This is the same poem as last year, but a different design (and like last year, this is recycled from about 10 years ago). Have wonderful day!
Picture of the Week #155
Barbican of Leeds Castle. Photo May 2003.
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Sunday Short Takes
* A follow-up to a story from two weeks ago, Elizabeth Taylor’s necklace containing the pearl ‘La Peregrina’ ended up selling for $11.8 million (£7.6 million)
* Unrequited Love? 16th-Century Erotic Poem Discovered – Nearly 450 years ago, when England was tearing itself apart over religion, a Catholic woman named Lady Elizabeth Dacre wrote an elegant but at times erotic Latin love poem to Sir Anthony Cooke, a Protestant and tutor to King Edward VI, the successor of Henry VIII. (Suzannah Lipscomb had a short article about this in the Times, but unfortunately it is behind a paywall. If anyone has more info from that article, please post it in the comments!)
* Rival Queens, Precious Books – From the British Library’s Manuscripts blog, links to two new additions to their digitized collection: Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book and The Queen Mary Psalter.
* On the Tudor Trail: Winners of our Tudor Ghost Story Contest! – Congrats to winner Lisa Tecoulesco and runner-up Katherine Marcella!
* And a new blog discovery: Art History News by Bendor Grosvenor. After a discussion about the Holbein drawing of Anne Boleyn on Twitter (mentioned in the post), Grosvenor posted about his research into its identification in 2006. See Anne Boleyn regains her head for all the details. See also Most Tudor stuff for a transcription of the inventory of Kathryn Howard’s jewels and how it relates to the Holbein miniature.
Picture of the Week #154
Shakespeare’s Globe. Photo May 1998.
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Sunday Short Takes
* Stephan Edwards of Some Grey Matter wrote to tell me of a new addition to his site, the Historia delle cose occorse nel regno d’Inghilterra, in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte di Odoardo VI (History of the things that occured in the realm of England, in relation to the Duke of Northumberland after the death of Edward VI.). This primary source account starts at the end of Edward VI’s reign and goes through the wedding of Mary I and Philip of Spain. Thanks to Stephan for his work and making this available to everyone on his site!!
* In a follow-up to last week, the portrait of Catherine of Aragon up for auction at Christie’s ended up selling for £151,250 (about £100,000 over the initial estimate!) and the portrait of Katherine Parr sold for £27,500, about twice the estimate.
* History Today has announced the shortlist of the Longman-History Today Book award and among the finalists is Thomas Penn’s work on Henry VII, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
* The UK Parliament Archives twitter account linked to a page about the King’s Seat in Westminster Hall, which led me to poke around the rest of their pages on the building. I’ve been fascinated by Westminster Hall for a long time, since it is the only large surviving piece of the Palace of Westminster, which dates back to 1097 (William II) and was the place of several events in Tudor history. Be sure to look at the videos from the virtual tour!
Picture of the Week #153
Combs recovered from The Mary Rose. Photo June 2000.
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Sunday Short Takes
* Tanner Ritchie’s annual Holiday and New Year sale is on again! If you’re in to primary sources this is a great place to get some at a good price.
* Chatham dig finds Tudor dockyard remains
* Novel Approaches: From Academic History to Historical Fiction – The IHR had their first virtual conference on this topic and you can see all the presentations at the website.
And finally…
* If you have a few spare tens of thousands of pounds, you can bid on some late 16th century (or later) portraits of Catherine of Aragon and Katherine Parr on auction next week at Christie’s. And if you have a few spare MILLION – you can bid on some of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry, including La Peregrina, a pearl given to Mary I by her husband Philip of Spain. Many centuries later it was given to Taylor by her husband Richard Burton (who played Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days).
Picture of the Week #152
Penshurst Place. Photo May 2003.
One more of Penshurst, in honor of Sir Philip Sidney who was born there on this day in 1554.
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Picture of the Week #151
Raglan Castle, Wales. Photo May 2003.
As I’ve mentioned with previous pictures of Raglan, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII) lived at the castle in his childhood while in the custody of Sir William Herbert.
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Sunday Short Takes
* Westminster Abbey’s junk room has the best view in Europe – I really hope they are able to open this room up to the public permanently because I want to see it!
* Royal matters – Interesting answer on the question of the numbering of King Edwards
* A castle celebrates the Queen’s 500th birthday – More on the plans of Sudeley Castle to celebrate Katherine Parr’s birthday next year
* Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People – Display at the National Portrait Gallery that opens December 3 that looks at 14 portraits of unknown men and women (I’m not sure if this is the same exhibit that was at Montacute House last year or a continuation of the same project)
Wolf Hall sequel update and mini-series under development
I was originally planning to save the latest news on the sequel to Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall until the Sunday news round-up but the news started stacking up enough that I thought it deserved a dedicated post.
The first bit of news was that the name of the sequel has been changed to Bring Up the Bodies and the previously announced title The Mirror and the Light (that I blogged about here) will be used for the third book. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought that she had at least hinted that her Cromwell books might end up as a trilogy and now it seems to be the case.
News articles:
Hilary Mantel writes second sequel to Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel novel Wolf Hall will be part of a trilogy
Hilary Mantel reveals plans for Wolf Hall trilogy
And the other interesting piece of news – which isn’t really all that surprising given the success of The Tudors – HBO and the BBC are developing a mini-series based on Wolf Hall! I’m pretty optimistic that they’ll do a really good job of this although the plans are for four episodes which will mean a lot will have to be cut from the book.
News articles:
BBC and HBO line up Wolf Hall drama
HBO And BBC Developing Miniseries Based On Wolf Hall
BBC, HBO Team for ‘Wolf Hall’ Miniseries
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Picture of the Week #150
Hever Castle and part of the Astor ‘Tudor village’. Photo May 1998.
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Sunday Short Takes
* The Middle Ages in colour – A lovely BBC video in honor of the opening of the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts exhibition that I blogged about previously
* FiveBooks Interviews > Thomas Penn on Henry VII – Another great interview from The Browser (and thankfully I already have three of the books he recommended, so I didn’t have to add too many things to my wishlist)
* Volunteers for the 2012 Season – Sudeley Castle is looking for help with some upcoming projects including the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Katherine Parr’s birth
* Rare tankard finally returns to Glastonbury Abbey – “A rare carved oak tankard, said to have been saved from King Henry VIII’s looters during the Dissolution of the Monasteries is to be returned to Glastonbury Abbey for the first time in 125 years.”
Picture of the Week #149
Part of Edinburgh Castle and the volcanic rock it is built on.
Besides being an interesting place to visit as a fan of history, I loved the geology of Edinburgh!
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Sunday Short Takes
Since I didn’t do a round-up last week, I didn’t get around to posting about the discovery of Sir Francis Drake’s final fleet and the possible resting place of Drake himself. Here are a few of the many news stories that ran about the discovery:
* Sir Francis Drake’s final fleet ‘discovered off the coast of Panama’
Sir Francis Drake’s body ‘close to being found off Panama’
Wrecks that promise to unlock the mystery of Francis Drake’s final resting place
And a few other news items that caught my eye last week:
* Brierfield treasure hunter finds Tudor ring
* Britain’s oldest family business opened when Henry VIII ruled
And finally, Medievalists.net visited the Making History exhibition at the McMullen Museum at Boston College (I mentioned it in a previous Sunday short takes) and recorded an interview with the museum’s director. Tudor history fans will recognize the portrait in the background!
Picture of the Week #148
Armor made for Henry VIII in 1540, on display at the Tower of London. Photo May 2003.
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Upcoming exhibitions and books
Here’s the round-up of some of the upcoming books and exhibitions for late October through November. Again, there are probably things I’ve missed but the Tudors are just too popular!
Books
* I have conflicting information on a new work on Catherine of Aragon by Patrick Williams… some have it out this past week, but it looks like June 1 of next year is the official release date. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
* A new work by Eric Ives entitled The Reformation Experience is out November 18 in the UK and August 1, 2012 in the US:
* Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign by Harry Kelsey will be released November 30 in the UK and January 31, 2012 in the US. I’m looking forward to this one since I don’t know a whole lot about Philip’s time as King consort to Mary I.
Exhibitions
* As I posted about yesterday, the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts exhibition opens November 11 and runs through March 13, 2012. Among the works exhibited will be Henry VIII’s Psalter and the Hours of Elizabeth the Queen (a work owned by, but not created for, Elizabeth of York).
Two New Faces: the Hornebolte Portraits of Mary and Thomas Boleyn?
Roland Hui has written another fascinating and well-researched article about Tudor portraiture (do read his article A Reassessment of Queen Anne Boleyn’s Portraiture if you haven’t already) and this time takes a look at possible representations of Anne’s father and sister.
Have a look at: Two New Faces: the Hornebolte Portraits of Mary and Thomas Boleyn?
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British Library’s Royal Manuscripts exhibition
The British Library’s next major exhibition Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination opens November 11, 2011 and runs through March 13, 2012.
I was originally planning to just mention this in my next round-up of upcoming books and exhibitions, but since I had collected several links about it, I thought it deserved a post of its own.
Although the opening is a few weeks away, the British Library has already been posting about the exhibition for a few months on their Digitised Manuscripts blog and have added a bunch of images to their Facebook page. They also have launched an app for tablets and smart phones with some information and zoomable images from the exhibition. I bought the iPad version and it’s lovely! And, if you’re in the area, they will have a two-day conference on December 12 and 13.
If anyone makes it to the exhibition or conference and does a write-up, let me know!
Picture of the Week #147
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo May 1998.
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