Christ’s Poor Men. Perth’s Charterhouse and the History, Archaeology and Culture of the Carthusian Order in Medieval Britain. One-day Public Symposium Programme with archival exhibition Saturday 7 May 2022 The Soutar Theatre AK Bell Library Perth 09.30-17.30 From Foundations to Echoes in the Records. The Charterhouse and its place in Perth. (the Archival exhibition will…
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Kate Barlass – Catherine Douglas History, Myth and Modern Folk Tale Part 1 Historical Sources and the Legacy of one Dodgy Dundonian Professor Richard Oram Romance, myth and history have been closely interwoven in the many re-tellings of the life and reign of King James I that began almost immediately…
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Kate Barlass – Catherine Douglas History, Myth and Modern Folk Tale Part 2 Victorian Literature and the Making of the Modern Kate Barlass Professor Richard Oram Following George Gilfillan’s publication in 1860 of Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets most academic and antiquarian histories remained silent on the question of…
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A Fitting Funeral? The Memorials of Margaret Tudor Perin Westerhof Nyman University of St Andrews On 18 October 1541 Scotland lost its dowager queen Margaret Tudor, throwing her son’s royal household into mourning and triggering the flurry of work and preparations that necessarily accompanied a royal funeral. The queen’s body would have been embalmed…
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Margaret Tudor, Perth, and Margaret Douglas Helen Newsome University of Sheffield Despite being buried at Perth Charterhouse, we know surprisingly little about Margaret Tudor’s activities in the city of Perth. However, five of Margaret Tudor’s letters which were sent from Perth survive today, one of which offers a glimpse into Margaret’s relationship with…
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Pregnancy, Childbirth and Grief. Tracing the Children of Margaret Tudor. Amy V. Hayes The Open University and the University of the Highlands and Islands When Margaret Tudor arrived in Scotland in August 1503 she was thirteen years old. Even by medieval standards, this was a relatively young age for marriage and for the…
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