@rlcj This is such a compelling image! Orientation, lighting, definition... Would you please consider making it available on Wikimedia Commons? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monument_to_Edward_II_of_England_in_Gloucester_Cathedral
#EdwardII #GloucesterCathedral

🪷 31 Jan 1942 is #DerekJarman's birthday. He is a Saint of #Antinous for films Sebastiane, Jubilee, The Tempest, #Caravaggio, #LastOfEngland, #EdwardII" plus stagings for #KenRussell & the #PetShopBoys also for his LGBTQ & Human Rights activism. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/01/derek-jarman-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

🪷 31 Jan 1942 is #DerekJarman's birthday. He is a Saint of #Antinous for films Sebastiane, Jubilee, The Tempest, #Caravaggio, #LastOfEngland, #EdwardII" plus stagings for #KenRussell & the #petshopboys also for his LGBTQ/Human Rights activism. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/01/derek-jarman-saint-of-antinous.html 🪷

@SJLahey How wonderful! Thanks for #GreatAltText, & for drawing my attention to this manuscript: I see there's a catalogue entry & images of 4 other kings at https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/medieval_manuscripts/medman/A_7.htm
#StatutaAngliae #EdwardII #StJohnsCollege #CambridgeUniversity

#edwardii #DerekJarman #IsabellaRossellini #deepcut

President Biden was pictured at the castle in #Carlingford - but this photo is Carlingford Friary, founded c.1305 by Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster. The Dominican friars played a part in an intriguing story, involving the earl's daughter-in-law the #LadyOfClare, a marriage planned by King #EdwardII to his, ahem, favourite, & an abduction... or did she elope?
🐦 🧵 on the #Greencastle Letter: https://twitter.com/ClaireFromClare/status/1475358804329918468

#manuscript #mystery #romance #14thCentury #medieval #medievodons @medievodons

In 1317, Edward II granted the friary of St Augustine a license to purchase land in Skirbeck in Lincolnshire and by 1328 there were twenty friars living there. By the time of the dissolution, the total area was calculated as covering about ten acres - half an acre of this was adjacent to St John’s churchyard.

Three centuries later, when the Poor Laws were enacted it became the responsibility of the local parish to provide for the poor and they were housed in workhouses. Boston was built on land that belonged to the friary. All that remains now is its frontage.

The building was designed by architect George Gilbert Scott (image two) and what remains today is used by Lincolnshire Social Services.

#lincolnshire #boston #skirbeck
#friary #staugustine #edwardII #workhouse #poorlaw #19thcentury #architecture #georgegilbertscott