Claire BarnesFeb 2, 2024

64lbs of costly candle wax was allocated to the #ClareCastle chapel for the feast of #Candlemas, a favourite of the #LadyOfClare, when light blazed in midwinter & candles were brought to be blessed.

She would have been familiar with this #CanterburyCathedral window depicting the Presentation of Christ in the Temple - very tall candles here!

πŸ“· Lawrence OP, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/32543795371

#StainedGlass #medieval @medievodons

Canterbury Presentation

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Show threadClaire BarnesFeb 18, 2023
#PhilippaOfClarence inherited #ClareCastle in Suffolk, with its gardens laid out by her stylish great-grandmother Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare. She also inherited #Usk, & it was among those title deeds that her husband's Mortimer family preserved a transcription of Elizabeth's furious indictment of tyranny, dictated in secret in 1326 & rediscovered in the 1950s. She had 4 children by age 21, & died not long after: her descendants include the #HouseOfYork. 🧡 3/
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Show threadClaire BarnesDec 17, 2022

The newly-discovered ships were built in the lifetime of the #LadyOfClare. Household accounts from #ClareCastle in #Suffolk record purchase of fish from Iceland, candlewax from LΓΌbeck, & wine from the Rhine.

When we republished her biography, #ForHerGoodEstate, our map showed the barrels arriving from Northern Europe...

on a ship like the C13th Bossholmen cog, here drawn by Jon Adams & photographed by Kester Keighley:
https://cma.soton.ac.uk/when-is-a-cog-not-a-cog/

#ShipType #ShipConstruction #MaritimeArchaeology

When is a cog not a cog? - C.M.A.

When is a cog not a cog? Among the many amazing shipwrecks discovered in the last two seasons of the Black Sea MAP, one of the most impressive visually as well as historically is the Medieval ship, probably of Mediterranean

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