Alice Thornton uses the expression "too nimble of his fingers" to describe a thieving servant, and I 😍 it.
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
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. 🗃️
This is mentioned in three of her books but in most detail in Book 2: 'my gown skirt wrapped about my feet and so twisted that I could not loosen it... I fell upon my hands and knees...but the very weight of my body...did so shake me that the child was turned wrong in my womb'. 📚 📜
Image: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Anne Hale Mrs Hoskins (1629). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. To read the passage in context: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/edition/?p0....
My Richard Norwood article is finally out with the Huntington Library Quarterly: here is the link! #earlymoderndoi.org/10.1353/hlq....
And now the author @beatricealex.bsky.social#DigitalHumanities
In our latest blog post Dr Beatrice Alex shows how the marked up text underlying our digital edition can be used as a dataset. Have a look at the initial results of her computational text analysis. #DH #DigitalHumanities thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Blog article - 9 September 2024
