The Social Life of the Senses: Experiencing the Self, Others, and Environments

Woolgar, Christopher

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“…In royal residences headed by kings, chambers were not usually reserved for the use of individual servants within the queen's quarters. 67 Margaret had a far larger body of servants than her predecessors, however, the numbers being closer to those of the King than to other late medieval queens of England. 68 A chamber described as belonging to "barbilonz" at Greenwich most likely belonged to Barbelina Herbequyne, one of Margaret's unmarried ladiesin-waiting.…”

Section: Margaret's Palacementioning

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The Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2021: The Queen's House before Queen's House: Margaret of Anjou and Greenwich Palace, 1447-1453

Delman

2021

Royal Studies Journal

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Almost two hundred years before Inigo Jones completed the Queen's House for Henrietta Maria at Greenwich, another French-born queen consort of England had established the first queenly household there. In 1447, Margaret of Anjou acquired the riverside residence of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, on what is now the site of the Old Royal Naval College. Over the next five years, the Queen commissioned a substantial programme of building works at the site, which transformed the existing manor house into a royal palace. Margaret's reputation and exercise of power have been widely discussed, yet little consideration has been given to her building activities, and their broader implications for our understanding of her gender role as consort. Through its examination of the location, layout, and design of Margaret's palace, this article sheds new light on the ways in which the Queen deployed the built environment to articulate her power and status. More broadly, it contributes to scholarship on royal women's patronage and curation of domestic space, and that concerning the role of queens as agents of cultural transfer.

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Section: Margaret's Palacementioning

confidence: 88%

The Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2021: The Queen's House before Queen's House: Margaret of Anjou and Greenwich Palace, 1447-1453

Delman

2021

Royal Studies Journal

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“…54 This was a recognized and crucial aspect of judicial procedure, although authorities were also concerned about the abuse of this power in inappropriate situations. 55 The cry in revolt scenarios was an extension of a normal procedure for community defense.…”

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Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

Sizer¹

2015

Radical History Review

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There has been a striking continuity in some of the basic sonic features of popular revolt and protest since the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, as now, people descended into the streets en masse, marched, chanted slogans, shouted angry cries, and smashed things. As the recent Occupy and Arab Spring movements show, collectively seizing public space by imposing people's bodies and voices onto that space remains powerful today much as it did seven centuries ago. At the same time, the relationship between these immediate sonic events and their perception by those who were not direct witnesses is quite different. If the protesters at the 1968 Democratic Convention could chant "The whole world is watching" to Chicago police to remind them that they were on a global stage, the cries of the rebels in Bruges in 1302, London in 1381, or Paris in 1418 were seen -or, rather, heard -solely by those in proximity to the action.The tension between the immediate event and mediated experience exists, of course, in the modern era, but in the Middle Ages these moments of noise and clamor within the vital oral public sphere were at a particular disconnect with existing accounts of them, recorded in chronicles or court documents composed by clerical authors and others hostile to such popular expressions of political will. Because writing in the preprint culture of the Middle Ages was dominated by those generally (although not exclusively) sympathetic to power-holding elites, Radical History ReviewPublished by Duke University Press

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Multisensorial Musings on Miniature Matters

Dempsey

Jasperse

2020

Das Mittelalter

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This issue of 'Das Mittelalter' explores the voice of small things. 1 We approach artefacts that are no bigger than one's hand not as silent witnesses to people's lives, but as agents that actively engage with human beings through the senses, shape their social identities and evoke emotions. 2 For close to forty years or more, archaeologists have argued that medieval people understood objects to have particular social meaning as indicated by the curation of heirlooms, the re-use of prehistoric axes as grave gifts, or the special relationship to devotional objects such as pilgrim badges. 3 A similar situation exists across other cognate disciplines from discussions of seals in art history or the particular meanings of things in plays as discussed by literary scholars. 4 When the miniature scale is addressed, it

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The Social Life of the Senses: Experiencing the Self, Others, and Environments

Cited by 3 publications

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The Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2021: The Queen's House before Queen's House: Margaret of Anjou and Greenwich Palace, 1447-1453

The Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2021: The Queen's House before Queen's House: Margaret of Anjou and Greenwich Palace, 1447-1453

Murmur, Clamor, and Tumult

Multisensorial Musings on Miniature Matters

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