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Cordelia Beattie
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Professor of Women’s and Gender History, with particular focus on women in late medieval England. PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25.
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The male effigy is likely the father of Robert Thornton of medieval manuscript fame. Lincoln Cathedral MS 91 seems to have still been at E.Newton in the late 17thC when Alice Thornton lived there but was probably in Lincoln by 1681. A rabbit hole I have been resisting! 📜 📚 #EarlyModern#MedievalSky

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18 Sept. 1668 Alice Thornton’s husband, William, was buried #OTD. ‘My dearest heart was interred in his own alley at Stonegrave Church near his mother and two babes, Christopher & Joyce’ (Bk 1). The aisle was levelled in 1863 and most Thornton tombstones were buried. These 15thC effigies remain. 🗃️

Tomb effigies of a man and a woman
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Cordelia Beattie
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Professor of Women’s and Gender History, with particular focus on women in late medieval England. PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25.
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