Charles II
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Issue 34 – May 2025
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageIn this issue of the Antiquary, we begin by looking at the background to one of days in the traditional English Spring calendar – Oak Apple Day, which commemorates the restoration of the monarchy and the miraculous escape of Charles II from the soldiers of the New Model Army after the battle of Worcester in 1651. Then we go back in time to look at some medieval examples of a common piece of church furnishing, the pulpit, and the evidence for their purpose and use in the context of medieval worship and parish life. Lastly, we cross both the English Channel and the Atlantic to look at a remarkable survival – a set of fine, courtly tapestries from early Renaissance France, now in New York. These tapestries, that once graced the hall of a high status patron, depict a unicorn hunt, set within luscious Spring flowers. We explore both the religious and secular meaning of the unicorn’s iconography.
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Issue 26 – September 2024
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThis month I have decided to depart from my usual pattern, and bring to you two articles, rather than my usual three. I found as I was writing the first article, that the character I was writing about was so compelling, and the intrigue he was embroiled in so complex, that he deserved more extensive attention than I would usually give. Titus Oates, was a compulsive liar, who in the pursuit of personal renown was responsible for the deaths of numerous men. His pathology is intriguing and difficult to understand, but he tapped into the anti-Catholic hysteria of his time. I felt that the ugliness of the character and story of Titus Oates, required an article that examined, in some depth, a work of great beauty – and so in my second article this month I focus on the ‘Golden Chapel’ at Tong in Shropshire. It is an incredible piece of highly decorated late medieval architecture. As well as looking at the works of art and memorials within it, I look too at the motivation, piety and devotion behind the creation of this extraordinary space.
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Issue 23 – June 2024
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWelcome to the June 2024 issue of The Antiquary. I often find when we start to write the magazine each month, that the articles begin to take shape and then common links and themes emerge between them – and this issue is no exception. The first article looks at the genre of Vanitas painting in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, a genre in which the artists through complex allegory reflect on the vanity of humanity’s accomplishments in the face of death. One of the paintings I focus on is an allegory of the life of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. Then we go on to look at the life of Jefferey (sic) Hudson, the court dwarf to Henrietta Maria – a man who found himself in many scrapes and lived a remarkable ans surprising life. Despite rising high (in court if not in stature!), he has no monument, and lies in a pauper’s grave and is largely forgotten. Lastly, is an article in which I lament the loss of a beautiful and beloved building, Goltho church in Lincolnshire, which was recently ravaged by fire. The running theme: that life, creation and people’s accomplishments are fragile indeed.
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Issue 14 – September 2023
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageWelcome to the September 2023 issue of The Antiquary. This month, there are two related articles on the British coronation regalia; the first tells the fascinating story of Colonel Blood, who audaciously tried to steal the regalia from the Tower of London in 1671. The second article on the theme focuses on the crown that Blood stole, the now-lost state crown of Charles II made in 1661 and broken up in 1714. Then, on a completely unrelated note, we look at the tradition of heraldic funeral hatchments, the first of a two-part series on heraldic funerals and funeral achievements.
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