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  1. 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
    europesays.com/italy/51529/

  2. Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
    6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – free

    Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts

    visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis

  3. Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
    6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – free

    Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts

    visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis

  4. Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
    6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – free

    Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts

    visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis

  5. Scottish Workmanship at the Jacobean & Tudor Courts
    6 October, 1–1:50pm, Oxford – free

    Explore the arts of calligraphy, embroidery & bookbinding as practised in the 16th & 17th centuries by Esther Inglis, creator of exquisite miniature manuscripts

    visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/

    #Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Tudor #Jacobean #manuscript #calligraphy #embroidery #bookbinding #EstherInglis

  6. “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

    thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ

  7. “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

    thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ

  8. “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

    thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ

  9. “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

    thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #loevepoetry #manuscript #16thcentury #renaissance #earlymodern #queerliterature #queerpoetry #sapphic #lesbian #LGBTQ

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. @bookstodon

    Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
    The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024

    Dr 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  14. @bookstodon

    Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
    The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024

    Dr 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  15. @bookstodon

    Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
    The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024

    Dr 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  16. @bookstodon

    Musical Diplomacy on the Global Stage: Dallam's Organ & Lymond's Spinet
    The Dorothy Dunnett Society lecture 2024

    Dr 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DQE8uW6poo

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  17. @bookstodon

    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

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  18. @bookstodon

    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

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  19. @bookstodon

    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

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  20. @bookstodon

    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

    yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/1

    #Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction #novel #history #16thcentury

  21. 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
    europesays.com/france/65771/

  22. 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

    luath.co.uk/products/quines?va

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy

  23. 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

    luath.co.uk/products/quines?va

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy

  24. 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

    luath.co.uk/products/quines?va

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy

  25. 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

    luath.co.uk/products/quines?va

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #history #MaryQueenofScots #16thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #monarchy

  26. “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”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  27. “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”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  28. “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”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  29. “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”

    @litstudies

    theconversation.com/the-16th-c

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  30. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  31. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  32. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  33. 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

    youtube.com/watch?v=fgC3ivcGoOw

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #16thcentury #EarlyModern #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #QueerHistory

  34. @bookstodon

    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

    youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g

    #Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury

  35. @bookstodon

    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

    youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g

    #Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury

  36. @bookstodon

    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

    youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g

    #Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury

  37. @bookstodon

    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

    youtube.com/watch?v=oKHL58len-g

    #Scottish #literature #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit #YA #fantasy #historicalfiction #folklore #witchcraft #16thcentury

  38. 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):

    metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXyb

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  39. 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):

    metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXyb

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  40. 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):

    metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXyb

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  41. 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):

    metseditions.org/read/aWPKyXyb

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  42. “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

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/wil

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  43. “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

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/wil

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  44. “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

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/wil

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  45. “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

    poetryfoundation.org/poets/wil

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #satire #medieval #15thcentury #16thcentury #midsummer

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 💁🏻‍♀️ 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: seethis.tv/post/how-to-attack-

    #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