#16thcentury — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #16thcentury, aggregated by home.social.
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Restorers expose trove of 16th-century nude murals in Rome that were covered by disapproving nuns – The Art Newspaper
On Rome’s Via dei Fori Imperiali, the main road leading to the Colosseum, a rundown-looking building partially covered…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #16thcentury #Heritage #murals #Museums&Heritage #Restoration
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Portrait of the Poetess Elpide (late 15th-early 16th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/25/poetess/
Follow My Photos on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/douglaswelch/1009224203503905432
#poetess #Elpide #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #16thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel
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Portrait of the Poetess Elpide (late 15th-early 16th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/25/poetess/
Follow My Photos on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/douglaswelch/1009224203503905432
#poetess #Elpide #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #16thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel
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Portrait of the Poetess Elpide (late 15th-early 16th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/25/poetess/
Follow My Photos on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/douglaswelch/1009224203503905432
#poetess #Elpide #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #16thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel
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Portrait of the Poetess Elpide (late 15th-early 16th century), Regional Museum of Messina, Sicily, Italy
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/09/25/poetess/
Follow My Photos on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/douglaswelch/1009224203503905432
#poetess #Elpide #sculpture #marble #15thcentury #16thcentury #art #museum #history #messina #sicily #italy #photography #travel
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Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – freeExplore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/oct/esther-inglis
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis
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Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – freeExplore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/oct/esther-inglis
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis
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Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – freeExplore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/oct/esther-inglis
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis
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Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – freeExplore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/oct/esther-inglis
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis
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“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry”
—Ashley Douglas explores Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse
https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-literature/meet-the-scottish-lesbian-poet/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ
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“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry”
—Ashley Douglas explores Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse
https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-literature/meet-the-scottish-lesbian-poet/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ
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“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry”
—Ashley Douglas explores Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse
https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-literature/meet-the-scottish-lesbian-poet/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ
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“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry”
—Ashley Douglas explores Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse
https://thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-literature/meet-the-scottish-lesbian-poet/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ
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The Angel Of Death takes the soul, in the form of a child, from the body of a dying man. Augsburg, 1508.
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The Angel Of Death takes the soul, in the form of a child, from the body of a dying man. Augsburg, 1508.
#Gothic #medieval #angel #16thCentury -
The Angel Of Death takes the soul, in the form of a child, from the body of a dying man. Augsburg, 1508.
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A young man with a death's head drawn by Lucas van Leyden, 1519.
#Gothic #skull #16thCentury #medieval #art -
A young man with a death's head drawn by Lucas van Leyden, 1519.
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Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in 𝘗𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
6/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in 𝘗𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
6/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in 𝘗𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
6/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024Dr Jennifer L Wood compares the historical Thomas Dallam presenting a self-playing organ to the Ottoman Sultan, with Lymond taking the horological Spinet there in 𝘗𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 (The Lymond Chronicles 4)
6/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/7
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/7
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/7
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Historian Yvonne Seale on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/7
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury
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Navy Researchers Scanned the Seafloor and Tracked a Ping. Then They Found a Staggering 500-Year-Old Shipwreck.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The French military accidentally discovered what has become the…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #16thcentury #autonomousunderwatervehicle #Frenchwaters #remotelyoperatedvehicles
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Palestrina -- Missa Hodie Christus natus est -- Kyrie --The Sixteen
https://youtu.be/ZT9nzSOL4fk?si=Imej-RhvxBHYmplZToday's random pick from my YouTube playlists.
#Palestrina #RenaissanceMusic #ChoralMusic #Mass #MissaHodie ChristusNatusEst #LiturgicalMusic #16thCentury
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Palestrina -- Missa Hodie Christus natus est -- Kyrie --The Sixteen
https://youtu.be/ZT9nzSOL4fk?si=Imej-RhvxBHYmplZToday's random pick from my YouTube playlists.
#Palestrina #RenaissanceMusic #ChoralMusic #Mass #MissaHodie ChristusNatusEst #LiturgicalMusic #16thCentury
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Palestrina -- Missa Hodie Christus natus est -- Kyrie --The Sixteen
https://youtu.be/ZT9nzSOL4fk?si=Imej-RhvxBHYmplZToday's random pick from my YouTube playlists.
#Palestrina #RenaissanceMusic #ChoralMusic #Mass #MissaHodie ChristusNatusEst #LiturgicalMusic #16thCentury
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Palestrina -- Missa Hodie Christus natus est -- Kyrie --The Sixteen
https://youtu.be/ZT9nzSOL4fk?si=Imej-RhvxBHYmplZToday's random pick from my YouTube playlists.
#Palestrina #RenaissanceMusic #ChoralMusic #Mass #MissaHodie ChristusNatusEst #LiturgicalMusic #16thCentury
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CW: miscarriage
Tak ma croon, an dinna fash –
aa yon wis ower fur me lang syne…—Gerda Stevenson, “The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots”
Published in QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland (Luath Press, 2018)Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne in favour of her infant son James #OTD, 24 July, 1567, after miscarrying twins
https://luath.co.uk/products/quines?variant=43448275206294
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy
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CW: miscarriage
Tak ma croon, an dinna fash –
aa yon wis ower fur me lang syne…—Gerda Stevenson, “The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots”
Published in QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland (Luath Press, 2018)Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne in favour of her infant son James #OTD, 24 July, 1567, after miscarrying twins
https://luath.co.uk/products/quines?variant=43448275206294
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy
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CW: miscarriage
Tak ma croon, an dinna fash –
aa yon wis ower fur me lang syne…—Gerda Stevenson, “The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots”
Published in QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland (Luath Press, 2018)Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne in favour of her infant son James #OTD, 24 July, 1567, after miscarrying twins
https://luath.co.uk/products/quines?variant=43448275206294
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy
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CW: miscarriage
Tak ma croon, an dinna fash –
aa yon wis ower fur me lang syne…—Gerda Stevenson, “The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots”
Published in QUINES: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland (Luath Press, 2018)Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne in favour of her infant son James #OTD, 24 July, 1567, after miscarrying twins
https://luath.co.uk/products/quines?variant=43448275206294
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy
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“In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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“In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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“In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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“In her new book With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, historian & translator Ashley Douglas places an analysis of Poem 49 at the heart of her thoughtful & often speculative reconstruction of this early modern woman’s queer life”
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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In the latest episode of Talking Tudors, Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Ashley Douglas about her new book, With My Own Hand: The Secret Life of Marie Maitland, Scotland's Sixteenth-Century Sappho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory
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Dr Morna Fleming looks at Mollie Hunter’s THE THIRTEENTH MEMBER, a novel of witchcraft, alchemy, & treason set in late 16th-century Scotland – presented at our 2021 Schools Conference
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g
#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury
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Dr Morna Fleming looks at Mollie Hunter’s THE THIRTEENTH MEMBER, a novel of witchcraft, alchemy, & treason set in late 16th-century Scotland – presented at our 2021 Schools Conference
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g
#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury
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Dr Morna Fleming looks at Mollie Hunter’s THE THIRTEENTH MEMBER, a novel of witchcraft, alchemy, & treason set in late 16th-century Scotland – presented at our 2021 Schools Conference
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g
#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury
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Dr Morna Fleming looks at Mollie Hunter’s THE THIRTEENTH MEMBER, a novel of witchcraft, alchemy, & treason set in late 16th-century Scotland – presented at our 2021 Schools Conference
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g
#Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury
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Ye auditoris most honorable that eris has gevin
Onto this uncouth aventur quhilk airly me happinnit,
Of thir thre wanton wiffis that I haif writtin heir,
Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif gif ye suld wed one?The full text of William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, with glosses, is available online here (number 84):
https://metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXybI55L0uN3khzq2NHYBP43YAlY
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Ye auditoris most honorable that eris has gevin
Onto this uncouth aventur quhilk airly me happinnit,
Of thir thre wanton wiffis that I haif writtin heir,
Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif gif ye suld wed one?The full text of William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, with glosses, is available online here (number 84):
https://metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXybI55L0uN3khzq2NHYBP43YAlY
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Ye auditoris most honorable that eris has gevin
Onto this uncouth aventur quhilk airly me happinnit,
Of thir thre wanton wiffis that I haif writtin heir,
Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif gif ye suld wed one?The full text of William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, with glosses, is available online here (number 84):
https://metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXybI55L0uN3khzq2NHYBP43YAlY
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Ye auditoris most honorable that eris has gevin
Onto this uncouth aventur quhilk airly me happinnit,
Of thir thre wanton wiffis that I haif writtin heir,
Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif gif ye suld wed one?The full text of William Dunbar’s “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, with glosses, is available online here (number 84):
https://metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXybI55L0uN3khzq2NHYBP43YAlY
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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“The women, dressed in elvish green, the color often conveying sexual associations in medieval poetry, have literally let down their hair, and while indulging in rich wine, they discuss the trials of marriage in frank detail”
2/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-dunbar
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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“The women, dressed in elvish green, the color often conveying sexual associations in medieval poetry, have literally let down their hair, and while indulging in rich wine, they discuss the trials of marriage in frank detail”
2/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-dunbar
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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“The women, dressed in elvish green, the color often conveying sexual associations in medieval poetry, have literally let down their hair, and while indulging in rich wine, they discuss the trials of marriage in frank detail”
2/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-dunbar
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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“The women, dressed in elvish green, the color often conveying sexual associations in medieval poetry, have literally let down their hair, and while indulging in rich wine, they discuss the trials of marriage in frank detail”
2/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-dunbar
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis,
I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past…—in “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, William Dunbar (c1465–1530) eavesdrops on three ladies discussing marriage. What begins as candid moves rapidly to obscene…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis,
I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past…—in “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, William Dunbar (c1465–1530) eavesdrops on three ladies discussing marriage. What begins as candid moves rapidly to obscene…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis,
I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past…—in “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, William Dunbar (c1465–1530) eavesdrops on three ladies discussing marriage. What begins as candid moves rapidly to obscene…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis,
I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past…—in “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo”, William Dunbar (c1465–1530) eavesdrops on three ladies discussing marriage. What begins as candid moves rapidly to obscene…
1/3
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏰🛡️ In 1315 #Scotland's King Robert the Bruce decided to lay siege to #England's Carlisle Castle but retreated after just 11 days.
The siege is a prime example of how #medieval European #castles could stand firm against enemy onslaughts with concentric walls, round flanking towers, and active gatehouse defenses.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/how-to-attack-and-defend-a-medieval-castle
#12thcentury #13thcentury #14thcentury #15thcentury #16thcentury #8thcentury #9thcentury #architecture #culture #defense #design #engineering #europe #government #history #money #politics #royalty #stone #tech #technology #tedEd #middleages #war #weapons #wood #tksst #video