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going for the obvious "let her paint an inch thick" subject line
I don't know whether I will ever actually see Mary, Queen of Scots or The Favourite, but I am enjoying this thing where suddenly everyone is thinking about early modern queens:
The Real Story Behind Margot Robbie’s Wild Queen Elizabeth Makeup costume drama, tudor stuff, early modern grab bag, the renaissance is not for wimpsHealth and Safety in Tudor England
An Oxford study into "everyday life and fatal hazard" during the Tudor period, using coroners' reports:
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/features/health-and-safety-tudor-england#
Yikes:
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon of 11 March 1550, John ( Read more... )just in time for Halloween
link via Twitter:
Tower of London staff 'used magic to repel the forces of the Devil'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/tower-of-london-staff-used-magic-to-repel-the- ( Read more... )marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream
From Pepys' diary:
I went away […] to my Lord’s lodgings, where my brother Tom and Dr. Thomas Pepys were to speak with me. So I walked with them in the garden, and was very angry with them both for their going out of town without my knowledge; but they told me the business, which was to see a gentlewoman for a wife for Tom, of Mr. Cooke’s ( Read more... )cheery maps
After Crossrail's gruesome discovery we've mapped all the City of London's plague pits: Do you work near one?http://www.cityam.com/222190/after-crossrails-gruesome-discovery-weve-mapped-every-one-londons- ( Read more... )oh good
Now I'm reading old blog posts on the Plimoth Plantation website, this is totally a thing I need to be doing. Anyway, here's a post on doing 17th-century laundry:
http://blogs.plimoth.org/village/?p=74
And someone in the comments linked to this German painting: renaissance clothing, material culture, early modern grab bag, the renaissance is not for wimpsTudor trembling cucumbers
From an article about an exhibition on royal gardening, opening today at Buckingham Palace:
The 14th century gardening manual which warned Henry VIII that his cucumbers would tremble with fear in a thunderstorm, and a spectacular painting showing the beautiful garden he created at his Whitehall Palace, are going on display in an exhibition ( Read more... )on plague pits
If you find this sort of thing interesting (albeit macabre):
Death is All Around Us: The Plague Pits of Londonhttp://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2014/11/20/death-is-all-around-us-the-plague-pits-of-london/Read more... )17th-c mourning ring
via Twitter ( Read more... )digital Renaissance medical journals
for later perusal, and in case anyone else might be interested:
The Casebooks Project: A digital edition of Simon Forman’s & Richard Napier’s medical records 1596-1634
http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk