Tudor Times

Thank you to everyone who attended our 600th anniversary exhibition launch! We hope to see you again at our upcoming events.

Special thanks to Professor Caroline Barron for her fascinating talk on the original Guildhall Library in 1452.

View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Masolino da Panicale. Painter in Florence & Rome, master of perspective. As in this beautiful Annunciation from 1423.

📢NEW MANY HEADED MONSTER POST📢

A series of posts to celebrate the publication of a really important new study of work in #EarlyModern England, by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin.

Just off to fetch a 'burden of wood'. 🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 🗃️

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#HistoricalFiction #Tudors #Booksky 💙📚

A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.

Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip

Huzzah! An excuse to share the Elvis parody song I wrote for Rowan Atkinson to sing on Horrible Histories about the dissolution of the monasteries youtu.be/odZsn7Y-VRA?...

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

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🏺#archaeology

Bartomeu Olives 1575 portolan nautical chart of the Mediterranean includes a lovely elephant and the Red Sea (in red, obvs). Included is the parting of the sea created by God for Moses and the Israelites to cross, fleeing from the Egyptians, as stated in Exodus chapter 14. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The 2nd summit in our Royal Marriage Summit series is on 18 October bit.ly/4lifqMO The 3 talks will look at more royal marriages that shaped Europe: Mary of England and her two husbands, Louis XII & Charles Brandon, Emperor Charles V & Isabella of Portugal, and James V & Marie of Guise.

Sarah Davis is a multi-media artist exploring themes relating to the cyclical nature of recovery & renewal. She uses traditional making techniques with a historical resonance, like wood carving, miniature painting & illumination. See her at Modern Makers & Antiquaries. www.sal.org.uk/event/modern...

A courtyard next to Ely Cathedral, its historical buildings boasting large Romanesque arches.

Next to majestic Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire can be found the remains of its medieval monastery, including the 12th-century Prior's House and parts of the infirmary complex. These are now regarded as the oldest collection of monastic buildings still in daily use in Britain. #MedievalMonday

Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.

Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:

'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd

6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2

#MosaicMonday & the mosaics at Rockbourne Roman Villa

See more of Ancient Hampshire & Wiltshire in our Hillforts Episodes >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=qldg...

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A mournful personification of Winter, tightly wrapped in a cloak, depicted on a Roman mosaic floor

The powerful face of Winter on a mosaic discovered by George Tupper in 1811 @bignorvilla.bsky.social in West #Sussex

Wrapped in a hooded cloak, this mid 4th century portrait is the only one of the 4 Seasons on the summer dining room floor to survive

📷 Nov 2023

#MosaicMonday #Roman #WinterIsComing

18 October. The final talk in the second of Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

@ch4sebaker.bsky.social Hi Chase, thanks for following @thetudortimes.bsky.social Hope you enjoy our posts and site at tudortimes.co.uk

#OTD 1509 Sir Nicholas Vaux was appointed lieutenant of Guisnes Castle. He was the son of loyal Lancastrians, his mother, Katherine Peniston had followed Margaret of Anjou into exile & he had fought at Bosworth for Henry Tudor. His daughter m. George Throckmorton of Coughton Court bit.ly/1BF1PZn)

The final talk in the 2nd Royal Marriages Summit series bit.ly/4lifqMO will be delivered by Dr Michael Pearce who will be discussing the marriage of James V of Scotland to Marie of Guise – an important part of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France.

@aelredjohn.bsky.social Hi Aelred, thanks for following @thetudortimes.bsky.social Hope you enjoy our posts and site at tudortimes.co.uk

An ancient Roman coin with nicks missing around the edge and the profile of a man in the centre.

Have you ever heard of the emperor Domitianus?

This remarkable coin discovered on farmland near Chalgrove in 2003 provides proof that a man named Domitianus claimed to be emperor in the early 270s CE. It was fused in a mass of nearly five thousand coins within a partially intact Roman jar.

Lincoln’s Newport Arch was built by the Romans in the 3rd century and is still very much in use by vehicles today, some 1,800 years later- this is pretty amazing!

Black and white cat sitting on an early modern fragment of sculpture. In the background the ruins of the church belonging to the monastery with a clear blue sky.

Close up of a black and white cat resting on an early modern fragment of sculpture. In the background the ruins of the church belonging to the monastery with a clear blue sky.

Close up of a black and white cat resting on an early modern fragment of sculpture. In the background the ruins of the church belonging to the monastery with a clear blue sky.

Making a case for every museum to have a resident museum cat. Meet Nuno, who literally owns the ruins of the Carmo Convent in Lisbon!

The convent was destroyed in a fire after the great earthquake in 1755.

#earlymodern

Mosaic of an archangel at Hagia Sophia
From the depiction of the Prostrated Emperor over the door to the naos, which possibly depicts Leo VI (886-912)

Roman ruins in a rectangular open plan with a few stumps of columns remaining on either side and grass covering flagstones on the floor. Behind are a row of trees and in the distance some rugged mountains

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's the remains of the Basilica of the Five Martyrs in Salona, Croatia

It was built in the 4th century AD above the graves of five priests killed in Diocletian's persecution of the Christians

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanempire #photooftheday🏺

A very early representation of Francis of Assisi, who died in 1226, probably made before 1250. His feast is #otd 4 Oct. (Musée du Louvre)

Pumpkin Patch, watercolor, no, quick sketch.
#31DaysOfHalloween #pumpkin #pumpkinpatch #field #farmersfield #Autumn #futurejackolanterns #thegreatpumpkin #orangeorbs #piemakers #carvng #quicksketch #watercolor #ink #EastCoastKin #abstract

The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester (Corinium). Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester