I'm busy researching Tudor entertainment, revels and pageantry at the moment and so wanted to share with you some information on the 1511 celebrations for the birth of Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall. I hope you enjoy these vivid descriptions which might just transport you back to early 1511.
Recommended Reading
- Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England by Alison Sim
- Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy by Sydney Anglo
- Hall's Rhetoric of Performance by Janette Dillon, article available to hire or purchase at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0013-8312.2004.00035.x/abstract
- Tournaments at the court of King Henry VIII by Karen Watts at http://www.knightorder.org.uk/history/Tournaments%20at%20the%20court%20of%20King%20Henry%20VIII.pdf
- The Westminster Tournament Challenge (Harley 83 H 1) and Thomas Wriothesley's Workshop at http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article9.html
- Court Revels, 1485-1559, by W.R. Streitberger
- The Court Masque: A Study in the Relationship between Poetry and the Revels by Enid Welsford
- Henry VIII by Edward Hall, p22 onwards at https://archive.org/stream/cu31924091758288#page/n57/mode/2up, or Hall's Chronicle, p516 onwards, at http://www.archive.org/stream/hallschronicleco00halluoft#page/516/mode/2up
- The Evolution of the Early Tudor Disguising, Pageant and Mask by Sydney Anglo, available at http://www.jstor.org/
- Accounts of Revels, &c., drawn up by RICHARD GIBSON at the King's order, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518 - at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol2/pp1490-1518
- Revels: Miscellaneous 1519, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523, at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol3/pp1548-1559
- Henry VIII: May 1527, 1-5, Pages 1386-1392, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, 3093 and 3097 at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp1386-1392
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