"A monk miniature in Foundry Elizabethan command ?" Topic
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| Patrice | 25 Jul 2012 7:16 a.m. PST |
Foundry has a miniature of a monk (?) holding a sword in its Elizabethan British command. Seems strange to me. Cannot be a Catholic monk if English 16th-17h century. Is he a protestant minister? A Foundry mistake? This miniature has been around since a long time (I have one I bought decades ago). How should his clothes be painted? |
| Dans Short Attention Span | 25 Jul 2012 7:20 a.m. PST |
Intended to represent John Ballard perhaps? |
 x42brown  | 25 Jul 2012 7:47 a.m. PST |
A cassock was the clothing of the English clergy. x42 |
 Narratio | 26 Jul 2012 2:38 a.m. PST |
Nothing wrong with having a miitant order monk. (Hmmm, bet I can use that in a poem) There's some precedent in the old Friar Tuck character after all. |
| Major Bumsore | 26 Jul 2012 3:17 a.m. PST |
There's some precedent in the old Friar Tuck character after all. How about Eustace the Mad Monk? |
| Griefbringer | 26 Jul 2012 7:40 a.m. PST |
While militant monks might have precedence in the middle ages (including the one that fired artillery pieces in one of the battle of the Wars of the Roses), 16th century was less kindly to those brothers in England: English reformation and the related dissolution of monasteries in the 1530's made friars pretty scarce in England. |
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