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John McCafferty
@jdmccafferty.bsky.social
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A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4h
8 Oct: feast of St. Pelagia, the ex-prostitute who crossdressed as a male ascetic #otd
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4h
8 Oct 1632: d. Sir Francis Aungier in the former Whitefriars (Carmelite) house #otd which was later to become Aungier St #Dublin Aungier’s surname is lent to the planned street, the first post-medieval one, that now occupies the space.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4h
Portrait of woman by Quentin Metsys c. 1520 (Met Museum)

Her Book of Hours has nice clasps and her finger rings are stylish
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4h
Swan grooming on campus this morning
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6h
Wednesday 8 Oct, Dublin
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He was not executed till 1540. Nobody mourned him much to be honest.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h
A falcon hood, 1520-1530.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h
Lady Lee - Margaret Wyatt, born about 1509. Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger (Met Museum)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 16h
7 Oct 1643: John Lilburne, leveller, takes commission as a major in the Earl of #Mancester's Eastern Association army #otd (BM)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct: one of 2 feasts #otd of Osgyth, d. c.700 abbess of Chich, St. Osyth's #Essex is named for her #(SDawson) #nuntastic
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct 1655: Henry Fell arrives in #Barbados to begin a #Quaker mission there #otd (BL)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct 1651: d. Jacques Sirmond SJ, secretary to Claudio Acquaviva 5th #Jesuit General #otd
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Quiver, with arrows, c. 1550 Leather, silk embroidery, gold-plated silver. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Woman reading by Rembrandt van Rijn (Met Museum)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct 1645: #Winchester Castle surrenders to Parliamentary forces #otd (MKraft)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's fixer - a 1538 medal from the British Museum
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct 1529: Cardinal Wolsey surrenders the Great Seal of #England to John Taylor, Master of the Rolls #otd Wolsey was the last Cardinal chancellor of #England
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
7 Oct 1223: 16 year old Henry III receives submission of Llywelyn Fawr at #Montgomery #Cymru #otd (BM)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Cornelis van Poelenburgh The Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome, 1623 A slightly unusual angle on this monument. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
La Vierge à l'Enfant en gloire avec saint Antoine abbé et sainte Lucie 1590 Baldelli, Francesco (Musée du Louvre)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
The Naval Battle at Lepanto, a bird's eye view 7 Oct 1571 #otd (British Museum)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Joos van Craesbeeck (c. 1605/1608 - before 1662) Card Players, c. 1645 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
Head of an Old Woman Looking to Lower Right Preparatory for his St Elizabeth in S. Maria in Vallicella [the Chiesa Nuova] #Rome1584–86 Federico Barocci (Met Museum)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17h
William Laud, b. #otd 7 Oct 1573 and Charles I, executed 1645 and 1649 respectively, shown with a print of Cranmer, Ridley & Taylor, all executed 1555 on the wall. (British Museum, c. 1660-1699)
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