#faversham

[fallauween]

Autumn Spindle by Mark Sewell

[hellololla]

Faversham, Kent.

Antiques Market – first Sunday of every month except September when the Hop Festival is on.

Standard Quay – a short walk from the market square, this historic quay on Faversham Creek used to be a former commercial port and now you can find small shops seeling antiques, pizza and fresh fish.

Macknade’s Food Hall – Just outside Faversham you will find one of England’s oldest food halls (since 1847). There is produce from all over the world and a number of stalls selling beer, cocktails and yummy treats.

[rodmajorart]

Faversham Creek. 9 January 2023. #faversham #favershamkent #favershamcreek #kent #oilpainting #painting #pleinairpainter #pleinair #impressionism #allaprima #rapidpainting #posillipofaversham #albiontavernafaversham (at Albion Taverna) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPgae5IBoN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vox-anglosphere]

Imagine keeping your balance while picking hops ten feet in the air..

Hop pickers on stilts in Faversham England 1920

[goingpostal1980]

[shirtlessboyofkent]

Faversham Hop Festival 3/9/22

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🤎 @goose.studio Always wanted to learn how to screenprint? Set aside time for you this year - join us and learn how to create your very own edition of 2/3 colour/layer screen prints onto paper💡 We will guide you through your own art-working/preparing & exposing screens/ mixing & experimenting with ink colours/ pulling your prints/ troubleshooting/ blending & overprinting techniques 💫 Our February, March & April dates are confirmed for this years 1 Day Beginners/Refresher Screen printing workshops 📯 The workshops run from 10am-4pm (including a 1hour break for lunch) £90 per person. (All materials included) 🪄 -Saturday 4th February -Saturday 4th March -Saturday 1st April Stretch your creative muscles with us, learn something new, we guarantee you will leave feeling inspired and with a handful of colourful prints to kick start the year 🪬 Are class sizes are kept small at Goose Studio so you get the most out of your tutor - book early to avoid disappointment. DM or email us info@portableprintstudio.com #gooseprintstudio #portableprintstudio #faversham #thingstodoinkent #creativekent #whitsable #canterbury #hernebay #printmaking #printspotters #screenprinting #creativeworkshop #supportsmallbusiness #experiences #creativeexperience #margate #deal #visitfaversham #artworkshop #learnsomethingnew #daysout (at Faversham, Kent) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm-BX5Ro8-F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[petnews2day]

KareBear Boarding Kennels, Gillingham, ends stray dog contract with Swale Borough Council

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/TXUn8

KareBear Boarding Kennels, Gillingham, ends stray dog contract with Swale Borough Council

A doggy day care is no longer able to take stray pups found by the council due to new ”strict boarding regulations”. KareBear Boarding Kennels, Gillingham, has announced it will no longer be able to aid Swale‘s dog warden without having to “demolish” part of its existing business. Kelly and Billy Bleach who run KareBear […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/TXUn8 #DogNews #Faversham, #IsleOfSheppey, #Kent, #Medway, #Sittingbourne

[panicinthestudio]

Disk Brooch, early 600s

Anglo-Saxon

Made in Faversham, England

Gold with garnets, glass, and niello

Overall: 1 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/16 in. (4.7 x 1.1 x 0.2 cm)

The region of Kent, in southeastern England, was an important center of Anglo-Saxon jewelry production of the type represented by this delicate, brightly colored piece. The interlace patterns created by gold filigree and the polished garnets reflect the high quality of goods worn by individuals in life and later buried with them.

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[poisoneddonuts]

hen party 🐓

[bumblingbriars]

More Fiona doodles! She’s Janine’s cousin on her maternal side, comes to NYC from Chicago. She helps out Janine from time to time

[effable-as-f]

I love renaissance theater

(The soup WAS poisoned btw. Master gaslighter)

[weirdlookindog]

The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (Night Comes Too Soon, 1948)

[fletcherraleighshoeeeee]

Ships That I Support (The Summoner Series Edition) <333

Fletcher and Verity - tbh I know I might some hate for this but I just think that they would be pretty hot

Fletcher and Seraph - y'all can't tell me that these two men are just friends... no way.

Fletcher and Malik - idk why but I get "panicked gay" vibes from Malik, and their interactions in The Inquisition seem pretty gay to me. I ship it tho :))))

Othello and Cress - This one is self-explanatory, they're just destined to be together

[gennsoup]

Curses are like arrows shot upright, Which, falling down, light on the shooter's head.

Unknown Author, Arden of Faversham

[againstaseaoftroubles]

Great post! For further reading, I would highly recommend Garrett A. Sullivan's "Arden of Faversham and the Early Modern Household." In it, he discusses exactly what OP brilliantly explained. Another important thing to note is that in the medieval period, the idea of a distinct "public sphere" and "domestic sphere," with the former being the domain of men and the latter of women, simply didn't exist. Rather, "these two arenas were understood as overlapping and interanimating." The idea that women should be "confined" to the home just wouldn't make sense to people of the medieval age because the home wasn't seen as distinct from the commonwealth.

all RIGHT:

Why You’re Writing Medieval (and Medieval-Coded) Women Wrong: A RANT

(Or, For the Love of God, People, Stop Pretending Victorian Style Gender Roles Applied to All of History)

This is a problem I see alllll over the place - I’ll be reading a medieval-coded book and the women will be told they aren’t allowed to fight or learn or work, that they are only supposed to get married, keep house and have babies, &c &c.

If I point this out ppl will be like “yes but there was misogyny back then! women were treated terribly!” and OK. Stop right there.

By & large, what we as a culture think of as misogyny & patriarchy is the expression prevalent in Victorian times - not medieval. (And NO, this is not me blaming Victorians for their theme park version of “medieval history”. This is me blaming 21st century people for being ignorant & refusing to do their homework).

Yes, there was misogyny in medieval times, but 1) in many ways it was actually markedly less severe than Victorian misogyny, tyvm - and 2) it was of a quite different type. (Disclaimer: I am speaking specifically of Frankish, Western European medieval women rather than those in other parts of the world. This applies to a lesser extent in Byzantium and I am still learning about women in the medieval Islamic world.)

So, here are the 2 vital things to remember about women when writing medieval or medieval-coded societies

FIRST. Where in Victorian times the primary axes of prejudice were gender and race - so that a male labourer had more rights than a female of the higher classes, and a middle class white man would be treated with more respect than an African or Indian dignitary - In medieval times, the primary axis of prejudice was, overwhelmingly, class. Thus, Frankish crusader knights arguably felt more solidarity with their Muslim opponents of knightly status, than they did their own peasants. Faith and age were also medieval axes of prejudice - children and young people were exploited ruthlessly, sent into war or marriage at 15 (boys) or 12 (girls). Gender was less important.

What this meant was that a medieval woman could expect - indeed demand - to be treated more or less the same way the men of her class were. Where no ancient legal obstacle existed, such as Salic law, a king’s daughter could and did expect to rule, even after marriage.

Women of the knightly class could & did arm & fight - something that required a MASSIVE outlay of money, which was obviously at their discretion & disposal. See: Sichelgaita, Isabel de Conches, the unnamed women fighting in armour as knights during the Third Crusade, as recorded by Muslim chroniclers.

Tolkien’s Eowyn is a great example of this medieval attitude to class trumping race: complaining that she’s being told not to fight, she stresses her class: “I am of the house of Eorl & not a serving woman”. She claims her rights, not as a woman, but as a member of the warrior class and the ruling family. Similarly in Renaissance Venice a doge protested the practice which saw 80% of noble women locked into convents for life: if these had been men they would have been “born to command & govern the world”. Their class ought to have exempted them from discrimination on the basis of sex.

So, tip #1 for writing medieval women: remember that their class always outweighed their gender. They might be subordinate to the men within their own class, but not to those below.

SECOND. Whereas Victorians saw women’s highest calling as marriage & children - the “angel in the house” ennobling & improving their men on a spiritual but rarely practical level - Medievals by contrast prized virginity/celibacy above marriage, seeing it as a way for women to transcend their sex. Often as nuns, saints, mystics; sometimes as warriors, queens, & ladies; always as businesswomen & merchants, women could & did forge their own paths in life

When Elizabeth I claimed to have “the heart & stomach of a king” & adopted the persona of the virgin queen, this was the norm she appealed to. Women could do things; they just had to prove they were Not Like Other Girls. By Elizabeth’s time things were already changing: it was the Reformation that switched the ideal to marriage, & the Enlightenment that divorced femininity from reason, aggression & public life.

For more on this topic, read Katherine Hager’s article “Endowed With Manly Courage: Medieval Perceptions of Women in Combat” on women who transcended gender to occupy a liminal space as warrior/virgin/saint.

So, tip #2: remember that for medieval women, wife and mother wasn’t the ideal, virgin saint was the ideal. By proving yourself “not like other girls” you could gain significant autonomy & freedom.

Finally a bonus tip: if writing about medieval women, be sure to read writing on women’s issues from the time so as to understand the terms in which these women spoke about & defended their ambitions. Start with Christine de Pisan.

I learned all this doing the reading for WATCHERS OF OUTREMER, my series of historical fantasy novels set in the medieval crusader states, which were dominated by strong medieval women! Book 5, THE HOUSE OF MOURNING (forthcoming 2023) will focus, to a greater extent than any other novel I’ve ever yet read or written, on the experience of women during the crusades - as warriors, captives, and political leaders. I can’t wait to share it with you all!