Elegantspell

“I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." ~Queen Elizabeth I

[cottaqecore]

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[andallshallbewell]

[clairesbeauchamp]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 

day 1: favorite period drama

pride & prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright

[christmas-winter]

[voiceofnature]

[owls-n-elderberries]

[theladyelizabeth]

There has been such an uptick in portraits found of Elizabeth’s early days as queen recently and I’m LIVING for it!

[elegantspell]

[maureen2musings]

[jorindelle]

We have different memories of Mother. She doted on you, and she ignored me. She had eyes only for you and for Harbard. To me, she was cold and distant… I have very good reason not to feel so angry with Lagertha.—

—Well, you and I, Ubbe, we jumped under the ice because of her. So I don’t quite agree that we should kill Lagertha because of it.

[mycelticheart]

Aslaug fucking loved her children

[swyndol-gutterwort]

Still ignored them in order to get pounded by some weirdo who told tall tales…

[jorindelle]

honestly can people just fucking shut up with the aslaug bashing on my gifsets

[loveofromance]

Love me, that’s all I ask of you.

[jorindelle]

The ladies did change favours: and then we, Following the signs, woo’d but the sign of she.

[lady-arryn]

costume appreciation: Elizabeth’s wardrobe from Elizabeth: The Golden Age  [8/15] (costume by Alexandra Byrne)

[heaveninawildflower]

Botanical woodcuts taken from ‘Gart der Gesundheit’ by Hamsen Schonsperger.

Published 1487.

Missouri Botanical Garden  Biodiversity Heritage Library.

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000814712

[pagewoman]

Newark Castle

by John Waterhouse 

[jothelibrarian]

Medieval manuscript of the week is a unicorn! This is an illustration from a late medieval (circa 1550-1560) manuscript produced in Paris. The text is Greek, and the book is rich with eighty illustrations of animals. This image seems to conjure a unicorn by combining a lion with a hint of goat! Isn’t it great?

Image source: British Library MS Burney 97; image in the public domain.

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Anne Baker, Joan Willmot, and Ellen Greene, three of the  Witches of Belvoir

 The evidence of these wicked practises which forms the basis of this website  has survived in the form of a pamphlet and broadsheet ballad, both written by  John Barns in 1619. The pamphlet was entitled “The Wonderful Discovery of  the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillippa Flower, daughters of Joan Flower  neere Bever Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11th 1618”.