The Basiliscoe Mercury 310

The Basiliscoe Mercury 310


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


Lady Vikings, Arthurian boars, cannon and rockets from India and Elizabethan miniatures go on show. And it’s warm and sunny outside, too.


Arms and armour in the news


Hunting round the world and through the ages


Famous boars in Arthurian literature(!)

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/famous-boars-in-medieval-arthurian-romance/


Hunter gatherers in Africa and the development of language

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190218153215.htm


Grave stories


Death in medieval Sicily

https://www.livescience.com/64788-medieval-sicily-stabbing.html


“Crusader’s” head stolen from Dublin church

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47364081


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Pontefract Castle and Richard II - not a happy association

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...ed-in-film-set-at-pontefract-castle-1-9590060


Investigating the medieval fortifications of Harfleur

https://www.inrap.fr/des-fortifications-et-un-habitat-du-moyen-age-harfleur-14148


Short feature about Fort Hammenhiel, Sri Lanka

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2019/02/24/spectrum/hammenhiel-fort-northern-sea


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right and things that go bang


Indian cannon inBijapur Fort found under rubbish cleared and moved!

https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes....-cannon-in-vijayapur/articleshow/68103295.cms


Revolutionary war grenades found and detonated in Virginia

https://www.whsv.com/content/news/R...es-found-detonated-in-Richmond-506242381.html


Update on the discovery of Tipu Rockets

https://www.outlookindia.com/websit...entury-rockets-discovered-in-karnataka/325669


Historic German WW I mortar back in Speers Point Park after restoration

https://www.lakesmail.com.au/story/...back-in-the-park-after-repairs-photos/?cs=750


Living in the past


Recreating a feather top for a helmet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47241677


Re-enacting is getting big in Argentina

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/reenacting-medieval-argentina/


Café Basiliscoe


Duelling over shipwreck beer

https://www.timesunion.com/news/us/article/Ale-from-1886-shipwreck-yields-new-brew-and-13632710.php


Miscellany


Scotland’s regalia and sword of state

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/heritage/829293/the-crowning-glory-of-scotlands-history/


Cranky theories about the Night Watch

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190214-does-rembrandts-the-night-watch-reveal-a-murder-plot


Princesses and Amazons


Update on the Viking Valkyrie grave

https://www.sciencealert.com/resear...s-study-showing-viking-women-warriors-existed


Fake Joan of Arc

http://mentalfloss.com/article/502026/joan-of-arc-imposter


Nautical news


Another ship burial found in Norway

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidn...-viking-era-discovery-in-norway/#526a4dcb335e


Update on the search for Cortes’ ships

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeologists-make-progress-in-search-for-ships/


Update on HMS Victory and its status

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...o8REuscqVda8gfj6t61KNoJsAQU_3CKIuatvRKvXDuMk#


Update on the search for the Endurance– spoiler– the ice got the sub…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-endurance-called-off-after-loss-of-submarine


Story of a lost Dundee whaler, found

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/...hip-was-discovered-in-dundee-after-116-years/



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Museum cannot account for its historical guns

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22052985/248-historical-weapons-disappered-from-trencin-museum.html


Frankfurt museums gets collection of 200 ivories

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/frankfurt-museum-acquires-more-than-200-ivory-sculptures


Time to look more closely at museum boards?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/museums-in-the-changing-world-order-a-https://menafn.com/1098161229/UAE-Al-Murabba-Police-Museum-opens-in-Al-Ain


Museum developments


UK public sculpture to be catalogued

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-sculpture-collection-to-be-catalogued-online


Cambridge make archive of post-war aerial photographs

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/landscapehistories/1


Museum musings


Perhaps museums are too peaceful…

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/just-places-for-a-bit-of-peace-and-quiet


European Parliament has views on restitution

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/european-parliament-calls-for-restitution-overhaul


What to do with all those out of fashion statues- corral them in a park

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2019/02/15/getty-monument/#37db272852c5


Back to walls…

https://www.historyextra.com/period...-walls-history-mexico-trump-china-great-wall/


Exhibitions


Miniatures in London

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...liver-review-national-portrait-gallery-london


Henry Moore and armour in London

https://www.wallacecollection.org/henry-moore/


Gloves at Bath

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/13/royal-and-jedi-handwear-stars-in-museums-glove-show

https://museumcrush.org/glove-stories-the-collection-of-the-worshipful-company-of-glovers-of-london/


Rembrandt in Amsterdam

http://artdaily.com/news/111339/His...brandt--the--first-Instagrammer-#.XGfYWjFCd9A


Renaissance Venice in Frankfurt

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/pre...-colour-in-largest-show-of-titians-in-germany


Treasures from the Lichtenstein collection in Vienna

http://artdaily.com/news/111385/Exh...ks-from-the-Princely-Collections#.XGkuMTFCd9A


Messina in Milan

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/pre...ent-continues-in-milan-following-palermo-show


London firearms at the Met

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/london-firearms


Moroni at the Frick

https://www.frick.org/exhibitions


Books


This is jolly- a feature on medieval fighting techniques

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/new-medieval-books-fighting-manuals/


Online book


All the ICOMAM MAGAZINEs in one place

http://network.icom.museum/icomam/publications/the-magazine/



Popular culture


New WWI drama being filmed on Salisbury Plain is causing a rumpus

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...henge-war-film-plans-hit-by-locals-objections



Events


Diary Dates


19 – 22 April jousting in Leeds - tickets the perfect valentine gift….

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


Conferences


6 -7 May, 2019 Maritime Museum of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia

Hobart Whaling Conference 2019

https://www.whalingconference.org/


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


17-18 May 2019 London

Trial by Fire conference

https://www.trialbyfireteam.com/submit-an-abstract


16-17 November 2019 Portsmouth

Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions: Ship and ordnance remains on land and under the sea

https://www.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/annual-conference


September 2019 Kyoto

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


12-13 2019September 12-13, 2019Paris

Craftsmen and metalworking in medieval cities: 35 years later

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02...talworking-in-medieval-cities-35-years-later/


Sales, fairs and auctions


News from Hermann Historica GmbH

http://artdaily.com/news/110977/Dis...uction-of-Hermann-Historica-GmbH#.XFlZGTFCd9A


2 March 2019 Olympia, London

The Fourth Antique Arms Fair Incorporating the Park Lane Arms

http://antiquearmsfair.com

http://artdaily.com/news/111600/The...lympia-London-on-2nd-March-2019-#.XHUARjFCd9A


14 – 15 March 2019

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


Thomas del Mar dates for 2019

25 June & 4 December 2019

http://www.https://www.rct.uk/collection


1066 etc: Agincourt, King Arthur & medieval heroes

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/battle-of-agincourt-michael-livingston/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/uses-abuses-king-arthur/

http://www.medievalists.net/2019/02/medieval-romance-hero/


Finally This fortnight I tweeted Castles of Cornwall

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –27 February 2019


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Thanks, Spring!!!! I scanned through some of that!!! AND some is absolutely fascinating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BeddieBye time for me now though!!! I hope to get back to check out some more!!!! Have bookmarked this page so I can!!!!