#Norman England
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
16 notes
·
View notes
Text
source
146 notes
·
View notes
Video
Wells Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle and seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose cathedra it holds as mother church of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. Built in 1176–1450 to replace an earlier church on the site since 705, it is moderately sized for an English cathedral. Its broad west front and large central tower are dominant features. It has been called "unquestionably one of the most beautiful" and "most poetic" of English cathedrals
#Wells#Wells Somerset#Wells Cathedral#Wells Cathedral Somerset#Somerset#Somerset England#Medieval#Medieval Architecture#Medieval England#Gothic#Gothic Architecture#Gothic Cathedrals#Architecture#Norman England#Norman Architecture#Norman Conquest#Cathedrals#Cathedral#Anglican#Anglican Church#Church Of England#Churches#Church#Religion#Religious#Travel#Travelling#Staycations#Vacations#Vacation
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Wreck of the Blanche Nef — by Princess Louise
#princess louise#art#blanche nef#white ship#shipwreck#normandy#england#barfleur#victorian#english#british#norman#normans#history#medieval#middle ages#william ætheling#matilda fitzroy#william adelin#aristocracy#europe#european#english channel#ship#nobles#royalty#nobility#tragedy#watercolour#boat
95 notes
·
View notes
Text
Paul Sandby RA (English, 1731-1809) The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House, ca.1765 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
#Paul Sandby#English#English art#England#landscape art#landscape#architectural art#art#fine art#european art#classical art#europe#european#fine arts#oil painting#europa#england#1700s#the norman gate and deputy governor's house
184 notes
·
View notes
Text
New forest, Hampshire, England, 1936 - by Norman C. Deck (1882 - 1980), Australian
153 notes
·
View notes
Text
Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.
#elizabeth woodville#nobody was doing it like her#I wanted to add more things (eg: propaganda casting her as a transgressive figure and a threat to established orders; the way we'll never#truly Know her as she's been constantly rewritten across history) but ofc neither are unique to her or any other historical woman#my post#wars of the roses#don't reblog these tags but - the thing about Elizabeth is that she kept winning and losing at the same time#She rose higher and fell harder (in 1483-85) than anyone else in the late 15th century#From 1461 she was never ever at lasting peace - her widowhood and the crisis of 1469-71 and the actual terrible nightmare of 1483-85 and#Simnel's rebellion against her family and the fact that her birth family kept dying with her#and then she herself died right around the time yet another Pretender was stirring and threatening her children. That's...A Lot.#Imho Elizabeth was THE adaptor of the Wars of the Roses - she repeatedly found herself in highly anomalous and#unprecedented situations and just had to survive and adjust every single time#But that's just...never talked about when it comes to her#There are so many aspects of her life that are potentially fascinating yet completely unexplored in scholarship or media:#Her official appointment in royal councils; her position as the first Englishwoman post the Norman Conquest to be crowned queen#and what that actually MEANT for her; an actual examination of the propaganda against her; how she both foreshadowed and set a precedent#for Henry VIII's english queens; etc#There hasn't even been a proper reassessment of her role in 1483-85 TILL DATE despite it being one of the most wildly contested#periods in medieval England#lol I guess that's what drew me to Elizabeth in the first place - there's a fundamental lack of interest or acknowledgement in what was#actually happening with her and how it may have affected her. There's SO MUCH we can talk about but historians have repeatedly#stuck to the basics - and even then not well#I guess I have more things to write about on this blog then ((assuming I ever ever find the energy)#also to be clear while the Yorkists did 'eat themselves alive' they also Won - the crisis of 1483-85 was an internal conflict within#the dynasty that was not related to the events that ended in 1471 (which resulted in Edward IV's victory)#Henry Tudor was a figurehead for Edwardian Yorkists who specifically raised him as a claimant and were the ones who supported him#specifically as the husband of Elizabeth of York (swearing him as king only after he publicly swore to marry her)#Richard's defeat at Bosworth had *nothing* to do with 'York VS Lancaster' - it was the victory of one Yorkist faction against another#But yes the traditional line of succession was broken by Richard's betrayal and the male dynastic line was ultimately extinguished.
61 notes
·
View notes
Photo
The Norman conquest of England, 11th century.
by atlas_cartography
133 notes
·
View notes
Text
Carved Norman doorway at Church Kilpeck, Herefordshire, ENGLAND
483 notes
·
View notes
Text
This is most certainly NOT how the Norman Invasion looked like!!! 😞
🤓👆
The Normans were actually mostly Viking descendants, with William himself being a descendant of one such Viking. The French had little to no involvement, and the Duchy of Normandy had been given to the Vikings decades prior.
This is for THOSE anti-frukers that use the arguement of "oh france conquered and raised england so they can't be shipped" like I'm pretty fucking sure Francypants is NOT William I??? The French never really got close to conquering England, despite what they might tell you — Remember, French people are not to be trusted — and, if anything, it was actually England that nearly conquered them!
Overall, I spend too much time researching English history (;´д`)
#(;´д`)#hetalia#aph england#aph france#fruk#for anti-frukers!!_@<!#norman invasion#norman conquest#british history
23 notes
·
View notes
Text
Day 27: Marie de France, poet and (maybe) abbess. Aside from her name and place of origin, her identity is unknown, though she was potentially a relative of King Henry II of England and/or an abbess. She adapted Breton narrative poems into French verse and translated Aesop’s Fables from Old English.
#grayjoytober2024#marie de france#12th century#historical women#history art#traditional art#angevin empire#anglo norman#english tag#norman tag#france tag#medieval england#inktober#inktober 2024#drawtober#drawtober 2024
31 notes
·
View notes
Text
#ohhh ueah#william the conqueror#william the bastard#william I of england#king harold II#english history#norman conquest#ermmm what the scallop#artists on tumblr#silly drawing#art#digital illustration#shitpost
22 notes
·
View notes
Text
70 notes
·
View notes
Video
Wells Cathedral by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Wells Cathedral in Somerset England. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral
#Wells#Wells Cathedral#Cathedrals#Cathedral#Architecture#Anglican#Anglican Church#Anglo Norman#Anglicanism#Medieval#Medieval Architecture#Medieval Churhes#Norman England#Norman Architecture#Norman#Gothic#Gothic Architecture#Gothic Cathedral#Gothic Cathedrals#Gothic Style#Churches#Church Of England#Church#Somerset#Wells Somerset#England#English#English Heritage#English History#British History
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Alnwick Castle by Canaletto
#canaletto#art#alnwick castle#england#castle#country house#castles#english#northumberland#medieval#middle ages#history#alnwick#architecture#landscape#norman#normans#europe#european
303 notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm cooked tomorrow. There's no way I can complete two whole history papers from completely different time periods in an hours time limit. I'm so cooked.
#I want the AQA and Edexcel exam authors to be executed#I revised so much history too during half term and none of that sunk in whatsoever#whoever decided for students to write about both the cold war and norman england in one sitting CRITICALLY deserves to be exiled from the U#ESPECIALLY for that criminal superpower relations topic#I'm still revising for it though...#ramblings
15 notes
·
View notes