Lady Joan Beaufort, the wife ofJames I, King of Scots, was born around 1404 in England. She was the third of the six children and the first of the two daughters ofJohn Beaufort, 1st Earl of SomersetandMargaret Holland. Her mother was the daughter ofThomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, t...
And there are deaths of numerous kings and mythological figures (such as Adonis, represented in a tapestry on the walls of Castle Joyous (3, 1, 34)) in the chronicles and embedded narratives. The rate of deaths and executions increases as the poem becomes more violent in Books 5 and 6,...
The poet Edmund Spenser writes to Helena, Marchioness of Northampton dedicating his poem “Daphnaïda: An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier” to her. Source Bell’s ...
King Edward VI. Which would make sense with the use of her signature. It is believed that Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Kateryn’s brother the Marquess of Northampton, her brother-in-law the Earl of Pembroke and the council ousted her and...
“We Three Kings” by Dante Di Stefano... I slide myself under our tree like a mechanic in a body shop & look up through the lights & orn 4.5k Shares “What Is My Life About?” by Julie Price Pinkerton... This naked, lonely question is still simmering in a crock pot on the cou...
If Lumens are loved (Happy Peasants)> Following Elodie's victory over the Shanjian king, the public opinion of Lumens rose to a height that hadn't been seen in a hundred years. Young children would dress up and play at being magical kings and queens. ...
If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times. But her Majesty did all by halves, and by petty invasions taught the Spaniard how to defend...
Everybody from Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, Kings of Leon and Midnight Oil took to the stage, all in the name of raising money for those who needed it most. Even Eighties rockers Hunters & Collectors reformed after ten years; a hug...
[N.B. Sisyphos and Glaukos were two mythical kings of Korinthos (Corinth) and Eumelos a Korinthian poet.]Leda and the Swan, Greco-Roman mosaic C3rd A.D., Cyprus Museum Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 7. 7 & 7. 10 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Aitolos...
Peace 'at Last Sight': The Other Face of 'Warchitecture' The first part of the title of this article purposefully recalls Walter Benjamin's interpretation of 'love at last sight' in connection with Charles Baudelaire's famous poem entitled 'To a Passerby' in his famous book 'The Flowers ...