By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:22:23 +0000

After a lifetime of seeing exquisite museum examples of fine silver, glistening delicate glass, and glorious majolica — somehow THIS array of time-worn artifacts has reminded me of true beauty. These enduring, humble fragments radiate with stories and humane legacies. These items have persisted, almost as if they have been languishing until the ideal moment — Now, each person in our current imperfect age can look at them and feel connected to an earlier time. Some would say “things are only THINGS” — and yet this grouping of objects simmers with life.

Just — wow!

By: Venetia

Venetia — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:28:08 +0000

What an interesting discovery. I particularly like William Rowley’s poem at the end that speaks of his “vowes [that] fly up to heaven” reminding me that God honours those who honour him (1 Samuel 2:30), something that is central to the people whose lives are described in Cynthia Harnett’s books like The Woolpack and Ring Out Bow Bells!. She cleverly captures the day-to-day lives of people living in 15th-century London and Oxfordshire in her stories that are crammed full of historical detail – like eating from wooden platters! I do wish I knew where she did her research. She brings to life the sounds of church bells, the hurrying for Mass, the hustle and bustle, smells and pick-pockets, merchants and traders, fairs and religious processions that were all part of life in the Middle Ages. What else did people drop down the well?

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By: Lynne Perrella

By: Venetia