Medievalists.net » Tudor Period http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54583 Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/03/love-marriage-medieval-english-stage-using-english-cycle-plays-sources-social-history/feed/ 0 ‘There is more to the story than this, of course’: Character and Affect in Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53306 Philippa Gregory has critiqued gendered representations of Elizabeth Woodville and has stated that her 2009 novel The White Queen fictionalises Woodville’s history with the aim of challenging such depictions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/13/story-course-character-affect-philippa-gregorys-white-queen/feed/ 0 Grainne Uaile: The Movie http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/10/grainne-uaile-movie/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/10/grainne-uaile-movie/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:55:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52482 An up and coming movie about Grace O' Malley (Grainne Uaile), Ireland's famous female pirate!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/10/grainne-uaile-movie/feed/ 0 (Re)casting the Past: The Cloisters and Medievalism http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:35:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51257 In this essay, I focus on a variety of texts printed using Anglo-Saxon type between 1566 and 1623 in an effort to explore the use of Anglo-Saxon typeface in the early modern period as the use of the Old English language progressed from polemical truncheon to historiographical instrument.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/22/recasting-past-cloisters-medievalism/feed/ 0 BOOK REVIEWS: “The Chalice” by Nancy Bilyeau http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/book-reviews-chalice-nancy-bilyeau/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/book-reviews-chalice-nancy-bilyeau/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:29:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48872 My book review of Nancy Bilyeau's, "The Chalice".

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/08/45559/feed/ 0 Twilight Tours at the Tower of London! http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/01/twilight-tours-at-the-tower-of-london/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/01/twilight-tours-at-the-tower-of-london/#comments Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:47:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45407 A review of the Twilight Tour at the Tower of London!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/01/twilight-tours-at-the-tower-of-london/feed/ 0 Great Medieval Fiction 2013! http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 23:55:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45337 For those of you who enjoy some fantasy or a historical novel - this list is for you!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/28/great-medieval-fiction-2013/feed/ 0 Danse Macabre’ Around the Tomb and Bones of Margaret of York http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/24/danse-macabre-around-the-tomb-and-bones-of-margaret-of-york/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/24/danse-macabre-around-the-tomb-and-bones-of-margaret-of-york/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:08:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44491 Over 500 years ago on 23 November 1503, at Malines, in present day Belgium, died Margaret of York, sister to Edward IV and Richard III of England and third and last wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, whom she survived by a quarter of a century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/24/danse-macabre-around-the-tomb-and-bones-of-margaret-of-york/feed/ 0 Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/06/arthur-tudor-prince-of-wales/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/06/arthur-tudor-prince-of-wales/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:13:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42664 Arthur Tudor was born shortly after midnight on September 20, 1486, just eight months after his parent’s marriage. King Henry was optimistic and insisted his son be born at Winchester, the legendary capital of King Arthur’s Camelot.

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