#thomas of woodstock

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Where no manuscripts are extant, matters are less easily resolved, as is illustrated by the late-fourteenth-century library of Eleanor de Bohun. An important part of the directions making up Eleanor's testament relates to books, as she took pains to distribute them amongst her children in a way which would be appropriate for their respective callings in life. To her daughter, Isabella, a minoress, for instance, she bequeathed a French bible and book of decretals, a book of lives of the fathers, 'les pastorelx Seint Gregoire', and other devotional books. To her son Humphrey, on the other hand, she left texts which centred on chivalry and the active life: a chronicle of France, Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, a book of vices and virtues, the Bohun ancestral romance of the 'chivaler a cigne', and a richly illuminated psalter which had belonged to her father, and which she wished to remain in the family line, passing from heir to heir. She is known to have commissioned, on her own account, the Edinburgh Psalter, National Library of Scotland Advocates' MS 18.6.5. Her concerns are quite consistent with those displayed by other members of her family, in particular her father, and her younger sister, Mary, both of whom were active as patrons. Now Eleanor was married to Thomas, duke of Gloucester, whose death in 1397 occasioned the compilation of an inventory of goods which is justly famous for its collection of books. Yet few historians have acknowledged the role which Eleanor may have had to play in the establishing and augmenting of this library, in spite of her proven interest.

Carol M. Meale, "'. . . alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch': lay women and their books in late medieval England', Women and literature in Britain, 1150-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

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William Shakespeare wrote ten history plays. Of these, one of the most famous is  Richard II . The play  Richard II , written around 1595, is based on the rule of King Richard II (reign 1377-1399), but one of the main characters in the play is Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, despite the fact he is dead for its entirety. Woodstock’s murder plays a prominent part in the play, but it has been argued that his murder is not as clear-cut as Shakespeare implies. Who was Thomas of Woodstock, and what really happened to him?

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Happy Halloween 2024!

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why tf do i have so many comfortz wtf??

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I decided to bring a Dream into Reality

BEHOLD

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Today marks the 6th anniversary of the letter 𝗧𝗼𝗺 wrote on the death of his 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘆... 💖

“𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝒉 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝒉 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟. 𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠. 𝑇𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑. 𝑅𝑢𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝒉 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑠. 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝒉𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝒉 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐴𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝒉𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑦.” 💝

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Hoy se cumplen 6 años de la carta que 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗺 por el fallecimiento de su Woody... 💖

“𝑇𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑜 𝑦 𝑡𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒. 𝑁𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑎 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑑𝑜. 𝑇𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑠. 𝐴 𝑙𝑎 𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑦 𝑑𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑎 𝑦 𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑧 𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜 𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎. 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑎𝒉𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠. 𝑇𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜 𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖. 𝐶𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑖 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜 𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑜. 𝑆𝑖𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑢 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝒉𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝒉𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑜.” 💝

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“Many Towns Voting Today,” Border Cities Star. December 5, 1932. Page 7. ---- Three in Mayoralty Races In Ottawa And Woodstock --- TORONTO, Dec. 5. - Residents of numerous cities, towns and villages and townships of Ontario go to the polls today to elect new municipal councils for the year 1933. Lower taxes, rigid economy and balanced budgets have been popular planks, upon which the multitude of candidates have appealed to the electorate. The exceptionally large number of nominees this year has created unusual interest and new marks in polling are expected to be registered.

In the majority of the larger cities the mayoralty contest has been waged between two aspirants. Ottawa, Windsor and Woodstock have three seeking the chief magistrate's chair. Hamilton, Chatham, Kingston, Kitchener, Galt and St. Thomas will see the vote divided among two for this honor.

Brockville, believing that money that might be spent on elections could be better used for unemployment relief, returned the entire municipal slate by acclamation with Fred Wolthausen as mayor. Stratford has accorded C. I. Graff another term as mayor by acclamation.

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1152

first posted in facebook february 23, 2023

thomas cole -- "the titan's goblet" (1833)

"we are still in eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly" ... thomas cole

"can i walk along beside you i have come here to lose the smog and i feel like i'm a part of something turning round and round and maybe it's the time of year maybe it's the time of man and i don't know who i am but life is for learning we are stardust we're golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" ... joni mitchell

"i'll have what he's drinking" ... al janik

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And let's not sleep on "'snails" ("God's nails," and no, I am not making this up)

ik we still have zounds ("'swounds") ("god's wounds") but we should bring back "'sblood" ("god's blood"), "'sdeath" ("god's death"), & "'sflesh" ("god's flesh") as oaths

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The Marriage of Henry of Lancaster and Mary de Bohun (1380/1)

From: Chronicles of England, France and Spain and the Surrounding Countries, by Sir John Froissart, Translated from the French Editions with Variations and Additions from Many Celebrated MSS, by Thomas Johnes, Esq; London: William Smith, 1848. *

Humphry, earl of Hereford and Northampton, and constable of England, was one of the greatest lords and landholders in that country; for it was said, and I, the author of this book, heard it when I resided in England, that his revenue was valued at fifty thousand nobles a-year. From this earl of Hereford there remained only two daughters as his heiresses; Blanche the eldest, and Isabella** her sister. The eldest was married to Thomas of Woodstock, earl of Buckingham. The youngest was unmarried, and the earl of Buckingham would willing have had her remain so, for then he would have enjoyed the whole of the earl of Hereford’s fortune. Upon his marriage with Eleanor, he went to reside at his handsome castle of Pleshy, in the county of Essex, thirty miles from London, which he possessed in right of his wife. He took on himself the tutelage of his sister-in-law, and had her instructed in doctrine; for it was his intention she should be professed a nun of the order of St. Clare***, which had a very rich and large convent in England. In this manner was she educated during the time the earl remained in England, before his expedition into France. She was also constantly attended by nuns from this convent, who tutored her in matters of religion, continually blaming the married state. The young lady seemed to incline to their doctrine, and thought not of marriage.

Duke John of Lancaster, being a prudent and wise man, foresaw the advantage of marrying his only son Henry, by his first wife Blanche, to the lady Mary: he was heir to all the possessions of the house of Lancaster in England, which were very considerable. The duke had for some time considered he could not choose a more desirable wife for his son than the lady who was intended for a nun, as her estates were very large, and her birth suitable to any rank; but he did not take any steps in the matter until his brother of Buckingham had set out on his expedition to France. When he had crossed the sea, the duke of Lancaster had the young lady conducted to Arundel castle; for the aunt of the two ladies was the sister of Richard, earl of Arundel, one of the most powerful barons of England.**** This lady Arundel, out of complaisance to the duke of Lancaster, and for the advancement of the young lady, went to Pleshy, where she remained with the countess of Buckingham and her sister for fifteen days. On her departure from Pleshy, she managed so well that she carried with her the lady Mary to Arundel, when the marriage was instantly consummated between her and Henry of Lancaster. During their union of twelve years, he had by her four handsome sons, Henry, Thomas, John and Humphrey, and two daughters, Blanche and Philippa. The earl of Buckingham, as I said, had not any inclination to laugh when he heard these tidings; for it would not be necessary to divide an inheritance which the considered wholly as his own, excepting the constableship which was continued to him. When he learnt that his brothers had all been concerned in this matter, he became melancholy, and never after loved the duke of Lancaster as he had hitherto done.^

Notes:

* Johnes notes that this is from "only one of [his] mss. [manuscripts] and not in any printed copy". Chris Given-Wilson (Henry IV, Yale University Press, 2016): "This story comes from a variant manuscript of Froissart's chronicles used by Johnes, but subsequently destroyed by fire."

** Johnes: "Froissart mistakes: their names were Eleanor and Mary." Presumably, Johnes then corrects their names for the rest of the narrative?

*** Jennifer C. Ward (translator and editor), Women of the English Nobility and Gentry: 1066-1500 (Manchester Medieval Sources, Manchester University Press, 1995): "This is probably a reference to the convent of the Minoresses outside Aldgate in London where Isabella, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor, later became a nun."

**** Ward: "Joan de Bohun, Mary’s mother, was the sister of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel." Given-Wilson argues the role Froissart assigns to Mary's aunt was actually played by Joan.

^ The veracity of Froissart's account has tended to be questioned, with some historians generally concluding there was probably some truth, mostly revolving around the falling out between John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock over the marriage. The secretive nature of it is almost certainly untrue, given Gaunt had received a royal grant for Mary's marriage. Given-Wilson:

Froissart claimed that ‘the marriage was instantly consummated’, but this was precipitate. He also got several other details of the story wrong, such as calling the two sisters Blanche and Isabel and saying that it was their ‘aunt’ who carried Mary away from Pleshey, but the essentials of his story are corroborated by other sources and undoubtedly correct. Countess Joan was complicit in the plot, presumably hoping to give her daughter a life outside the convent. She probably commissioned a pair of illuminated psalters for the marriage.

The psalters were probably made by the de Bohun-sponsored workshop at Pleshey, one of Woodstock's principle residences. It's possible, presumably, that Joan commissioned them after the wedding but if they were commissioned before/finished by the time of the wedding, it's hard to imagine that Woodstock's household were entirely unaware that a move was being made to marry Mary to Henry.

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'The Seagull/Woodstock, NY' Review

'The Seagull/Woodtock, NY' is a world premiere adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 'The Seagull' that is provocatively sardonic and modern.

(L to R): Ato Essandoh, Parker Posey, Daniel Oreskes, David Cale in The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (courtesy of Monique Carboni) The Seagull by Anton Chekhov is a favorite that receives productions and has been made into films, an opera and ballet performed all over the world. Some productions (with Ian McKellen at BAM in 2007) have been absolutely brilliant. What’s not to love about Chekhov with his…

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remember the nights | newt [remastered]

PAIRING — newt x thomas’ step-sister!reader

SUMMARY — after her father’s engagement, y/n moves from new york city to the small town of woodstock, where she befriends her step-brother thomas’ group of friends, and easily finds a second home within them. among the crowd of rowdy teenagers is newt, an intriguing boy who seemed to catch y/n’s eye, and who quickly becomes the boy that would end up making her final year of high school unforgettable. 

WARNINGS — friends to lovers, slow burn, fluff, angst, etc. — each chapter will have separate warnings

WORD COUNT — 31,989

NOTES — AHH ITS FINALLY HERE!! i've been waiting for so long to do something like this and honestly despite how cliche and trope-y this fic is i love it to death

EXTRAS — town map | reader's house | brenda's house | newt's house

PLAYLISTS — youtube | spotify | apple

read on Wattpad | read on Ao3

chapter one — new beginnings

chapter two — parking lot introductions

chapter three — mickey's diner

chapter four — the willow tree

chapter five — late night shenanigans

chapter six — stargazing

chapter seven — bright lights, big city

chapter eight — saturday

chapter nine — suspicion

chapter ten — the bonfire

chapter eleven — o, atlas, pt. i

chapter twelve — o, atlas, pt. ii

chapter thirteen — welcome distractions

chapter fourteen — a rom-com happy ending

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kinktober '23

first time i've ever done something like this, so forgive me if it isn't up to par! (very much ib @floralcyanide)

ao3 | main master-list

i. strap-ons - patricia 'kitten' braden ii. hate sex - jackson rippner iii. roleplay - robert fischer iiiv. collaring - paul sunday v. praise/degradation - burt fabelman vi. sex toys - agent donald buchanan vii. overstimulation - jonathan crane viii. virginity - eli sunday ix. dry humping - neil lewis x. bondage - jay (okja) xi. fear play - jonathan crane xii. semi-public - neil lewis xiii. high sex - vw guy (taking woodstock) xiv. sex tape - edward 'riddler' nashton xv. impact play - thomas shelby xvi. body worship - louis ives xvii. cum play - joby taylor xviii. wax play - jackson rippner xix. daddy - burt fabelman xx. lingerie - patricia 'kitten' braden xxi. free use - calvin weir-fields xxii. voyeurism - edward 'riddler' nashton xxiii. panties - seth (looper) xxiv. mutual masturbation - jim (the delinquent season) xxv. dacryphilia - eli sunday

[joysmercer]

my head hurts

what i want: a family tree showing each and every familial connection between the people involved in the wars of the roses

what i have: not that >:(