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Fiesty monks. Fighting monks and battling friars. Jerusalem had been lost for good in 1244 and in 1291, Acre, the chief remaining fortress of the Crusaders and their last seat of government, fell to the enemy after a siege of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Black Death, foulques de villaret, Froissart Chronicles, gustave wappers, John Langstrother, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pinturicchio paintings, Poll Tax England, Robert Hales, Robert Hales beheaded, War of the Roses, Wat Tyler Uprising
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Next to waging war, the heroes of Jean Froissart, from his compendium of the first half of the Hundred Years War, appeared to like nothing better than a well run joust. For true chivalric spirit, few tournaments matched the jousts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Aymerigot Marcel, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Ball Uprising, Loiset Lyedet, Loyset Liedet, Master of Anthony of Burgundy, Master of the Dresden Prayer Book, Medieval manuscripts, Philip van Artevelde, Philippe de Mazerolles, Pierre du Bois, Pope Gregory XI, The Hundred Years War, Wat Tyler Uprising
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