Claire BarnesClare Boat Club will be launching a new eight today 🥂
Pictured here, a wooden shell four in action for the 1978 May Bumps.
The ‘Lady of Clare’ is back! 🥂
In time for the Mays, in this 700th anniversary year. 🧵 5/
Yellow fire! 🔥
All who recognise the distinctive arms of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare, will be surprised to see a man in armour at #LeedsCastle bearing Clare family arms in a border she adopted after extinction of the male line. Meanwhile the horse wears... paisley? In her grandmother's castle, where fairies & dragons now also roam...
#heraldry #dreamscape @medievodons
#heraldry #dreamscape @medievodons
One day later, 27th March 1359, the statutes were ratified with seals of the Master & Fellows of #ClareCollege & the Chancellor of #CambridgeUniversity. The college seal commemorates the occasion, showing the statutes, which in turn mention the Master, Fellows, & seal.
@medievodons @histodons
#ClareCollege is celebrating its 700th anniversary. However it was #OTD 667 years ago, 26th March 1359, that Elizabeth #LadyofClare drew on decades of experience & signed the statutes. She wrote of education’s value to individuals & society, & her vision of one community of fellows & students, chosen on merit. Her principles & her language continue to inspire.
#legacy #philanthropy #education #CambridgeUniversity #GreatBardfield
The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15
Clare College Cambridge is celebrating its 700th anniversary with stories of 70 individuals spanning the centuries - 7 each month, wonderfully diverse.
https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/70-for-700/
#70for700 #LadyOfClare #DavidAttenborough
#ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity
@RichardAshwell In my mind's eye these are among the most beautiful rivers in the British Isles, as when #TinternAbbey was in its prime & the #LadyOfClare presided at #Usk. I hope they will be again.
Another shrine to Our Lady of Good Counsel is at #ClarePriory in England: established 777 years ago under the patronage of Richard de Clare & his wife Matilda; enlarged by his daughter-in-law Joan of Acre and granddaughter Elizabeth #LadyOfClare. The modern relief by Sister Concordia is based on the fresco at Genazzano. 🧵 2/2
#Augustinian #Clare #Suffolk
#Augustinian #Clare #Suffolk
@petergleick Adding a link to the UK equivalent, Hive, & an independent bookshop that I like to support:
https://www.hive.co.uk/Shops/Between-the-Lines-Great-Bardfield
- but if you can visit in person you will find additional books not available online, such as the new 'History of Great Bardfield' (with a chapter on its #14thCentury prosperity due to the #LadyOfClare). From personal experience, great conversations may ensue!
#IndieBookshop #bookshop @bookstodon
https://www.hive.co.uk/Shops/Between-the-Lines-Great-Bardfield
- but if you can visit in person you will find additional books not available online, such as the new 'History of Great Bardfield' (with a chapter on its #14thCentury prosperity due to the #LadyOfClare). From personal experience, great conversations may ensue!
#IndieBookshop #bookshop @bookstodon