Extraordinary Stories Exhibition, Perth
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These photographs are of advertising for the Extraordinary Stories exhibition at the Perth branch of the Western Australian Museum. The signs feature a photograph of a queen piece from the twelfth century Isle of Lewis chess set found in modern-day Scotland but probably made in Norway. The text on the A-frame sign the playing of chess as part of its advertisement, making the medieval image ‘speak’ to a modern audience. The exhibition included many items on loan from the British Museum, including the sixteenth-century Phoenix Jewel of Elizabeth I of England, which is also included in one of the photographs.
For an extended review of the exhibition see Erin Jackson Vis, 'A commonwealth of stories', Review of The Extraordinary Stories Exhibition, The Western Australia Museum, in History Australia, Vol. 9, No. 2, Aug. 2012, pp. 178-180.
Photographs: Shane McLeod
Advertisements: Western Australian Museum
January 29, 2012
Photographs: Shane McLeod
Advertisements: Western Australian Museum
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Queen Guenever as a nun
Abbess, Almesbury, art, Arthur, Arthurian, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), convent, death, Guenever, Guinevere, illustration, J.M. Dent & Sons, Le Morte d’Arthur, nun, nunnery, penance, queen, SA, South Australia, Thomas Malory
This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte d’Arthur. Upon hearing of Arthur’s death in the final book, his queen Guinevere goes with five ladies to a nunnery at Almesbury. Here she leads a virtuous and penitential life of fasting and prayers, dressed in white and black, until her own death years later. The work was created by Aubrey Beardsley for a nineteenth-century illustrated edition of Le Morte d’Arthur, which was issued in 12 parts between 1893 and 1984 by London publisher J.M. Dent & Sons.
Beardsley, Aubrey
Art Gallery of South Australia
c. 1893
Art Gallery of South Australia
line-block reproduction on paper, 20.8 x 16.0 cm;
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Carnivale King and Queen, Balingup Medieval Carnivale
Balingup, Balingup Medieval Carnivale, carnival, fair, king, queen, recreation, royal court, Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup, South-West WA, WA, Western Australia
A photograph of the King and Queen of the Balingup Medieval Carnivale. The royal couple, accompanied by members of their court and guards, took part in the parade each day and then sat in state in the royal tent in the combat arena.
McLeod, Shane
27 August 2011
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Digital Photograph; JPEG
SIMS Medieval
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In SIMS Medieval, the latest instalment of the virtual reality SIMS computer game series, players control a number of different heroes and characters ranging from kings and queens to knights, merchants, priests and blacksmiths. They send these characters on quests to earn points, and use these points to build a medieval kingdom. They can then ‘negotiate treaties, conduct trade or declare war on surrounding kingdoms’.
SIMS Studio
EA Games
EA Games
March 2011
EA Games
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"Rumpelstiltskin" Pan Pow Productions stage performance at Monash University, 1974
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A Photograph of Act 1, Scene 4 from a 1974 stage performance of "Rumpelstiltskin" at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, featuring Beverley Gardiner as Gretchen and Penelope Richards and Paul Kennedy as the two knights.
“Rumpelstiltskin†is a children’s fairytale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It was first written in 1812 and expanded in 1857. It tells the story of a Miller’s daughter who is forced to spin straw into gold on threat of her life for three successive nights. A little man appears and offers to spin the straw for reward. On the first night she gives him her necklace, on the second her ring but on the third she has nothing to give and promises him her first born child. Years later, after she has married the king and has her first child, the man appears and gives the queen three days to guess his name or he will take her child. After two days of guessing to no avail, the queen’s messenger (according to the 1857 version) stumbles upon the man dancing and singing in a house in the forest. The song he sings mentions his name, which the queen correctly reveals the following day. Although no date is given in the tale, the characters - involving a king, a queen and royal knights - and the importance of the spinning wheel are often assumed to indicate a medieval setting.
Anon.
Monash University Archives
Monash University
1974
Monash University
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The Illuminations of Melbourne - the General Post Office
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Image of the Melbourne General Post Office at night. The building was illuminated to celebrate the arrival of Queen Victoria to Australia. The lights on the building read "God Save the Queen" and "Long May She Reign." It was a medieval custom to decorate such things as streets, buildings and gates in honour of royal progresses, partly as a demonstration of loyalty to the monarch.
The Illustrated Australian News
The Illustrated Australian News
The Illustrated Australian News
25 June 1887
The Illustrated Australian News
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To Hold the Bridal Veil
Bandeau, bridal fashion, coronet, fashion, hair, hairstyle, head-dress, medieval fashion, medieval head-dress, medieval style, medieval dress, medieval queen, queen, pearl, Riche of Hay-Hill, tiara, vogue, medieval vogue
In these pages, the latest fashion advice from London regarding bridal headgear is relayed. The article begins by informing readers that wealthy English brides were wearing diamond tiaras on their wedding days. However, it surmises, it was unlikely that local brides would have diamond tiaras at their disposal, and so goes on to describe and provide sketches of some alternative head-dresses that were being used by “Riche of Hay-Hillâ€, a hair expert in London. The first of these suggestions is a floral head-dress that “might be made in the shape of a tiny coronet or crown poised on her head like that of a medieval queenâ€. Other suggestions include various arrangements of pearls and glass beads strung onto wire and worn as coronets or bandeaus.
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The Western Mail
1 March 1951, pp. 36-37.
The Western Mail
Newspaper Article
English
Queen wears Coronation Gown
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During her first royal visit in 1954, Queen Elizabeth II opened the sitting of Australia’s federal parliament at Parliament House on 15 February 1954. As this photograph from the Western Mail shows, she wore her coronation gown and the sash of the Order of the Garter.
‘The Most Noble Order of the Garter’ is the highest order of chivalry in the British heraldic system. It was established by Edward III in 1348, and membership was limited to the sovereign, the Prince of Wales and twenty-four knights. Over time, the membership has been widened to make allowances for members of the British royal family and foreign monarchs.
The star of the Order, containing the heraldic shield of the St George Cross encircled by the garter inside an eight-pointed star, is clearly visible on the Queen’s sash in this image.
For more on the history of the Order of the Garter, see Stephanie Trigg, ‘The Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter’ in Gordon McMullan & David Matthews (eds), Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.91-105.
Anon.
The National Library of Australia
The Western Mail
25 February 1954, p.57
The Western Mail, Copyright Expired
Newspaper Article
English