richardasquith.bsky.social
Historian and researcher. Vintners’ Company archivist, secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art. Often at Berkeley Castle.
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Ah that's unfortunate! But will keep an eye out for it!
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Julia Boffey grapples with the difficulties of establishing political sympathies in short middle English #poetry, charting their social and literary connections and the ways in which the genre evolved throughout the Wars of the Roses 📜 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #medieval #literature
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Very interesting!
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Using surgical treatises, political writing, and the evidence of Henry VI's miracles, Tig Lang uncovers the significance and prevalence of the royal touch in healing scrofula during the 15th century 🤴 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #medieval #scrofula #MedicalHistory
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Compton Reeves assesses Edward IV's so-called 'enemies list', issued at the beginning of his reign and which named Henry VI as 'the Adversary'. Reeves considers the biographies of the men listed alongside Henry, and the rationale behind the list ⚔️ #medieval #MedievalSky #Skystorians #BookSky
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Sean Cunningham unpacks a dramatic chapter in the Wars of the Roses, demonstrating how legal records in The National Archives amply repay consideration and can add depth and personal stories to broader narrative accounts 🏰 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #medieval #London #WarsOfTheRoses #TNA #BookSky
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It features heavily in my forthcoming chapter! bsky.app/profile/rich...
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Very kind - thank you!
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Staying in #York, @dralrs.bsky.social takes a critical look at the Dean & Chapter's peculiar court act book to dig into the layered and complex existence of the 15th-century vicars choral, their social and sexual relationships, and the materiality of their everyday lives #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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One of my favourites - I have a replica of it on my desk and a draft essay on anti-executor inscriptions that I really ought to do something with…
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Lynda Pidgeon looks at the history of Barley Hall, #York, recounting both its salvage and renovation and the history of its #medieval occupants. Peter and Carolyn were for many years trustees of the Hall, so this essay has special resonance in their festschrift 🏛️ #Skystorians #MedievalSky #BookSky
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Margaret Kekewich examines the endlessly fascinating @britishlibrary.bsky.social Harley MS 7353 (an illustrated roll depicting the Yorkist cause), concluding that its pairing of biblical and contemporary scenes was based on a format popularised by the Biblia Pauperum 👑 #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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Highly appropriately for #StDavid's day (and entirely coincidentally), the great Ralph Griffiths charts the fortunes of the Kydwelly family from #Carmarthenshire throughout the Wars of the Roses as they moved to England for careers in royal service 🛡️ #MedievalSky #medieval #Skystorians #BookSky
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Robert Swanson tackles the complex 'afterlife' of Alberbury Priory, #Shropshire, following its dissolution by Henry V in 1414, piecing together the often strained relationships between the parish, the crown, and All Souls' College, Oxford, from a mass of documentary evidence ⛪ #Medieval #Skystorians
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Anne Curry's fascinating essay turns to 'the highest level of diplomatic exchange' in the middle ages: the rare face-to-face meetings of #kings. Focusing on Henry V and Charles VI, she sets out their tense political importance during the Hundred Years' War 👑 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #BookSky
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Next, in a magisterial and wide-ranging essay, Michael Hicks addresses the vexed question of #Parliamentary politics in #medieval England, bringing to life the personal concerns and power struggles that shaped how the nobility saw and presented themselves 👑 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #BookSky
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First, Heather Falvey recounts the @richardiiisociety.bsky.social's research weekends, the inception of which owed much to Peter & Carolyn. In addition to teaching valuable research skills, these events led (among much else) to the publication of the invaluable Logge register of #medieval #wills 📜
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And it’s nice, too, to see my photo of the Markeby brass in St Bartholomew the Less, #London, in Christian Steer’s essay
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And today, the anniversary of the death of his son, Charles II, who can also been found in the Court Room at Vintners' Hall (twice): once after John Michael Wright and once (probably posthumous and sans moustache) incorrectly labelled as William III #otd #London #art #skystorians #CharlesII
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*1461, not 1460!
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Two chantries were founded in the church by Edward IV following the battle, dedicated to Our Lady and St Katherine, but both were probably sited at altars in the main church. The Volka chapel was more likely originally a chantry chapel for Margaret Mortimer #medieval #church #Herefordshire
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A coincidence that we both posted about this simultaneously!
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Further details, including sessions and speakers, here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/01/22/i... (Kalamazoo) and here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/01/22/l... (Leeds)