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  1. The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

  2. The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

  3. The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

  4. The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

  5. The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

  6. #MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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  7. #MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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  8. #MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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  9. #MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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  10. #MarieDeStPol founded #PembrokeCollege Cambridge. She’s shown here with #StCecilia, patron of musicians, whose feast is celebrated on 22 Nov.
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  11. In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
    🧵 1/3 @medievodons

    #medieval #choir #choral #music #CambridgeUniversity

  12. In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
    🧵 1/3 @medievodons

    #medieval #choir #choral #music #CambridgeUniversity

  13. In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
    🧵 1/3 @medievodons

    #medieval #choir #choral #music #CambridgeUniversity

  14. In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
    🧵 1/3 @medievodons

    #medieval #choir #choral #music #CambridgeUniversity

  15. In her 1359 statutes for #ClareCollege Cambridge, the #LadyOfClare stipulated a schedule for religious services, including many "with notes"– illustrated here in the sumptuous breviary of her close friend #MarieDeStPol.
    🧵 1/3 @medievodons

    #medieval #choir #choral #music #CambridgeUniversity

  16. 🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.

    🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s

    #OTD #NameDay #medieval

  17. 🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.

    🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s

    #OTD #NameDay #medieval

  18. 🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.

    🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s

    #OTD #NameDay #medieval

  19. 🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.

    🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s

    #OTD #NameDay #medieval

  20. 🧵 PS: Louis IX, the only French king to be canonized, died on 25 Aug 1270.

    🎨 with his mother, Blanche of Castile, in the Bible of St Louis, 1226-34; in the Breviary of #MarieDeStPol, c.1330s

    #OTD #NameDay #medieval

  21. Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.

    🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
    @medievodons
    #MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval

  22. Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.

    🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
    @medievodons
    #MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval

  23. Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.

    🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
    @medievodons
    #MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval

  24. Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.

    🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
    @medievodons
    #MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval

  25. Aug 15th is the Feast of the Assumption. In 1358 the Lady of Clare celebrated with a banquet at her London townhouse; her guests were the Minoress community of Franciscan nuns, & 28-year old Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince.

    🎨 from artworks she would have seen: the altar frontal made for Blackfriars Thetford or Norwich, & the Breviary of Marie de St Pol.
    @medievodons
    #MedievalArt #Assumption #LadyOfClare #MarieDeStPol #14thCentury #medieval

  26. #MarieDeStPol in 1336 granted the manor of Denny to the Minoress nuns of flood-prone Waterbeach. She later moved the community to Denny Abbey, from which the Templars had been evicted some decades earlier:
    production.english-heritage.or
    She rebuilt, with handsome new buildings, & a lovely upper-floor room for her own use.
    10 miles north of #Cambridge & well worth visiting:
    dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk/con 🧵 2/

  27. #MarieDeStPol in 1336 granted the manor of Denny to the Minoress nuns of flood-prone Waterbeach. She later moved the community to Denny Abbey, from which the Templars had been evicted some decades earlier:
    production.english-heritage.or
    She rebuilt, with handsome new buildings, & a lovely upper-floor room for her own use.
    10 miles north of #Cambridge & well worth visiting:
    dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk/con 🧵 2/

  28. #MarieDeStPol in 1336 granted the manor of Denny to the Minoress nuns of flood-prone Waterbeach. She later moved the community to Denny Abbey, from which the Templars had been evicted some decades earlier:
    production.english-heritage.or
    She rebuilt, with handsome new buildings, & a lovely upper-floor room for her own use.
    10 miles north of #Cambridge & well worth visiting:
    dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk/con 🧵 2/

  29. #MarieDeStPol in 1336 granted the manor of Denny to the Minoress nuns of flood-prone Waterbeach. She later moved the community to Denny Abbey, from which the Templars had been evicted some decades earlier:
    production.english-heritage.or
    She rebuilt, with handsome new buildings, & a lovely upper-floor room for her own use.
    10 miles north of #Cambridge & well worth visiting:
    dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk/con 🧵 2/

  30. #MarieDeStPol in 1336 granted the manor of Denny to the Minoress nuns of flood-prone Waterbeach. She later moved the community to Denny Abbey, from which the Templars had been evicted some decades earlier:
    production.english-heritage.or
    She rebuilt, with handsome new buildings, & a lovely upper-floor room for her own use.
    10 miles north of #Cambridge & well worth visiting:
    dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk/con 🧵 2/

  31. Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3

    📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-; barnes1.net/seal/

    #medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons

  32. Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3

    📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-; barnes1.net/seal/

    #medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons

  33. Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3

    📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-; barnes1.net/seal/

    #medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons

  34. Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3

    📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-; barnes1.net/seal/

    #medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons

  35. Today is the feast of St John the Apostle, seen here with eagle and palm in the silver seal matrix of #ClareCollege (the half-figure is 8mm high), & in the sumptuous Breviary of Marie de St Pol, best friend of the #LadyOfClare. 🧵 1/3

    📷 #CambridgeUniversity #UL MS Dd.5.5 f.217v cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-; barnes1.net/seal/

    #medieval #craftsmanship #14thCentury #silversmith #StJohn #manuscript #illumination #MarieDeStPol @medievodons

  36. @hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.

    Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯

    My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.

    🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-
    #medieval #manuscript

  37. @hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.

    Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯

    My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.

    🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-
    #medieval #manuscript

  38. @hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.

    Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯

    My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.

    🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-
    #medieval #manuscript

  39. @hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.

    Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯

    My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.

    🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-
    #medieval #manuscript

  40. @hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.

    Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯

    My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.

    🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-
    #medieval #manuscript