💙📚 This week I am attending a course about Anne Boleyn. Dr Owen Emmerson noted that Anne Boleyn used about thirty different spellings of her own name because spelling did not have rules in Tudor England.
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #SixteenthCentury #HistoricalResearch #HistoryMatters

Maltese Bransle: A #sixteenthcentury #dance from Arbeau's #Orchesography, 1589
Image: Turkish men and women in Codice de Trajes, c1547
National Library of Spain

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKY...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlydance #renaissance #16thCentury #16thC #earlymusicensemble #earlymodernsky

A True Tudor Love Story: Katherine Willoughby and Richard Bertie, Guest Post by Jo Romero I am so pleased to welcome back Jo Romero, a friend and follow history blogger. You can view her previous posts on a riot, dog and the George Hotel in Reading here, and Reading During the Wars of t…

The Tudor era seems to be filled with strong people. In this latest #voyagerofhistory guest post, I welcome Jo Romero at Love British History, to share about the marriage of Katherine Willoubghby and her husband, Richard Bertie. #historyblog #tudors #sixteenthcentury wp.me/pagtWm-10g

Today's #marginalmusician is a monstrous creature playing the #lute.
From La #DanseMacabre, c1500-1510
BNF Français 995

#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymodern #illuminatedmanuscript #lutenist #sixteenthcentury

It keeps me from licking myself. A painting from the 16th century of a woman wearing a huge wrap around the neck collar that was fashionable then

It keeps me from licking myself

#art #memes #SixteenthCentury

Um… about European heritage… batshit nuts like all humans

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This 1569 woodcut by Jost Amman shows a ram with wide, curving horns and luxuriant fleece looking directly at the viewer, hind legs poised to propel him forward. Being pointedly ignored seems preferable at this point.

Today's #sixteenthcentury recipe is for cold shoulder, but that is probably not where the expression comes from. It's actually pretty good.

www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/21/t...

#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #proverb

Cristoforo Grassi's "Veduta di Genova nel 1481" from 1597, Galata Museo del Mare. The port of Genoa with ships in the harbor.

A primer for next week's presentation #renaissance #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen #sixteenthcentury #earlymoderndiplomacy #genoa

Swiss papal guards, mid 1500s, by Giuseppe Rava: an Italian painter who works in a wide range of military history

#landsknecht #militaryhistory #militaryart #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #armor

Today's marginal #musicians are a selection of #trumpeters from Zeghere van Male's #chansonnier, c1542
Ca Ms 125-128.
www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1669/

#earlymusic #earlymodern #marginaliamonday #trumpet #trumpeter #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury #nakedtrumpeters #musiciansofcolour #johnblanke

The Cosmogony of a Sixteenth-Century Italian Miller | Weird Italy A heresy trial held in Friuli, Italy in the sixteenth century brings to light the complex cosmogony and worldview of a miller who stunned the inquisitors.

weirditaly.com/2021/12/29/t... Blessed are the Cheese Makers #worms #italy #cosmogony #sixteenthcentury #catholicbullshit

#RSA25 #RSABoston25 Renaissance Society annual meeting in Boston! #renaissancestudies #history #sixteenthcentury

Climate Chronicles: Transylvania’s Delayed Response to the Little Ice Age - Medievalists.net New research reveals that Transylvania experienced a delayed impact of the Little Ice Age, with historical records describing extreme weather events that shaped communities in unexpected ways.

Climate Chronicles: Transylvania’s Delayed Response to the Little Ice Age www.medievalists.net/2025/02/transylvania-lit... #ClimateChange #LittleIceAge #SixteenthCentury

Awwww, yisssss! #sixteenthcentury #earlymodern #medieval #skystorians #historysky #whatshistory

A #Tudor #carol for #Epiphany from Richard Hill's #CommonplaceBook, c1500-1536
Balliol ms354

Be merry all yat be present
Omnes de Saba venient

#tudors #earlymusic #earlymodern #magi #16thcentury #christmascarol #sixteenthcentury #manuscript

Please share widely. Let’s get #SixteenthCentury conversations going! #EarlyModern #SixteenthCenturySociety

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself.

#skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern

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#OTD 1523 Giulio Giuliano de’ Medici was elected as Pope Clement VII. Clement’s greatest contribution to European history was not his religious or political policy, but his commission to Michelangelo for the painting of the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. #sixteenthcentury #michelangelo

Yesterday's office.
So lovely to play #Tudor #music at the NPG yesterday evening.

#earlymusic #tudors #heritage #museum #nationalportraitgallery #musicianlife #musicianslife #historicalinterpretation #historythroughmusic #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #lute #lutenist #recorder #flute #rebec

A #16thCentury #stainedglass roundel showing a couple making music. The woman playing the #lute doesn't look particularly happy...
After Jan Swart van Groningen, c1530
Rijksmuseum
#earlymusic #lutenist #flute #earlymodern #sixteenthcentury #musicians

#Simone
#Switzerland
#Basel
#KunstMuseumBasel
@kunstmuseumbs
#HansHolbein
#TheDeadChristInTheTomb
#SixteenthCentury
#BriceDailyPhoto

#Musicians (singing and playing #lute, #harp and #viol) in the Garden of False Learning.
Needlepoint hanging (French 1550-1580) based on a woodcut by David Kandel, 1547.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #lutenist #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury

Some lovely details painted on the lid of this #16thCentury Swiss wooden box.
#Musicmaking and dining, with a seated woman playing #lute, standing man with #fiddle.
#earlymusic #earlymodern #materialculture #sixteenthcentury #violin #lutenist

The Sick Tune: an anonymous #sixteenthcentury ballad melody from MS Dd.9.33
Played by Sam Brown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HF...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #tudors #16thCentury #lutenist #lute #shakespeare #nashe #tudor #elizabethan

Music for travellers...

A lutenist plays during a carriage journey.
From the Album Amicorum of Joost van Ockinga, c1576
Koninklijke Bibliotheek

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury
#lute

John Jonson: Divisions on the popular Elizabethan melody Green Garters
From the Holmes Lute Books Ms.Dd.3.18

Sam Brown: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F8Z...

#earlymusic #youtube #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury

Passamezzo - Heritage Project - With Gold Embroidered Gorgeously: The Greensleeves Project Passamezzo provide historical music, dance and spectacle for concerts, heritage sites, education, special occasions and weddings.

A webpage with more details about the Greensleeves Project.
It will be updated as things progress :)
passamezzo.uk/greenproj.html

#historyoffashion #materialculture #interdisciplinary #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury #elizabethan

Rosemary Griggs - the clothes make the woman Author Rosemary Griggs’ latest novel, The Dartington Bride, is the second in the ‘Daughters of Devon’ series. She tells Richard Torne how strong women in a male-dominated world helped shape the countr...

I’m in the news - have a read of this article all about me, my writing and my new book in the Kingsbridge and Salcombe Gazette

www.southhams-today.co.uk/news/rosemar...

#historicalfiction #writing #sixteenthcentury #elizabethancostume

Lenten Stuff - a 16th Century satirical ballad for the season of Lent.
By William Elderton.
From MS Ashmole 48.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #PalmSunday #Tudor #Tudors #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury

#timetravel #sixteenthcentury #dissertation #research What a wonderful space The Nucleus is to study in! @HLHArchives