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The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

The June issue of History Today goes on sale next week, so make sure you pick up the May issue while you still can!

Featuring: the 1926 #GeneralStrike, the #RifWar, #JamesII and the Exclusion Crisis, #15thcentury Iceland, and more.

https://www.historytoday.com/magazine

@Rosaliesmedievalwoman That's beautiful! I was going to ask if the lamb slides into the frame but see you've already posted great images at https://rosaliegilbert.com/thegilbertcollection_reliquaries.html

#15thCentury #pewter #reliquary

🎨 Portrait of a Young Scribe at Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, 1480 #15thcentury

📚 Hayo just finished reading The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan

One of those books that was exactly what I was looking for. The author presents a very balanced scientific overview of the interplay between climatic and socio-economic flows. It paints a disturbing picture of our very recent history and gives a glimpse of what could happen in the next few hundred years.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/library/book/the-little-ice-age-b466ab

#BookReview #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Science #Apocalypse #Nonfiction #History #Medieval #15thCentury #16thCentury #17thCentury #18thCentury #19thCentury

📜 Pages from the Childhood Notebook of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror), c. 1440 (Ages 7–10) The pages contain the Greek alphabet written by his tutor, alongside his own experimental imperial tughra designs, the Arabic alphabet, as well as various human and animal portraits. #15thCentury

St. Anne

According to Christian tradition, St. Anne was the mom of the Virgin Mary, wife of St. Joachim, & was Jesus’ maternal grandma.

Her name isn’t in the Bible’s canonical Gospels. In writing, Anne’s name, & Joachim’s come from New Testament apocrypha. The Gospel of Thomas (written circa 150 AD) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. She’s mentioned in the Quran, but not by name.

The Immaculate Conception was eventually made dogma by the Catholic Church following an increased devotion to Anne in the 12th century. In Eastern Christianity dedications start as early as 6th century.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Anne & Joachim are attributed to the title Ancestor of God. Both the Nativity of Mary & the Presentation of Mary are celebrated as 2 of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church.

The Dormition of Anne is also a minor feast in Eastern Christianity. In Lutheranism, it’s believed that Martin Luther chose to enter religious life as an Augustinian friar after invoking St. Anne was jeopardized by lightning.

In the 4th century, & in the 15th century, a belief arose that Mary was conceived of Anne without original sin. The Immaculate Conception is often confused with the Annunciation of the Incarnation (Mary’s virgin birth of Jesus). The 13th century Speculum Maius includes information regarding the life of St. Anne.

In the Eastern church, the veneration of Anne herself may go back as far as circa 550, when Justinian built a church in Constantinople in her honor. The earliest pictorial sign of her veneration in the West in an 8th century fresco in the church of Santa Maria Antique, Rome.

The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary had reached southern Italy by the 9th century. In the Latin Church, St. Anne wasn’t venerated. Except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the 13th century. A shrine at Douai (in northern France) was 1 of the early centers of devotion to St. Anne in the West.

The Anna Selbdritt was a type of iconography showing 3 generations of the “Holy Family,” St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, & Jesus (grandma, mom, son). This style of iconography emphasized the humanity of Jesus. It drew on the earlier conventions of the Seat of Wisdom. (The Seat of Wisdom is/are icons/sculptures that shows the Virgin Mary is seated on a throne with Jesus, as a kid, on her lap.) This was popular in northern Germany in the 1500s.

Two well-known shrines to St. Anne is that of Ste-Anne-d’Auray in Brittany (France) & that of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre near the city of Quebec. The number of pilgrims to the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre is the greatest of St. Anne’s Feast Day (July 26), & the Sunday before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8). In 1892, Pope Leo XIII sent a relic of St. Anne to the church.

By the middle of the 7th century, a distinct feast day, the Conception of St. Anne (Maternity of Holy Anne) celebrating Mary by St. Anne, was observed at the Monastery of St. Sabas.

It’s now known in the Greek Orthodox Church as the feast of “The Conception by St. Anne of the Most Holy Theotokos.” It’s celebrated on December 9th. In the Catholic Church, the Feast of Saints Anne & Joachim is celebrated on July 26. The alleged relics of St. Anne was brought from the Holy Land to Constantinople in 710 & was kept there in the church of St. Sophia as late as 1333.

During the 12th & 13th centuries, returning crusaders & pilgrims from the East brought St. Anne’s relics to some churches, including most famously those at Apt, in Provence, Ghent, & Chartres. St. Anne’s relics have been preserved & venerated in the many cathedrals & monasteries dedicated to her name.

For example, in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, & Greece in the semi-autonomous Mount Athos, & the city of Katerini. Duren has been the main place of pilgrimage for Anne since 1506, when Pope Julius II decreed that her relics should be kept there, after they were stolen from the church of St. Stephen in Mainz.

The Church of St. Anne in Beit Guvrin National Park was built by the Byzantines & the crusaders in the 12th century. This is known in Arabic as Khirbet Sandahanna, the mound of Maresha being called Tell Sandahanna.

St. Anne is the patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, moms, & educators. She’s also a patroness of horseback riders, cabinet-makers, & miners.

As the mom of Mary, this devotion to St. Anne as the patron of miners arises from the medieval comparison between Mary & Jesus & the precious metals: gold & silver. Anne’s womb was considered the source from which these precious metals were mined.

St. Anne is the patron saint of Brittany (France); Cuenca (Ecuador); Chinandega (Nicaragua); the Mi’kmaq people of Canada; Castelbuono (Sicily); Quebec (Canada); Santa Ana (California); Norwich (Connecticut); Detroit (Michigan); Adjunta (Puerto Rico); Santa Ana & Jucuaran (El Salvador); Berlin (New Hampshire); Santa Ana Pueblo, Seama, & Taos (New Mexico); Chiclana de la Frontera, Marsaskala, Tuadela, Atarfe & Fasnia (Spain); Town of Sta Ana Province of Pampanga, Molo, Iloilo City, Balasan; Iloilo, Hagnoy, Santa Ana, Taguig City, St. Anne Shrine, Malicboy, Pagbilao, Quezon, & Malinao, Albay (Philippines); Santana (Brazil); St. Anne (Illinois); Sainte Anne Island; Baie Sainte Anne & Praslin Island (Seychelles); Bukit Mertajam & Port Klang (Malaysia); Kl’ucove (Slovakia) & South Vietnam.

The parish church of Vatican City is Sant’ Anna dei Palafrenieri. There’s a shrine dedicated to St. Anne in the Woods in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Anne is also revered in Islam, recognized as a highly spiritual woman & as the mom of Mary. She’s not named in the Quran. She’s called “the wife of Imran.” The Quran describes her remaining childless until old age. One day, Anne saw a bird feeding its young while sitting in the shade of a tree, which awakened her desire to have kids of her own.

She prayed for a kid & eventually conceived. Imran, her husband, died before the kid was born. Anne expected the unborn kid to be a boy, so she vowed to dedicate “him” to isolation & service in the Second Temple.

Anne had a daughter (Mary) instead. Anne named her: Mary. Anne’s words upon delivering Mary reflect as a great mystic, realizing that while she’d had wanted a son, this daughter was God’s gift to her.

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In to thir dirk and drublie dayis,
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…

—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”

Full text with glosses available online (poem no. 15)

https://metseditions.org/read/Kk2rqEDflvYQH57qHG5EqhWNP2p8v3y

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #winter #15thcentury #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage

Wir zogen in das Feld, (1539-1556CE), Germany/Italy

Conntext: Wir zogen in das Feld ("We marched towards the battlefields") comes from a five-part collection of songs, the Frische teutsche Liedlein written and published in 1539-1556 by the doctor, composer and song collector Georg Forster.

The song is sung in German with scatterings of Italian, it’s about Landsknecht’s (Early German Mercenaries) fighting for their Italian employers during the Italian Wars

Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair

Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17372009.love-is-all-you-need-remembering-the-kings-quair/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #lovepoetry #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage #15thcentury #Scotstober

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social I see info on the Nao Santa María here: https://www.fundacionnaovictoria.org/history-nao-santa-maria/

#15thCentury #ChristopherColumbus #ReplicaShip #Ipswich

The humanist and later Pope Pius II visited Vienna in the 1450s and was apparently shocked at what he encountered.

#medievalsexuality #medievalsky #latemedieval #middleages #mittelalter #medievalwomen #14thcentury #15thcentury #livinghistory #reenactment

@RoyReed @Pacoulmag Super photos & info, thank you both!

Roy, your panoramas & details are invaluable; what an amazing website. I'm looking forward to some armchair exploration, & my next visit to #Cornwall!

#15thCentury #WallPaintings #Breage #medieval #churches @medievodons

🎨 Moonlight in Istanbul, 1910s "Tears flowed from my eyes like vast seas, Friends saw much, yet my fortune found no peace. For your wandering image to cross my flood of tears, My brows are a bridge, with one pillar and two arches." ✏️ Mehmed Neşrî, 15th Century #Poem #Poetry #15thCentury

Yesterday (14th August) in 1473, Margaret Pole née Plantagenet, cousin to Elizabeth of York, was born at Farleigh Castle, Somerset.

#Somerset #FarleighCastle #15thcentury #Plantagenet
#EnglishHeritage #histodon

Image by lisby1 on flkr.

@archaeology Thanks for the link!
Thanks too @sapiens for the link to Rolf's page, with this year's archaeological report & more:
https://su-se.academia.edu/RolfWarming

#15thCentury #shipwreck #Gripen #Griphund #Gribshunden #MaritimeArchaeology #Sweden

Hey, psssst! Does anyone care for some... fake roast venison? It's medieval! And super, super sweet! Aaand it is fancy - it brings it's own BLING! (I mean gilded almonds! Whoa!) And basically it's vegan, because it is a christian Lenten dish from the 1. printed German Cookbook from 1485. Have a look at it (and at my fail during cooking this. 😅). Experimental archaeology in action.

https://youtu.be/YxXpQYztqnw

My YT-Channel exists since.. mh.. 3 weeks? So, thanks for boosts and for following me! 🥰 Your actions feed my blogs!

Oh, and happy #easter and #TransDayOfVisibility! 🐇

#food #reenactment #LivingHistory #ExperimentalArchaeology #LentenDish #MedievalCooking #Medieval #MedievalFood #vegan #veganRecipe #cookbook #medievalcookbook #medievalmanuscript #küchenmeisterei #Kuchemeysterey #GermanCookbuch #GermanFood #Fastenspeise #Fastenzeit #Mittelalterküche #Spätmittelalter #15thCentury #15tesjahrhundert #ExperimentelleArchäologie

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@foodblogger_de
@kochen
@histodons

#WordOfTheDay: obloquy (n.)

mid-15c., obloquie, "evil speaking, slander, calumny, derogatory remarks," from Medieval Latin obloquium "speaking against, contradiction," from Latin obloqui "to speak against, contradict," from ob "against" (see ob-) + loqui "to speak," from PIE root *tolkw- "to speak." Related: Obloquious.

#Citation: Harper Douglas, “Etymology of obloquy,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed March 3, 2024, https://www.etymonline.com/word/obloquy.

#English #Medieval #Latin #Language #Languages #Word #Words #Etymology #Dictionary #Lexicon #C15th #15thcentury

Apparently today is National Hat Day, so here is 15th Century French song:
Ballade sur la mode des hauts bonnets
[A ballad on the fashion of tall hats]
From
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040428q/f7.item

#otd #earlymusic #historicalfashion #headgear #hat #hats #nationalhatday #histodon #histodons #woodcut #ballad #song #medieval #15thCentury

@oysteib Thanks for fascinating story & great images!
#15thCentury #privateer #pirate #HanseaticLeague #Fowey #Cornwall #Copenhagen #Bergen #Wismar #Stralsund #Tallinn #stockfish #cog @medievodons

"More than 500 years underground, gone through cleaning, conservation, soaked in wax and freeze-dried - and yet these isotope signatures are still in the timbers... vessels and timber structures that previously didn't date with traditional ring dendrochronology can now potentially be dated with oxygen isotope or stable isotope dendrochronology."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67302907
H/T @iuculano
#dendrochronology #NewportShip #15thCentury #MedievalShip #MaritimeHistory #medieval @medievodons @histodons

An excellent overview by @caitlinrgreen, with a distribution map & links for key finds & research: https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/st-nicholas-or-boy-bishop-tokens-in.html
The #BritishMuseum site notes that the #15thCentury badge found at #BuryStEdmunds may have been brought back by a pilgrim from one of the continental shrines, such as #Bari in Italy.
Happy #Sinterklaas!
🧵 4/4 #StNicholas #StoweBreviary #PilgrimBadge #pilgrim #badge

Something for #StCeciliasDay
Detail from an #15thCentury Italian choirbook showing an illuminated letter C with #StCecilia playing the psaltery, with other female musicians playing #lute & #rebec.
V&A Museum
#otd #onthisday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance
#histodon #histodons @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodons @histodon

@Catawu @skua Maybe #meteorite experts could chip in here... ?
@Nonog @JenLucPiquant

#15thCentury #ArtHistory #axe #HandAxe #flint #thunderstone #meteorites

For today what I am calling "an urban 'café'" #poem of mine published in Jan. at #WombwellRainbow UK which is Paul Brookes wondrous website. The poem riffs off an historic #Jewish #lyric form, the #Endecha from #15thCentury #Spain. Often #laments, #Endecha is trad in #form., 3 lines of 7 syllables, 4 lines a/b/c/b rhyme #stanza, line 4, 11 syllables. TY in advance. #writers #writing Please click on image window for the whole poem.

Book of hours, produced in England ca. 1450-1460 CE (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) #Bookofhours #manuscript #15thcentury #PennLibraries

The 16 children of #JoanBeaufort included 3 duchesses, 1 earl, 1 countess, 3 barons, 1 baroness, 1 bishop & a nun; grandchildren later included #WarwickTheKingmaker & 2 kings. Joan had been born illegitimate. Despite a lifesize memorial in #Staindrop alongside her husband #RalphNeville, she chose to be buried in #LincolnCathedral with her mother #KatherineSwynford, long-term mistress & eventually wife of #JohnOfGaunt. 🧵 11/
#15thCentury #genealogy #FamilyHistory #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Bardi Altarpiece) by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Altarpiece #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt #VirginMary #VirginAndChild #Jesus #Christ #JesusChrist #BabyJesus #ChristChild #Saints

The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Bardi Altarpiece) by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Altarpiece #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt #VirginMary #VirginAndChild #Jesus #Christ #JesusChrist #BabyJesus #ChristChild #Saints

The Virgin and Child Enthroned (Bardi Altarpiece) by Sandro Botticelli, 1484-1485.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Altarpiece #ReligiousArt #ChristianArt #VirginMary #VirginAndChild #Jesus #Christ #JesusChrist #BabyJesus #ChristChild #Saints

#PhilippaOfLancaster, eldest daughter of #JohnOfGaunt, is remembered as a devoted wife, mother, & Queen of #Portugal. She was buried in the monastery at #Batalha, founded by her husband King João I in thanks for victory there, & they were later reinterred together in a magnificent joint tomb. This reign was the beginning of Portugal’s rise to prosperity & global influence, their children renowned as the #IllustriousGeneration.

#medieval #tomb #15thCentury #medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

I've been enjoying 'The Granddaughters of Edward III' by #KathrynWarner, thanks to a review copy from #NetGalley. Two queens, several scandals, descendants with competing claims leading to the #WarsOfTheRoses. Many history books focus on half the population; examining what we know of the women provides new perspective. 🧵 1/

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Granddaughters-of-Edward-III-Hardback/p/22445

#NewBook #medieval #biography #prosopography #MedievalWomen #14thCentury #15thCentury #medievodons @medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1480.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Portrait #FemalePortrait #SimonettaVespucci #Nobility

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1480.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Portrait #FemalePortrait #SimonettaVespucci #Nobility

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci by Sandro Botticelli, 1475-1480.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #ItalianArtist #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #Portrait #FemalePortrait #SimonettaVespucci #Nobility

The Spring by Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s or early 1480s.

#ClassicArt #Art #Painting #PublicDomain #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ItalianArtist #Primavera #Spring #Mythology #MythologicalArt #ClassicalMythology #GreekMythology #AllegoricalArt

The Spring by Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s or early 1480s.

#ClassicArt #Art #Artwork #Painting #PublicDomain #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ItalianArt #Primavera #Spring #Mythology #ClassicalMythology #GreekMythology

The Spring by Sandro Botticelli, late 1470s or early 1480s.

#ClassicArt #Art #Artwork #Painting #PublicDomain #15thCentury #15thCenturyArt #Renaissance #RenaissanceArt #ItalianRenaissance #ItalianArt #Primavera #Spring #Mythology #ClassicalMythology #GreekMythology

@CandaceRobbAuthor This find is so interesting! The #LadyOfClare supported the #anchoress Anne de Lexeden, & her records of expenditure also give some insight into the reclusive lifestyle in the #MiddleAges.

Extract from 'For Her Good Estate' by Frances A. Underhill, p.162 of the 2020 edition: https://barnes1.net/FHGE/

#14thCentury #15thCentury #anchorite #hermit #medieval #medievodons #histodons @medievodons

Fought #OTD (well, 2 or 3rd Feb - sources differ) 1461, the Battle of Mortimer's Cross.

According to several chroniclers, the day before the battle a meteorological phenomenon, a parhelion, appeared...☀️
Find out what this meant on our blog 👇 http://ow.ly/yhDA50ybHq3

@histodon #Mortimer #Astronomy #15thCentury

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the best-known accounts of a late medieval pilgrimage. In this blog, Dr Hannes Kleineke reflects on the enjoyment parliamentarians derived from a 15thC. pilgrimage👇

https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/were-all-going-on-a-summer-pilgrimage/

@histodons @histodon #15thCentury #Pilgrimage #Canterbury #Medieval #MPMonday

The #epitaph of the #blind #musician and #composer Conrad #Paumann who died #onthisday in 1473.
From the #Frauenkirche in #Munich.
#earlymusic #harp #lute #organ #medieval #renaissance #music #rebec #musicalinstruments #15thCentury #fifteenthcentury #otd #onthisdayinhistory
@histodons #histodons #histodon

The wine-trading #NewportShip, which sank in the #RiverUsk c.1469, has just returned to #Newport - in 2,500 pieces, after #TimberConservation in Portsmouth by the #MaryRose team. Now to find a site for reassembly & display of this great future tourist attraction! Superb storytelling & imagery in the 3 min video at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64151535

#MedievalShip #ShipConstruction #MaritimeHistory #archaeology #15thCentury #WineTrade #NewportCastle #medieval #jigsaw #medievodons @medievodons

On the 4th January 1483, Francis Lovell was created Viscount Lovell, however, his estates including his home in Oxfordshire, and titles would be the subject of an attainder in 1487 following the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Stoke Field. One of his other titles lost after the battle was Baron d'Ayncourt.

The d'Ayncourt barony would lay in abeyance until the 17th century when it was granted to Francis Leke. Charles Tennyson, the uncle of Alfred, Lord Tennyson would try unsuccessfully to get his hands on it in the 18th century.

#15thcentury #warsoftheroses #francislovell #enobled #battleofstokefield #medieval #battlefields #attainted #localhistory #tennyson #oxfordshire

On the 30th of December in 1460 after the Battle of Wakefield, Edmund Earl of Rutland, the son of Richard Duke of York was executed in an act of revenge. It is said that he was captured on a bridge in the town where the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin stood.

#15thcentury #yorkshire #wakefield #sandalcastle #castle #warsoftheroses #richarddukeofyork #battlefields #medieval #revenge

In the afternoon of the 30th December 1460, the Battle of Wakefield took place, this battle brought an end to the lives of Richard, Duke of York and his second eldest son Edmund, Earl of Rutland.

#15thcentury #yorkshire #wakefield #sandalcastle #castle #warsoftheroses #richarddukeofyork #battlefields #medieval