The Basiliscoe Mercury 313

The Basiliscoe Mercury313


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Cultural- and international- news has been dominated by the fire at Notre Dame and we start with a roundup of that. As a homage, you will find another number of Paris-related items throughout the newsletter. Otherwise a quiet fortnight, some cannon, some maritime archaeology and quite a few stories about ancient arms and armour. Enjoy the Easter break.


Notre Dame Fire


Round up of the news

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/cathedral-of-notre-dame


Treasures saved and lost

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47937775


Why it is important

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/16/the-culture-inspired-by-notre-dame-paris



Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms


Weapons of the Terracotta army

https://popular-archaeology.com/art...servation-mystery-of-terracotta-army-weapons/


Chariot and horses in China

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-04/10/c_137965744.htm


Chariots in India

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/antiquity-of-indian-chariot/article26733989.ece


Anglo-Saxon sword mount found in Shropshire

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news...-mount-found-in-south-shropshire-is-treasure/


Feature- and new book- on the Anglo-Saxon Pioneer Helmet

https://www.northantstelegraph.co.u...xcavated-in-northamptonshire-quarry-1-8888750


1000 year old helmet found in Belarus- pictures!

https://eng.belta.by/society/view/u...iscovered-in-bobruisk-river-port-120061-2019/


The lure of special swords

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190403-the-enduring-fascination-with-legendary-swords


Beasts of assorted varieties- all mythical this week…


Here be dragons…

https://www.livescience.com/25559-dragons.html


And Unicorns

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190408-what-unicorns-mean-to-scottish-identity


Grave stories


Update on Egypt’s mummies in the Tomb of the Warriors- gory read!

https://www.livescience.com/65158-mass-grave-ancient-egypt-soldiers.html


Investigating 1637 massacre in New England

https://www.livescience.com/65144-17th-century-massacre-in-connecticut-jamestown.html


Castles, forts and battlefield


In Kirkwall, Orkney they were repaving Castle Street- guess what they found?

https://www.orcadian.co.uk/archaeological-discovery-uncovered-by-roadworks/


Walmer Castle’s lost garden restored

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...glen-walmer-castle-to-be-opened-to-the-public


Update on the future of Culloden field

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/consultation-to-shape-culloden-300

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/looking-ahead-to-culloden-at-300


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Short article on cannon in India; I would take the "locally made" with a pinch of salt, since the gun in the front is definitely European and probably Englishhttps://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/history-left-in-ruins/article26857240.ece


Old Swedish cannon fired in Capetown- the age needs a large pinch of salt!

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/rare-419-year-old-cannon-fired-in-companys-garden-20493269


Eiffel’s miniature cannon comes up for sale

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/modele-reduit-du-canon-de-la-tour-61971http://artdaily.com/news/112489/Gustave-Eiffel-s-cannon-to-go-under-the-hammer#.XK3EzzHsZ9A


Three German WWI Cannon to be restored

http://www.wdam.com/2019/04/10/shelby-museum-restore-three-wwi-german-cannons/


Café Basiliscoe


Street food in Pompeii

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/29/c_137934825.htm


And a glass of scotch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47879386


Miscellany


Leonardo’s war machines

https://theconversation.com/how-leonardo-da-vinci-made-a-living-from-killing-machines-112402


Article about hidden references to the US Civil War in 19th century art

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/pre...in-plain-sight-in-american-pre-raphaelite-art


Princesses and Amazons


Was the Polish general a lady?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/06/casimir-pulaski-polish-general-woman-intersex


And other women at war

https://theconversation.com/adventu...ldiers-and-cross-dressing-women-at-war-115126


Into the 20th century


Interesting article on a Scottish family in WWI

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-jacob-letters-from-the-house-of-dun


Nautical news


16th century copper wreck found off the Netherlands

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...eck-discovered-investigators-looking-missing/


Update on the Esmerelda

https://extra.timesofoman.com/artic...ng-Omans-past-Tale-of-the-Esmeralda-shipwreck


Short audio feature on the discovery of the Vasa

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47791179/finding-the-ship-lost-for-more-than-300-years


Update on the San Jose

http://www.maritimeherald.com/2019/...imillion-treasure-found-in-the-colombian-sea/


Update on the search for the Bonhomme Richard- spoiler alert- stalemate….

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/wreckage-of-historic-us-navy.html


Search for the last American slave ship

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-woman-survive-african-slave-trade-180971879/


Latest from the Franklin expedition

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/after-165-years-inuit-knowledge-leads-to-franklihttp://artdaily.com/news/112574/Air...aused-Brazil-museum-fire--police#.XK2_xTHsZ9A


How the US government shutdown affected the Smithsonian’s visitors

https://www.theartnewspapehttps://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/10042019-va-dundee-visitors-tourism


Museum developments


Funding special exhibitions

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-report-delves-into-hidden-economics-of-museum-exhibitions


Museum musings


Imperial War Museum launches season of War and Culture

https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelo...s-at-how-war-eradicates-culture-a4108641.html


Objects


The Buckhead gun

https://www.reporternewspapers.net/...hat-reputedly-killed-buckheads-namesake-deer/


The possible Van Gogh pistol to go on sale

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/van-gogh-gun-for-sale

http://artdaily.com/news/112526/Gun-that-Van-Gogh-killed-himself-with-goes-up-for-sale#.XK3CyjHsZ9A


The camera from the Great Escape

https://museumcrush.org/the-camera-used-to-make-forged-identity-cards-for-the-great-escape/


Exhibitions- lots of reasons to visit Paris…


Chivalric art in Paris

https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/expositions/expositions-en-cours-.html


Henry II in Paris

https://musee-archeologienationale.fr/actualite/henri-ii-renaissance-saint-germain-en-laye


Madame de Maintenon at Versailles

http://en.chateauversailles.fr/news/exhibitions/madame-maintenon-corridors-power


Picasso and War in Paris

https://www.musee-armee.fr/index.ph...detail&cHash=f574cf14b53fbe795657b56539cb81c5


Siege of Baler, Philippines, in Toledo

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/04/03/actualidadhttp://artdaily.com/news/112592/Exh...erstood-the-American-Revolution-#.XK2-ODHsZ9A


Books


Henri II à Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Une cour royale à la Renaissance -

https://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/fr...GVhdXgvNS1jYXRhbG9ndWVzLWV4cG9zaXRpb24vMS8%3D


Brian G. Awty: Adventure in Iron: The blast furnace and its spread from Namur to northern France, England and North America, 1450-1640; a technological, political and genealogical investigation

http://www.wealdeniron.org.uk/


Online Book


Jeremy Green on Carronade Island…

http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/default/files/no._215_carronade_is_gun_1.pdf



Popular culture


Medievalists and Games of Thrones

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/should-medievalists-be-teaching-game-of-thrones/


Victor Hugo and Notre Dame

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/medieval-elements-in-victor-hugos-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-of-notre-dame-book-tops-bestseller-list-fire


And the novel in French and English translation

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris

https://archive.org/details/notredame00hugogoog/page/n10


Events


Diary Dates


Easter in Vienna

https://www.hgm.at/


Events at Les Invalides

https://www.musee-armee.fr/index.php?id=5&L=0"


Events in Scotland 2019

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/03/where-to-find-the-middle-ages-in-scotland-in-2019/


19 – 22 April jousting in Leeds

https://royalarmouries.org/event/international-jousting-tournament-2019/


Conferences


10 May 2019 Leeds

The heart of the art of combat - exploring medieval manuscript I.33

https://royalarmouries.org/event/the-heart-of-the-art-of-combat/


Calls for papers


September 2019 Kyoto

ICOMAM 2019 Conference, Kyoto (Japan) http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/data/ima...8E-Qdx4KsoD_htE1_BHGVouQhJSu4YRKPyN4D4N8ckh3o


Sales, fairs and auctions


I May 2019 London

The Marine Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25337/


I May 2019 Edinburgh

The Sporting Sale

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25362/


20– 24 May 2019

Hermann Historica

https://www.hermann-historica.de/en/


Thomas del Mar dates for 2019

25 June & 4 December 2019

http://www.http://artdaily.com/news/112542/Wea...ctions--Ethnographic-Art-Auction#.XK3BpDHsZ9A



Websites and downloads


1066 etc girl knights, clerical knights & torture

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/the-boy-who-http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04...-skulls-warrior-clerics-with-craig-nakashian/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/04/medieval-torture-with-larissa-kat-tracy/


Finally


This fortnight I will be tweeting from our recent trip to the Netherlands

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –18 April 2019


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