Medievalists.net » Westminster Abbey http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Agincourt 600 Celebrated with Pomp and Pageantry at Westminster Abbey http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/30/agincourt-600-celebrated-with-pomp-and-pageantry-at-westminster-abbey/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/30/agincourt-600-celebrated-with-pomp-and-pageantry-at-westminster-abbey/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:11:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62126 600 years ago, the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out as word arrived in London that Henry V had defeated the French in Agincourt. 600 years later to the very day, the bells pealed out again to commemorate a medieval battle where the English were vastly outnumbered but still came home victorious.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/30/agincourt-600-celebrated-with-pomp-and-pageantry-at-westminster-abbey/feed/ 0 Bejewelled backdrop to coronations did not cost a king’s ransom http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/14/bejewelled-backdrop-coronations-cost-kings-ransom/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/14/bejewelled-backdrop-coronations-cost-kings-ransom/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:40:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56160 Research into England’s oldest medieval altarpiece – which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations – has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/14/bejewelled-backdrop-coronations-cost-kings-ransom/feed/ 0 Like Father Like Son? Henry III’s Tomb at Westminster Abbey as a Case Study in Late Thirteenth-Century English Kingship http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/like-father-like-son-henry-iiis-tomb-westminster-abbey-case-study-late-thirteenth-century-english-kingship/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/07/like-father-like-son-henry-iiis-tomb-westminster-abbey-case-study-late-thirteenth-century-english-kingship/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2014 01:08:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50241 Who was this king, and who made this grand monument to him? An inscription around the edge of the upper tomb chest identifies its occupant as Henry III, the English king who died in 1272 after a reign of fifty-six years.

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