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Cresent shaped pond at the pageant at Elvetham in 1591.
A sham battle that dissolves into recognition and indeed exaltation of Elizabeth as veritable incarnation of peace. Her energizing, liberating presence engenders harmony among men as it does among nature,...
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The Royal Coat of Arms. 16c. Tudors
The bright heraldry and armorial bearings of the chivalric age carried over into the new era of the monarchies. They not only afforded color and pageantry to drab lives unrelieved by television, travel,...
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Map of London, early 1570's. Tudors. 16c. Elizabeth I.
If William Shakespeare went directly to London from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, he could have taken either the Oxford road or the route through Banbury. In any case he would have approached London...
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St Francis. 13c.
A "little poor man, of mean stature and humble aspect, propped it up with his own back, and thus saved it from falling" -- Pope Innocent III's dream of the collapsing Lateran Basilica and its preservation...
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Francois Avril, Manuscript Painting at the Court of France.
Fr Mss-1 NEW TEST DATA Hours of Jeanne de Navarre, fol. 53. The annunciation to the shepherds. Illustration by Jean Le Noir, disciple of Pucelle, although probably done ear or after death of Pucelle in...
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Martin Luther.
Contemporary engraving of Martin Luther.
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Death Bed of Henry VIII
Anti-papal allegory, probably 1548, after Cranmer ordered destruction of all religious images. To Edward's left is Somerset and below, the Council: Northumberland, Cranmer and Bedford.
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Palace
Nonesuch Palace in the 17c.
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Aristocracy. 14c 15c Knighthood. Chivalry. Chivalric Code.
Tristan-1 Meeting of friends in a Breton Forest. "In the misty Breton forests, rarely did a day go by without some encounter in which one's knightly honor had to be defended by force of arms or one had...
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Londinium arch at Fenchurch, 1604. Royal entry in London. 17c 16c
Fr. Stephen Harrison, Arches of Triumph, London, 1604, in
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Agriculture. 14c. Peasantry. Farming. Chaucer and his world
Chaucer-2 Medieval Fields, ridge and furrow plowing, NE of Podbury, Buckinghamshire.
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Coat of Arms - More .Tudors. 16c.
Most of the people of Elizabethan London would have recognized the coats of arms shown here as they were published in an atlas about 1590. The first sixty-five represent the nobility--or "high degree"--of...
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Nave of St. Paul's--16thc.
If he could get past the bookstalls, Shakespeare may have gone inside to gaze at the lofty Gothic arches of this famous old church. The stately but empty view of the nave shown here is misleading, for...
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Abbot Suger at High Altar of St Denis.Clerical wealth. 15c. 12c.
"Forty-two marks of gold, a multifarious wealth of precious gems, jacinths, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and topazes, and an array of large pearls.' Abbot Suger's proud description of the high altar of...
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14c. Courtly love. women.
Fr Mss-2 Guillaume de Machaut, Le Remede de Fortune. Fol . 23. The Lover Contemplates his Lady. Done about 1350, its realism, tempered with courtly elegance, in this as well as in other scenes, marks a...
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Siege of Florence
Vasari's painting on the siege of Florence in 1530, during which Catherine de Medici was virtually a prisoner.
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Four Evangelists stoning the Pope. Protestants. Catholics. Reformation. 16c.
Giralmo da Treviso. Painting of the Four Evangelists stoning the Pope. Anti-papal propaganda.
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02tristan
Aristocracy. Rebellion. Monarchy. 14c 15c.
Tristan-2 King Mark, restrained from striking unarmed man. Royalty. Revenge. Chivalric Code. Chivalry. "King Mark and his retinue, still hunting for Tristan, were moving along a valley when they were suddenly...
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Italian pageant at Gracechurch Street, 1604.16c 17c
Royal Entry in London. From Stephen Harrison, Arches of Triumph, London 1604, in 16th and 17th c.
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14c. Recreation, Leisure, Community, Medieval, Peasantry. Chaucer and his world
Chaucer-3 Tavern Scene.
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