Medievalismo
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EL EVANGELIO DE SAN CUTBERTO Una de las joyas bibliográficas de la Alta Edad Media es el Evangelio de San Cutberto, considerado el libro intacto conservado más ...antiguo de Europa. Este manuscrito fue escriturado a finales del siglo VII en el norte de Inglaterra, probablemente en Wearmouth-Jarrow. Lo adquirió la British Library en 2012 por unos nueve millones de libras gracias a la aportación de una campaña pública para recaudar fondos que cubrió buena parte de esa cantidad. El Evangelio de San Cutberto, antiguamente conocido como Stonyhurst Gospel, es en realidad una copia en escritura carolina del Evangelio de San Juan. El santo insular, que murió en el año 687 de nuestra era, fue enterrado con este códice en el priorato de la isla de Lindisfarne, en la costa de Northumbria. Para evitar el saqueo vikingo, su féretro fue llevado a Durham en el 793 y allí permaneció en su catedral hasta que fue abierto en 1104. En ese momento se descubrió este pequeño manuscrito, podríamos llamarlo de bolsillo, muy probablemente destinado a la lectura en la intimidad de la celda, que a día de hoy conserva en un estado excepcional su encuadernación revestida en piel roja. Ésta muestra una bonita decoración geométrica impresa en el cuero a base de hierros (placas de metal y rueda) con una técnica en frío. La vida de San Cutberto, uno de los santos más conocidos de la Inglaterra medieval, fue narrada por Beda el Venerable. El polígrafo nos cuenta en ella que con un solo pelo suyo era suficiente para curar los ojos de los que creían en sus milagros. El códice es el manuscrito 89000 de la British Library y ha sido digitalizado por esta institución. En su web se puede consultar su contenido. Ver en este enlace: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx

I photoshopped the BBC Hollow Crown to be more historically accurate. The Hollow Crown is a BBC drama adaption of Shakespeare’s English history plays. Tom Hiddl...eston plays Prince Hal, later to become King Henry V, famous victor of the Battle of Agincourt. In 1403, a young prince Henry with his father King Henry IV marched against rebels lead by Henry Hotspur Percy. The battle of Shrewsbury was Prince Henry’s first battle, and the teenage prince lead his own section of the royal army. A contemporary chronicler wrote. Prince Henry, fighting his first battle, was shot in the face by an arrow; boy though he was, he did not falter, but with courage beyond his years, disregarding his wounds -Thomas Walsingham The arrow penetrated six inches into his left cheek, and pieced into his actual skull. Henry however already showed signs of the warrior king he was going to become, fought on. What makes this even more impressive, is that he was only sixteen. The arrow wound came very close to threatening the Prince’s life. But the head of the arrow, lodged in his skull was removed with an amazing implement especially designed for the princes wound. Sadly Shakespeare ditched this episode in favour of a dramatic duel between Prince Hal and Henry Hotspur. So, that’s what we get in the show. Henry’s wound must have left a pretty impressive scar. Some historians have argued he must have been hit in right cheek not the left, since a portrait shows him in profile, with a scarless left cheek. However, this is a somewhat suspect. The portrait in question is 16th or 17th century. There are no detailed contemporary portraits surviving of what Henry looked like. The silver head of his tomb effigy was stolen in 1546. So if you have a silver head that might be Henrys, Westminster Abbey would very much like it back. In the show the Prince wears a short mail shirt. Entire mail shirts were still often worn by noblemen, but it would be under the plate armour. The English in particular were beginning to break up their mail shirts. So that mail was only used where it was needed, to cover the gaps and joints in the plate armour. While you might find a more lightly armoured Italian nobleman, sporting mailed sleeves. Mailed sleeves on their own were not considered adequate protection for an English Nobleman in 1400. Plate armour enclosed the whole armour. Almost none of the English field armour survives from this period, but we can get a good sense of what English knights were wearing from surviving tomb effigies. I’ve primarily based the princes armour on Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, who’s tomb dates from around 1402. The armour is tailored to the individual. It fits exactly providing excellent mobility, and is highly decorative. The gold decoration does not indicate parade armour. What better way to demonstrate you wealth and status, by potentially destroying your priceless armour on the battlefield. Thankfully, the prince in the show does wear a breastplate. Which is correct. Although it is very badly shaped. 15th century breastplates were rounded, to help blows glance off. They taper sharply at the waist, giving the figure that fashionable wasp-waisted look. Over breast plate, most knights wore a textile garment. There were various options available. Different forms of tabard, jupon or surcoat. In this case I’ve given him a sleeveless jupon. Henry would probably have been sewn into this garment to achieve the close-fitting look. A similar embroidered royal jupon appears on the effigy of Prince Edward, the Black prince. Who died 27 years before the battle at Shrewsbury. The tight fit allows you to see the shape of the breastplate underneath. It was the fashion to wear a low slung plated belt over this. On his head he wears a bascinet helmet with a coronet. The English knight did not always wear a visor, but I’ve decided to include one in this reconstruction. The coronet would have been made specifically for the helmet. Surviving designs show that the crown would have been flush with the skull of the helmet. He is not wearing a full mail hood or coif. The mail is a curtain, actually attached to the rim of the helmet. This is helping to save on weight. There is a sword from Westminster abbey attributed to Henry V, but experts now think this sword to be a style that dates to end of the 15th Century and therefore unlikely to belong to Henry. I’ve given him a long sword. This is based on a beautifully preserved sword found in a river in Cambridgeshire, dated to around the 1400.

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"Todos se habían retirado; nadie, ni grande ni pequeño, quedó en el dormitorio. Judit, puesta en pie junto al lecho, dijo en su corazón; "¡Oh, Señor, Dios de toda fuerza! Pon los ojos, en esta hora, a la empresa de mis manos para exaltación de Jerusalén. Es la ocasión de esforzarse por tu heredad y hacer que mis decisiones sean la ruina de los enemigos que se alzan contra nosotros". Avanzó después hasta la columna del lecho que estaba junto a la cabeza de Holofernes, tomó de ...allí su cimitarra, y acercándose al lecho, agarró la cabeza de Holofernes por los cabellos y dijo "¡Dame fortaleza, Dios de Israel, en este momento!" Y, contodas sus fuerzas, le descargó dos golpes sobre el cuello y le cortó la cabeza. Biblia de Jerusalén, Libro de Judit 13: 2-8 Imagen de la Biblia Historiada de Maître du Roman de Fauvel, folio 236, siglo XIV, resguardada por la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia.