Tag Archives: Wat Tyler Uprising

on the block

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Dave

Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, Wat Tyler Uprising | Leave a comment

POETIC LICENSE FOR THE PRIVILEGED

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

JOUSTING BETWEEN VENUS AND MARS

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dave

Though presumably he made neither love nor war, he thoroughly approved of both and took them as subjects for his Chronicles, that grand and noble history of his time, the waning middle ages. Jean Froissart, the poet priest, has imposed … Continue reading →