earlymusicTO2d ago
"Eliza is the Fairest Queen" by Edward Johnson for #QueenElizabethI
sung by #MollyNetter & The Voice of the #Viol consort
The song was first performed in September 1591 as part of an entertainment for the Queen hosted by the Earl of Hertford at Elvetham in Hampshire.
https://youtu.be/x4pzk6WoSA4 (1:51)
Molly Netter, soprano
L to R: Wendy Gillespie, Elisabeth Reed, Farley Pearce, & William Skeen
#elizabethan #viols #violadagamba
caoimhín scottMar 21
The Iglesia De San Benito and Monasterio de San Benito (Carmelitas Descalzos) are
#elizabethan #gothic and #renaissance styled #benedictine #church and #monastery built between 1499-1515. The original front bell tower included two additional sections in height. Those were demolished in the 19th century. #religiousarchitecture #architecture
Images George RexFeb 25
Southover Grange / II
Elizabethan house built 1572 in Lewes, Sussex
#architecture #photography #lewes #elizabethan
https://flic.kr/p/2rYnga7
Images George RexFeb 24
Southover Grange / I
Elizabethan house built 1572 in Lewes
#architecture #photography #monochrome #elizabethan #lewes #ccbysa
https://flic.kr/p/2rY6JzM
earlymusicTOFeb 19

“Care-Charming Sleep” by Robert Johnson (1583-1633)
#JamesBowman #countertenor
#RobertSpencer #lute
https://youtu.be/DDMoER6kSWM (2:10)
#Elizabethan #LuteSong
from the album "Elizabethan Lute Songs - Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary"
℗ 1972 Parlophone Records Limited Remastered (p) 2019 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company

Care-charming sleep,
thou Easer of all woes,
brother to death,
sweetly thyself dispose
On this afflicted night
fall like a Cloud in gentle show'rs...

2tout2rienFeb 2

🛏️👑 Un lit à baldaquin élisabéthain du XVIe siècle, réalisé pour la nuit de noces de Sir John Radclyffe et Lady Anne Asshawe dans les années 1570.
Entre sculpture, symboles et “statut social en bois massif”, c’est le genre de meuble qui ne dit pas juste “bonne nuit”… il dit “dynastie”.

Vous dormez là-dedans… ou vous n’osez même pas vous asseoir de peur de froisser 450 ans d’histoire ? 😅
#Histoire #Elizabethan #Artisanat #Patrimoine #Insolite #MobilierAncien

PugJesusJan 27

Shakespearean PCM

Mandatory note: Serfs are peasants, and England and Scotland had abolished serfdom at this point.

Andrea Clayton VailJan 26
Behold! The #Elizabethan era sleeping bag!
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 18

SPEAKING OF HISTORY…

"The past is an underused tool," Degroot says. "I think by trying to identify the complex and diverse ways in which people responded to history's climate changes, we can come up with new tools for understanding how we might respond in the future and for identifying responses that are constructive versus destructive." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm

#architecture #design #Elizabethan #solarpunk

'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

BBC
earlymusicTODec 15

Anthony #Holborne's 5-part setting of "Nec Invideo," published in "Pavans, Galliards, Almains and other Short Aeirs" (London, 1599)

The Voice of the Viol
Elisabeth Reed, director
Musicians: (L to R)
Hanneke van Proosdij #renaissance #recorder,
Wendy Gillespie, Elisabeth Reed,
Farley Pearce & William Skeen, #Elizabethan #viols
https://youtu.be/HxeehvRHJaQ?si=aXqkZhZ0aonfBM0z (1:35)