#late 14th century

[artschoolglasses]

Leather shoe, late 14th Century

From the London Museum

[zurich-snows]

Part of a pilgrim badge from the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. This badge depicts part of the scene of Thomas Becket returning from exile in France and refers to his journey from Sandwich to Canterbury on horseback. All that remains of this badge is Becket’s dappled horse and the lower part of Becket’s body. Becket’s cloak hangs in folds across the saddle and his right leg is stretched out straight ahead. He wears pointed shoes. 

Thomas Becket was born in London in 1118. He became a royal official and a great friend of King Henry II. He was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162. He argued with King Henry II, and fled to France in 1164. Thomas Becket returned to Canterbury in 1170 and was killed in the cathedral by four knights who thought this would please the king. People were outraged at the murder of an archbishop on holy ground and Becket was made a saint. He became one of the patron saints of London. Many Londoners travelled to Canterbury to pray at the shrine there and bought badges and ampullae (small bottles for holy water) as souvenirs of their pilgrimage.

Late Medieval; late 14th century

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion.

Artist/Culture: German or Netherlandish

Date: late 13th or early 14th century

Period: Late Medieval

Medium: Brass

▪︎This unusual example bears a Hebrew inscription on one side that reads: (On the side and rear hip of the lion): ברוך אתה ה אלהינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצוותיו וצוונו על נטילת ידים ; [Translation] Blessed be God, King of the Universe, who blessed us and instructed us to wash our hands (Baruch ata adonai alokhenu meleh Ha-olam asher Ridshanu bemitsvotsar vetsivanu al netilas yadayim).

[maertyrer]

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini The Execution of the Four Crowned Martyrs

Tempera on panel, 40.2 x 44.5 cm, about 1385/90

[starzknight]

Disney princess with a bit more accurate outfits...

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[majouartings]

found some some farcilles in my doodle folder that I still kinda like so here you go 💖 lesbian aragorn and arwen you will always be famous

[dwellordream]

- Margot Lister, Costume

[charlesreeza]

The Cathedral of St. Barbara - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Photos by Charles Reeza, October 2023

[artghutry]

Title: Standing Boy

Period: late Javanese period

Date: 12th–14th century(?)

Culture: Indonesia (Java)

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: H. 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987

[uraandri]

genuinely beleive all my problems would be solved if i owned a suit of armor. or at least a polearm

[cervenakoviny]

[dyspraxicgamergirl]

[wonder-worker]

"Alice Perrers was perceived by her contemporaries to be an uncrowned queen and through an analysis of her activities it is clear she was able to utilise the practical benefits of queenship for her own ends. However, by taking on the mantle of queenship Alice fundamentally corrupted the sovereignty and kingship of Edward III. First, by her aggressively political behaviour she became the threat at the heart of the power structure that the gendered constructions of queenship were supposed to remove from a consort. Second, by taking on the practical aspects of queenship she inherently undermined the ideological role of queenship, both by the simple fact that she was a mistress and not a queen, and even more so because of her behaviour. The problems Alice caused and how she was perceived were amplified in contrast to the [...] demeanour of Philippa, who was widely respected and much loved by the people. Just as queens in their exalted position were ‘lightning rods’ for ideas about women and female power, so was Alice because of her proximity to the king."

-Laura Tompkins, The uncrowned queen: Alice Perrers, Edward III and political crisis in fourteenth-century England, 1360-1377 (Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013)

"Alice's expansion of her power through the office of queenship was problematic for a number of reasons. First, while the queen’s power was legitimised by her marriage to the king and her coronation, Alice’s power was not formalised in this way and consequently would have been regarded as illegitimate. Second, she was not the right type of woman to share in the king’s dignity. She was not noble, she was not chaste and she was not virtuous. Instead, she was a low-born London widow and a businesswoman. Consequently, we find Alice being discussed in the language and stereotypes of queenship, but in a rather negative light. For example, while queens are routinely described as noble, beautiful and virtuous regardless of what they actually looked like, Walsingham is quick to emphasise that Alice was of low birth, and that, almost implied as a consequence, she ‘was not attractive or beautiful’. While we do not know what Alice looked like it seems unlikely that Edward III would have taken and kept her as a mistress for so long if she had been physically repellent. Third, and most significantly, not only was Alice an inappropriate mistress exercising illegitimate power, but she also broke all of the gendered rules that queenship was constructed around, inverting the ideal form of queenship to her advantage."

[crowlore]

if i can make it through this month i can make it through the year i think

[gallopinggallifreyans]

Please look at this drawing of an elf from a German manuscript