Evening dress made of pattern-woven light blue silk damask with motifs of lilies of the valley and leaves, decorated with wavy pleated silk borders, pearl borders and pearl embroidered flowers with large pearl pendants, 1860s.
Gothenburg City Museum
Reblogged cuties-in-codices
context from the submitter: illustration from a "Fechtkunst" manuscript by Jörg Wilhalm Huter. Bavaria, 1523. Munich, BSB, Cgm 3711, fol. 22v
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Reblogged sickfreaksirkay
“From whence you came” is a classic place to send back a foul beast
Gandalf suggests:
Reblogged justgarb
Presumably based on this lil guy!
Reblogged thewritingpossum
Babe wake up new Vulgate chapter just dropped
Text:
It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court.
In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later vanishes into thin air. He will then reappear as a balding child who issues edicts to King Arthur wearing no underwear.
For over 400 years, this fragile remnant of a celebrated medieval story lay undisturbed and unnoticed, repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans to help protect an archival register of property deeds.
Now, the 700-year-old fragment of Suite Vulgate du Merlin - an Old French manuscript so rare there are less than 40 surviving copies in the world - has been discovered by an archivist in Cambridge University Library, folded and stitched into the binding of the 16th-century register.
Reblogged questingbeaste
One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.
The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:
Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.
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Guns are canon in LotR (since they’re mentioned in the Hobbit), so anyways, here’s my OC: Legolas but he has a sniper rifle instead of a bow.
Occurrences of “gun” in the hobbit:
“It is not like you, Bilbo, to keep friends waiting on the mat, and open the door like a pop-gun!” - Chapter 1, An unexpected party
“… when the goblins came to grab him, there was a terrific flash like lightning in the cave, a smell like gunpowder, and several of them fell dead.” - Chapter 4, Over hill and under hill
“The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed wolves and goblins from his path like straw and feathers.” - Chapter 18, The return journey
So two of them are effectively the narrator speaking, and as far as I know, the narrator seems to be from Tolkien’s time.
Pop-gun is pretty direct, but then the Hobbit is full of oddities, like the narrator claiming Bilbo is specifically responsible for some modern proverbs. Really an artifact of it being closer to a fairy tale in some ways, and evolving out of a children’s bedtime story.
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Have you ever heard people claim that Elizabeth I was a “man’s woman?” That she never had positive relationships with other women and was constantly jealous of them? That she flew into a rage whenever any of them dared to get married?
I’m here to tell you that that notion is complete nonsense. At best, it’s an exaggerated myth. At worst, it’s evidence of the deep misogyny that still surrounds Elizabeth and her legacy.
Check out the latest post on my website where I highlight some of the many positive female friendships that Elizabeth had, which shows that she is much more multifaceted than simplistic narratives give her credit for.
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Historically Accurate Snow White
The first entry to the series of historically accurate Disney princesses was only naturally the first Disney princess ever, Snow White, who starred in the first ever feature length animated film. Here’s some of my reasoning behind the series. Under the cut I’ll explain my thought process behind the outfit.
Reblogged starlightomatic
hey when you make posts, i just want you to know, thou/thee/thy/thine/ye are like he/you(object)/your/yours/you(subject) okay? "thou art wearing shoes," "i will wear shoes for thee," okay?
you say thine if the next word starts with a vowel and thy if the next word starts with a consonant and they both mean "your" so "thine own shoes," "thy shoes," okay?
and ye means you and refers to the subject of a sentence, "ye members of the brotherhood of shoes," okay? you need this information to create better knight yaoi. i'm personally more interested in nun yuri but we are a community
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Robert Ponsonby Staples (Irish, 1853-1943) - A Morning Ride
To all the people who saw me riding side-saddle bareback for a photoshoot this one time and went There's no way they actually did that
Source: adams.ie
Reblogged theladyelizabeth
i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways
Big Mood. Mary's like "My mother's life was ruined by her husband leaving her, therefore I must have a husband or my life will be ruined." Meanwhile, Elizabeth's like "My mother's husband ruined her life, therefore I will never have a husband."
Though I feel like one of those takes was sounder than the other.
Reblogged theladyoftheisles
In the heart of ancient Sussex is one of the country’s best displays of sheer enthusiasm and practical inventiveness to combat the problems of cycling; from bumpy roads, lack of chains, carrying bulky parcels, to extra-long and short legs, not to mention the bulky woolen clothing (there was no Lycra back then). No matter what the problem, Victorian inventors tried to solve them. Their ingenious efforts make a fascinating display for 21st century cycling and non-cycling visitors.
So how do you solve a problem of bumpy roads with no tarmac? Simple, you put a row of springs around the wheel! How do you carry bulky goods on your bike with ease? If you are Horsham born architect and inventor Edward Burstow, you create an iconic Horsham bike, the ‘pentacycle’.
The original pentacycle was designed and patented by Burstow in 1882. It had a large central wheel directly driven by pedals like a penny farthing bicycle, with a “bath-chair type handle,” and four smaller wheels for stability. This arrangement led to it being referred to as the “hen and chickens” cycle, as it resembled a mother hen surrounded by her four chicks. It was trialled by rural postmen in Horsham and, although liked, the design was not widely adopted.
According to the Postal Museum, postmen complained that the cycle wore out their trousers in the crotch, leaving them with holes in their uniform. Since they had to pay for their own uniforms, they refused to use the cycle and it was consigned to the scrap heap.
Source: vintag.es