James Norton, Presenter, With Gillian Anderson, Winner Of The Bazaar Television Icon Award 2016

Migration Period Jewelry, 5th-6th Century AD

Ring made of gold, garnet, agate and glass. Earrings made of gold, garnet, lapis lazuli, red carnelian, pearl and chalcedony.

Vane & Eleanor Memory Week  Day 1: Why do you ship them? I was warned about you, warned you would betray me. I’d hoped you and I shared a love to make such a thing unthinkable. I’d hoped those warnings were wrong.

When Mankind Was Young. F. Britten Austin. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 1927. First edition. Original dust jacket. 

Collection of linked stories set in prehistoric times. “Druid rite when a human sacrifice was made, or at the festival where the fairest pair of lovers was offered to the savage god in the Spring to insure bountiful crops.”

So I’ll remain within your reign, until my thoughts can travel somewhere new… and I wonder if you wonder about me too. 

Cold nights. Warm memories. Gone you.

commas-sins-and-the-fall  (via wnq-writers)

Hangover Square. Patrick Hamilton. New York: Random House, 1942. First American edition. Original dust jacket.

“This girl wore her attractiveness not as a girl should, simply, consciously, as a happy crown of pleasure, but rather as a murderous utensil with which she might wound indiscriminately right and left, and which she would only employ to please when it suited her purpose. They were like bad-tempered street-walkers, without walking the street.”

Sancho I, king of Leon in the north of Spain, was overthrown by rebel nobels in 958 CE. In what is likely a never-before-and-never again accusation in history, the nobles accused Sancho of being unable to rule because he was too fat. His grandmother, Queen Toda Aznar of Navarra, sought help from the Muslim caliphate Cordoba in southern Spain. Again, extremely oddly, Queen Toda asked for two things: military aid to regain the throne, and medicinal aid to “cure” her grandson’s morbid obesity. Jewish physician Hisdai ibn Shaprut put ex-king Sancho on a strict diet. Once he was slim enough to ride a horse properly, Sancho reclaimed his throne with Muslim troops’ aid. (The portrait above is probably based on his post-diet look.) In short: a king was deposed because he was too fat, and got his throne back because he lost enough weight! Truth is stranger than fiction.

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