….Patterson and his then-wife, Phyllis, who was also active in theater, were fired up by the improvisational possibilities of 16th century Italian commedia dell’arte. To their backyard menagerie, they continually added cast members, costumes, masks, dances, acrobats and an ornate…
….Patterson and his then-wife, Phyllis, who was also active in theater, were fired up by the improvisational possibilities of 16th century Italian commedia dell’arte. To their backyard menagerie, they continually added cast members, costumes, masks, dances, acrobats and an ornate…
A 15th-century silver disc used to connect the leather jesses attached to a hawk’s legs has been confirmed as treasure. An inquest at Dunstable Coroner’s Court heard how the piece was discovered by Mr. Wilde on property in Eaton Bray belonging to Mr. French in 2007. The disc, known as a vervel, has the name Edward inscribed on it and may have belonged to Prince Edward, the son of Henry VI, or a different Prince Edward, the son of Edward IV.
Find out more in the item at Dunstable Today.
Silver vervel confirmed as treasure originally appeared on About.com Medieval History on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 00:26:03.
So I’m watching parts of the Forever Knight marathon on Chiller (What can I say? 150 channels and nothing’s on) when an advertisement comes on for something called “True Horror.” Evidently this is a regular series on the Chiller channel, and today, Thursday the 26th, they’ll be running an episode on the real Dracula. Now, I haven’t seen it, and I have no idea whether it’s going to be sensationalistic schlock or a well-researched, credible look at the historical figure whose name is shared by Stoker’s fictional count, so I can’t exactly recommend it. But if you’re interested, it’ll be on at 5 and 9 pm Eastern, and again at 3:00 Friday morning. And if you see it, please feel free to post your comments here.
FYI, Yes, I’ll catch the show, but I’ll be recording it to watch later. Vlad may have enjoyed a feast next to a forest of impaled bodies, but the gruesome details of his horrific deeds are sure to put me off my turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving, to those of you who celebrate it.
“True Horror” on Chiller originally appeared on About.com Medieval History on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 00:11:34.
A Torah believed to have been inscribed in Soria between 1278 and 1295 was sold for $330,000 at Sotheby’s in New York. Written in Spanish, the script is one of only four surviving Jewish law books in Spain, providing invaluable data for scholars of medieval Jewish and Spanish history. The Torah is 58 centimeters high and more than 36 meters long.
Find out more in the piece at thinkSPAIN.
13th-century Torah auctioned at Sotheby’s originally appeared on About.com Medieval History on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 22:57:01.
…My Name Is Will is two stories in one. First, we meet Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz in 1983. He’s busy getting high, avoiding working on his master’s thesis, and trying to sort out how…
G.H.O.S.T. Chronicles: Phantom of the Renaissance Faire finds you hot on the trail of a menacing and terrifying ghost. This vengeful ghost has damaged attractions, vandalized shops and has driven away the park patrons… Complete article: http://togblogs.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/g-h-o-s-t-chronicles-phantom-of-the-renaissance-faire-mac-game/
A former English professor at Gettysburg and Elizabethtown, Steve Anderson is a professional actor and storyteller with more than twenty years of performance experience. His credits include more than one hundred stage plays, ten years with the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire,…
This is the second of the Lavenes’ Renaissance Faire Mysteries featuring scholar Jessie Morton, who is writing her doctoral dissertation on Renaissance crafts in modern times. One of her methods of research is apprenticing with various craftspeople at the year-round…
…The historian Marcus Rediker…came to believe that pirate society “built a better world”—one with vigorous democracy, economic fairness, considerable racial tolerance, and even health care—in many ways more praiseworthy than, say, the one that Snelgrave supported by slave trading. True,…
