Gothic Revival
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Issue 27 – October 2024
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageThe two articles this month are quite unintentionally linked by the theme of Italian exile. In the first article we look at the life of Sir Robert Dudley – the son of the Elizabethan courtier, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. He was born out of wedlock, primarily as his father was still hoping to marry Elizabeth I. His life was entirely shaped by the circumstances of his birth. He spent the last forty years of his life in Italy, where as a man of great ability he had a very productive life – but he entered a bigamous marriage there, and left behind in England a wife and family who had to fend for themselves. The second exile was William Beckford, who was the wealthiest man in England in his lifetime. His wealth was inherited when he was ten and was built upon the profit of plantations and slaves. His ten years of exile, were a consequence of social disgrace. He returned to a self-imposed exile in which he poured all his money and his soul into one of the most extraordinary fantasy buildings ever constructed in England: Fonthill Abbey. The study of the past very often brings us face to face with actions and behaviours that makes us uncomfortable, and social rules that are seemingly inexplicable. The story of these two individuals, are no exception. Although men of great ability, their lives were shaped by the actions of others and the social norms of the times they lived in, but their behaviour was, at times, also deeply questionable.
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Issue 1 – August 2022
£6.47 – £8.47 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageQuite unintentionally, but with serendipity, the editor is rather glad that the articles offered this month have themed themselves – in essence, the first three articles are all about the way the genius of individuals can be realised through a sharing of ideas and how that can infect others with a creative spark. We begin by looking at Sir Thomas More and how his connection with the great thinkers of his age led to the publication of his magnum opus ‘Utopia’, a book that launched the artistic career of Henry VIII’s court painter Hans Holbein. Then in a profusely illustrated article, we look at one of the delicious works of the ecclesiastical designer Sir Ninian Comper and how his relationship with the Duke of Newcastle and their joint love of the Middle Ages resulted in the creation of a Gothic, devotional fantasy at Egmanton in Nottinghamshire which still delights us today. Lastly, because the editor fancied being a little askew, the final article focuses on a man who couldn’t be more different to the gregarious More and Comper, a man who withdrew from the world: his name is John Bigg, a peculiar misanthrope – whose story is both odd and unresolved.
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