One of our recent uploads to Digitised Manuscripts is the indisputably fabulous Melisende Psalter (Egerton MS 1139); have a look at the fully digitised version here. This extraordinary manuscript is not only a superb example of 12th-century Crusader art, but also a fitting legacy for the remarkable woman for whom...
Plate #15a - Twelfth Century
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Number 6, 2015 Miss America 1967, Jayne Jayroe, visited Glencairn, where she was photographed with one of the Pitcairn family’s most beloved works of medieval sculpture: a tall, well-dressed woman of royal status who once surely rivaled her in style and elegance. This meeting of beauty queens, separated in time by 800 years, brought together two women representing the ideals of grace and refinement of their eras. Yet while shows like Mad Men have kept the styles of the 1960s current today, those of the 1160s can be more difficult to grasp. In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Julia Perratore, Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explains the twelfth-century ideals this remarkable sculpture represents.
This dissertation proposes that wonder is an initial emotional reaction to a novel phenomenon, and that scepticism, a form of cognition, necessarily follows when the phenomenon is sufficiently bizarre, or out of coherence with one’s prior experience.
Number 3, 2018 There is so much artwork to appreciate at Glencairn that visitors often pass by a certain elaborately-carved oak chair on the first floor without giving it a second glance. The chair was inspired by a twelfth-century Norwegian chair that was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century in a church in the village of Tyldal. The nineteenth century saw a revival of interest in woodcarving influenced by Norwegian Viking art, which became known as “dragon style.” Glencairn’s chair, hand carved in the Bryn Athyn woodworking shop in the 1920s, is significant—not only for the high quality of its workmanship, but for the story it tells about the circumstances that led to its creation.
Why – and how – were very large, elaborately decorated, multi-volume bibles made during the twelfth-century in England? We are very excited that Dr Christopher de Hamel will be coming to the British Library to consider these and many other questions in the 2014 Panizzi Lectures. The lectures will take...
The queens of twelfth-century England provide a prime example of how the queen was not, in fact, powerless in the rule of her realm, but rather a significant governmental official who had the opportunity to take a complementary part in royal rule that suited her strengths.
Putting the folk back into folklore since 2015!
Jon and Kevin are in the kitchen today making a big recipe: a 5-lb. twelfth cake. Twelfth cakes were the center attraction to Twelfth Night celebrations. The...
Innovadora lectura ideológica e iconográfica sobre la escultura románica del monasterio de Silos
After I came out, I started to look back for clues that I had somehow missed in my life, like the fact I skipped my senior prom to go see the last show of a band with a hot female singer I just was a REALLY BIG FAN OF. One of those clues was how …
The castle of Penne is a 12th century castle, located in the commune of Penne in the Tarn in the Midi-Pyrenees .Suspended in an almost unnatural position over the gorges of l'Aveyron it is now almost in ruins. The picturesque alleyway of the old village, lined with beautiful houses, leads to the fortress and you can also walk a themed trail, perfect for children. From the top of the chateau you can admire one of the most beautiful views of the Tarn region, from the hills to the vineyards of Gaillac, from the forest of Grésigne to the gorges of the Aveyron.
Visions flourish within particular domestic contexts and disciplines, and Christina enables us to glimpse a sub-culture of visionary experience in twelfth-century England, which rarely shows up in sources and is given little authority in the dominant narratives.
Gratianus : Decretum Gratiani Schäftlarn, um 1165 - 1170 Clm 17161 Folio 138
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Fencing Doublet. 1580. The Doublet jumped into the fashion scene around the middle of the 14th century. We are turning our attention to this article of clothing today to examine its essential role in fashion history. Doublets were worn for over 300 years and considered a staple in menswear. Although the shapes and cuts changed...
