Uncovering the Lives of Medieval and Renaissance Women
Have you seen our blogposts about our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation programme? Learn about the female members of the household of two English princes, Isabella of Portugal's claim of thrones, and Jane Segar's artisty.
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Have you seen our blogposts about our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation programme?
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You can find them all here:https://t.co/eXegMw60jc
Below is a small (but perfectly formed) selection 🧵 pic.twitter.com/g43Pvbvnar -
In 'Venusse was her name', @paula_delval analysed the female members of the household of two English princes, including their governess, nursemaids and washerwoman.https://t.co/lfe0ma24y1 pic.twitter.com/MyokVDRAda
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In 'Claim of thrones', @paula_delval revealed how in 1471 Isabella of Portugal, dowager Duchess of Burgundy, declared herself universal heiress of the late king, Henry VIhttps://t.co/kv1tPMslJD pic.twitter.com/5WwX9yAPe2
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In 'Jane Segar, an artist at the Elizabethan court', @CCockburn2 drew attention to a volume made as a New Year's gift for Elizabeth I, featuring this incredible embroidered bindinghttps://t.co/zeOjOyYMKA pic.twitter.com/0tpnMp9EaJ
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And today you may have read 'A Tudor autograph book', also by @CCockburn2, about a Book of Hours belonging to Lady Joan Vaux, a member of the Tudor courthttps://t.co/x4zsxhiECN pic.twitter.com/eW9PI0s7zt
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Don't forget to check out 'A deathbed confession' by @RFMacLellan, concerning a court case in 15th-century England, involving an affair, a divorce and a love-childhttps://t.co/mxZIS1o7AN pic.twitter.com/0q2M3lFifs
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Another blogpost by @RFMacLellan is 'Mary had a little lamb', about the diet of the Tudor princess (and future Queen of England) and her householdhttps://t.co/UbY8ajGDuQ pic.twitter.com/8LM4hJq1QJ
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And don't forget, you can see the full list of all 93 volumes digitised here. We'll soon be publishing the list of charters and rolls in our Medieval and Renaissance Women project.https://t.co/3HouUADQ1A pic.twitter.com/eN788W09YU
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