Margaret Beaufort,Royal Tapestries,and Confinement at the Tudor Court

The English royal household ordinances document the important role tapestries played in Tudor court ceremony. This paper re-examines one specific aspect of the 1493 ordinances: whether or not Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, dictated the textile practices surrounding royal childbirth. Once widely believed to have done so, scholars have abandoned the idea for lack of evidence. The issue is more complicated than it seems, in part because of longstanding bibliographic error and also because texts associated with two events involving Margaret — the birth of Princess Margaret and the publication of William Caxton’s Blanchardyn and Eglantine — suggest that she was highly attuned to the importance of royal spectacle as mandated by the household ordinances.     

The Legend of Lady Godiva

MITI E LEGGENDE. By RAFFAELE PETTAZZONI. I. Africa, Australia. Pp. xxviii + 480, 36 plates, 2 maps. 1948. 3,800 lire, paper. Torino, Unione tipograpfico-editrice torinese. Review by H. J. Rose.

STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND LEGEND, Vol. I, A to I. Pp. 531. Published by Funk and Wagnall's Company, New York. English Price £3. Review by R. M. Dawkins.     

The Lady Dicamat and friends from Wadi Beihan, S. Arabia

Three Qatabanian pieces are described: a fragment of a statue-base (private collection), with a rare feminine name; a male statuette, fully published only now (with corrections); and a female head — the last two items being in Liverpool Museum.     

吃人婆婆的故事

在很久很久以前,有个寡妇和她的三个女儿一起生活,大女儿叫门墩儿,二女儿叫门窝儿,小女儿叫门栓儿。有一天,寡妇对女儿们说:"门墩儿、门窝儿、门栓儿,我想去趟娘家,看看你     

The Duke's Parrot: The Earl of Leicester,the King's Children and the English Revolution

This article examines neglected evidence regarding the ongoing captivity of the children of Charles I, at the hands of the republican regime, long after the regicide in January 1649. While it is well known that the Long Parliament was anxious to attend to the education of the royal children, and to exert authority over their upbringing, and also that there were rumours during the 1640s about plans to install the youngest prince, the duke of Gloucester, on the throne in place of a deposed king, little attention has been paid to voluminous and intriguing evidence about their fate during the interregnum. The aim of this essay is to survey such sources, and to recover evidence of a political and parliamentary debate about the children's fate, not least in a situation where it was thought possible that they might provide a rallying point for royalists, and a security threat. That debates about their fate were protracted and convoluted is used to flesh out rather sketchy evidence – much commented upon by historians, but not taken very seriously – that there was an ongoing debate over a possible monarchical settlement until 1653.     

Lady Gregory's The Gaol Gate,Terence MacSwiney and the Abbey Theatre

In September 1920, a French translation of Lady Gregory's 1906 play The Gaol Gate was staged in a Parisian drawing room. The play's original setting outside the gate of Galway Gaol was transferred to Mountjoy Prison at a time of republican hunger strikes. The drama's central character of Denis Cahel – refusing to inform on his neighbours and hanged as a consequence – gained contemporary currency with Terence MacSwiney's hunger strike and impending death as both men had turned their bodies into a political tool. With a focus on the concept of the political body, this article illustrates the power of The Gaol Gate by tracing the play's provenance and production history, demonstrating its flexibility through performance in a particular historical context.