'Fictions of History' Unit
literature, Hobart, Ivanhoe, medievalism literature, Rosemary Gaby, Tasmania, university, universities, historiography, fiction, fictional, University of Tasmania, UTAS, Walter Scott
Undergraduate unit ‘Fictions of History’ offered at the Hobart campus of The University of Tasmania (Coordinator: Dr Rosemary Gaby). The unit investigates how the past is represented in literature and includes Sir Walter Scott’s novel set in the medieval period, Ivanhoe.
Gaby, Rosemary
University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania
15 June 2011
Rosemary Gaby
Weblink
English
(Former) St Mary’s Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania
Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford, crenelation, Health Department, Hobart, hospital, William Porden Kay, Lands and Survey Department, parapet, St Mary’s Hospital, Tas, Tasmania.
The former St Mary’s Hospital is on the corner of Davey Street and Salamanca Place, at the rear of Parliament House, in Hobart, Tasmania. Designed by William Porden Kay (1809-1870), it was built as a private sixty bed hospital for Dr Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford (1809-1876), with the foundation stone being laid in 1847. After the hospital closed in 1862 the building was used by the Lands and Survey Department and then the Health Department. The building has a crenelated parapet above the second storey, and another above the pointed arch entrance.
McLeod, Shane
October 6, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
(Former) St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church entrance, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania
James Blackburn, blind arcading, columns, convict, John Franklin, Glenorchy, Hobart, Kirk and Fisher, Neo-Norman, Presbyterian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania.
<p>The former St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church is in the suburb of Glenorchy in Hobart, Tasmania. It was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in 1839. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in 1839 and the church was built by the Hobart company Kirk and Fisher and completed in 1841. The church is in the Romanesque Revival style and is one of the earliest remaining Romanesque Revival buildings in Australia. The style is evident in the entrance to the church featuring a semi-circular arched doorway and door, and on the blind arcading above the doorway. The doorway also decorated columns and decorated molding on the doorway arch.</p>
<p>Romanesque Revival architecture is sometimes referred to as Neo-Norman due to the Normans influence in spreading the Romanesque style through England after their conquest in 1066.</p>
<p>For more of the building see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a>
Digital Photograph
(Former) St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church rear window, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania
James Blackburn, capital, columns, convict, John Franklin, Glenorchy, Hobart, Kirk and Fisher, Neo-Norman, Presbyterian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania, tracery.
<p>The former St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church is in the suburb of Glenorchy in Hobart, Tasmania. The church is in the Romanesque Revival style and is one of the earliest remaining Romanesque Revival buildings in Australia. The style is evident in the rear window of the church, made up of three narrow windows featuring tracery with semi-circular arches, above which are two small circular windows. The window frame also has a semi-circular arch, with columns and capitals on either side of the window.</p>
<p>St Matthew’s was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in 1839. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in 1839 and the church was built by the Hobart company Kirk and Fisher and completed in 1841.</p>
<p>Romanesque Revival architecture is sometimes referred to as Neo-Norman due to the Normans influence in spreading the Romanesque style through England after their conquest in 1066.</p>
<p>For more of the building see</p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a></p>
<p><a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1211</a></p>
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Digital Photograph
(Former) St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania
James Blackburn, blind arcading, buttress, cemetery, columns, convict, John Franklin, Glenorchy, Hobart, Kirk and Fisher, Neo-Norman, Presbyterian, Romanesque, Romanesque Revival, semi-circular arch, Tas, Tasmania, tower, tracery.
<p>St Matthew’s Presbyterian Church is in the suburb of Glenorchy in Hobart, Tasmania. It was designed by the convict architect James Blackburn (1803-1854) in 1839. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) in 1839 and the church was built by the firm Kirk and Fisher and completed in 1841. The church is in the Romanesque Revival style and is one of the earliest remaining Romanesque Revival buildings in Australia. The style is evident in the use of semi-circular arches on the windows, doorway, and the blind arcading above the doorway. The building also has buttresses, a large square corner tower, and three smaller octagonal corner towers. The church is unusual in having its cemetery at the front of the building.</p>
<p>Romanesque Revival architecture is sometimes referred to as Neo-Norman due to the Normans influence in spreading the Romanesque style through England after their conquest in 1066.</p>
<p>For a close up photograph of the entrance see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a></p>
McLeod, Shane
November 21, 2012
No Copyright
<a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1213</a>
3xDigital Photograph
38 Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania
Crenellation, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Hobart, lancet windows, parapet, Romanesque, Tas, Tasmania, tower.
This building is at 38 Davey Street in central Hobart. It is at the rear of Parliament House and is part of the proposed Parliament Square redevelopment. The building adjoins the former St Mary’s Hospital building and early photographs show that it was built sometime between 1870 and 1890. The three-storey sandstone building combines Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture. Romanesque features are the semi-circular arched entrance and rounded arch windows on the top level. The four lancet windows in the centre of the top level are Gothic in style. The building also has a crenelated parapet.
McLeod, Shane
October 6, 2012
No Copyright
Digital Photograph
‘Home-made medieval war machine goes off with a bang’
ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ballista, counterweight trebuchet, crossbow, Hobart, Doug Pattison, performance, Carol Raabus, re-creation, siege, siege engine, Tas, Tasmania, trebuchet, war, website.
<p>This online article by Carol Raabus was posted in 2009 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Hobart page. It is about local man Doug Pattison and his re-creation of siege engines. He has built a trebuchet, first used in the twelfth century, and a ballista (a large version of a crossbow), which was first used by the classical Greeks and remained popular until replaced by the trebuchet. Doug sometimes gives public performances of the weapons.</p>
<p>For the story, including a clip of the trebuchet in action, see <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2009/04/21/2548797.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2009/04/21/2548797.htm</a></p>
Raabus, Carol
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
April 21, 2009
Carol Raabus; Australian Broadcasting Corporation
hyperlink
‘Living by the sword’
Adult education, education, Elizabethan, Stephen Hand, Hobart, Leatherwood Online, ‘Living by the sword’, performance, rapier, re-creation, Vincentio Saviolo, George Silver, Stocatta School of Defence, sword, swordsman, Tas, Tasmania, Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery, website.
<p>The anonymous online article ‘Living by the sword’ appears in volume 4 of the Leatherwood Online – Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery website and was posted in June/July 2007. It is about professional swordsman Stephen Hand of Hobart, Tasmania. Stephen teaches writes about, performs, and choreographs medieval and Elizabethan sword fighting. His technique is based on the late sixteenth-century works by Italian rapier master<br />Vincentio Saviolo and the Englishman George Silver who favoured a more traditional backsword. Stephen helped establish the Stocatta School of Defence in Sydney in 1998 and a Hobart branch in 2004, and also teaches adult education classes. </p>
For the article see <a href="http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/index.php/weblog/comments/living-by-the-sword/">http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/index.php/weblog/comments/living-by-the-sword/</a>
Anon.
Summerhill Publishing Pty Ltd / Leatherwood Online
June/July 2007
Summerhill Publishing Pty Ltd / Leatherwood Online
Online article; hyperlink