daughter? Guggenheim certainly did and Corso became persona non grata in #Venice and beyond. #peggyguggenheim #gregorycorso #history #culture #themodernsalonniere #beatpoetry #poetry
31.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Silver penny of Æthelstan bearing his name, portrait and the title rex to Brit, 'King of all Britons'.
Æthelstan, king of the Anglo-Saxons, met Sigtryggr, king of York, at Tamoworthig (Tamworth, Staffordshire), #OTD in 926, where Æthelstan gave him his only known full sister in marriage. Roger of Wendover says Sigtryggr was also baptised on this occasion. 📸Athelstan Museum #medievalsky
30.01.2026 07:34 — 👍 40 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Would you be surprised to know that a woman who grandly succeeded in luring some of the most important creatives of the #Edwardian era into her drawing rooms was beset with a debilitating lack of inner confidence? #history #culture #themodernsalonniere #england #booksky #nonfiction #amwriting
31.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honoré de Balzac is a rather desperate case of a talented creative taken over by excess. His extreme reversals of fortune were brought on by a terrible head for business and an absurd mania for the aristocracy. #history #indieauthor #themodernsalonniere #france #nonfiction#booksky
31.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proof that the sword is mightier than the pen litters history. A fairly famous case is the duel between Germaine de Staël and #Napoléon, whose war of words cost the author her most fervent desire—to stay in #Paris with the literary set. #history #culture #france #indieauthor #themodernsalonniere
31.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the post-Blues Brothers era, the phrase “elegant toga party” seems oxymoronic but telescope 230 years into the past and it is the perfect description for a soirée held by Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun in 1788. Her habitués had quite the time! #history #culture #indieauthor #themodernsalonniere #france
31.01.2026 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
– Gertrude Stein
@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to biographer Francesca Wade about her new book Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.
#books #biography #modernism @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
After reading Alan Montgomery’s book about the Antonine Wall I’m thinking of visiting the Hunterian - the oldest public museum in Scotland - at University of Glasgow to see their many resources about that Roman Monument- now a World Heritage Site
#archaeology
#history
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/co...
The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372
#art #history
#castles #architecture #Wales #Cymru #history
Dolwyddelan Castle, looking suitably wintry, built in the early half of the 13th Century by Llywelyn ab Iorweth - Llywelyn Fawr - Prince of Gwynedd, slap bang in the middle of #Eryri
(pic - Cadw)
🪨🏺The things you find when you are not looking for them…three Roman polished stone gaming pieces dating to 43-410 AD.
#Archaeology #Roman #Wirral #History #Heritage
For #PalacesAndGardens #GrandEstates. My favorite castle, the Alcázar de Segovia in Spain (1999). Once the home of the kings/queens of Castille. The city of Segovia generally is a magical place, too. #travel #photography #Segovia #Spain #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin #castles #castle #history
29.01.2026 15:55 — 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Inside a church with a two large columns with ribbed spiral patterns, holding up several arches that lead up to the roof
#MedievalMonday Two ribbed spiral columns from the original Romanesque church that is now Norwich Cathedral, founded by the Normans in 1096
Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood
📸 Mine
#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺
#TombTuesday
the Weiden Roman #tomb is today one of the best-preserved and most impressive burial sites from #Roman times north of the Alps. It shows a large part of its original furnishings - pure antiquity. 🧵 (1/2) 📸 A Thünker
#Archaeology #History #RomanArchaeology
This reminds me of Eudora Welty. Was it based on any particular writer?
31.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0