I was looking for some fairytales for my daughter. One of my forever favourite fairytales is "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen; it is my special winter holidays story. We used to watch it as children, year after year and never get tired of it. I was searching for an English translation of…
I was looking for some fairytales for my daughter. One of my forever favourite fairytales is "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen; it is my special winter holidays story. We used to watch it as children, year after year and never get tired of it. I was searching for an English translation of…
For the past few years, medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel has been poring over some of the world’s oldest books and manuscripts at Leiden University, The Netherlands, as part of his ongoing research on pen trials. Pen trials are small sketches, doodles, and practice strokes a medieval scribe would make while testing the ink flow of a pen or quill. They usually involve funny faces, letter strokes, random lines, or geometric shapes and generally appear in the back of the book where a few blank pages could be found. More
According to medieval legend, the land that is modern day Macedonia was home to a ferocious beast. The bonnacon, when attacked, could spray extremely caustic excrement at a range of 291 feet. Medieval naturalists often relied on this description by Roman author Pliny the Elder:In Pæonia, it is said, there is a wild animal known as the bonasus; it has the mane of the horse, but is, in other respects, like the bull, with horns, however, so much bent inwards upon each other, as to be of no use fo...
When the going gets tough, the art gets going. That's the beautiful thing about human creativity – it can sprout in any soil. Especially for the late British-French illustrator Edmund Dulac, whose flair for Art Nouveau fantasy not only gave us brilliant literary illustrations, but flights of fancy a
For the past few years, medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel has been poring over some of the world’s oldest books and manuscripts at Leiden University, The Netherlands, as part of his ongoing research on pen trials. Pen trials are small sketches, doodles, and practice strokes a medieval scribe would make while testing the ink flow of a pen or quill. They usually involve funny faces, letter strokes, random lines, or geometric shapes and generally appear in the back of the book where a few blank pages could be found. More
For the past few years, medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel has been poring over some of the world’s oldest books and manuscripts at Leiden University, The Netherlands, as part of his ongoing research on pen trials. Pen trials are small sketches, doodles, and practice strokes a medieval scribe would make while testing the ink flow of a pen or quill. They usually involve funny faces, letter strokes, random lines, or geometric shapes and generally appear in the back of the book where a few blank pages could be found. More
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King Stork (Books of Wonder) Howard Pyle illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman 1973 Trina Schart Hyman’s illustrated version of one of Howard Pyle’s tales from The Wonder Clock. She is another prolific artist whose books I’m always trying to get my hands on. I think her very best pictures are for fairy tales. Madeleine found this at her elementary school library (which I thought was funny since the illustrations are a tad risqué and the story would most certainly offend people who are not afficionados of fairy tales.) We however love it! Magical King Stork helps a young drummer win the hand of a beautiful princess (who also happens to be a witch). Of course, marrying her isn’t enough to drive her wickedness out so he’s advised to take a switch and “hold tight to her and lay on the switch” as she transforms into various vicious animals. In the end she was “as good a wife as ever churned butter”. Last of all, there stood the princess herself. "Oh, dear husband!" she cried. "Let me go, and I will promise to be good all the days of my life." "Very well," says the drummer, "and that is the tune I like to hear."
La nochebuena es una de las tradiciones navideñas propias de la religión cristiana, celebrada el 24 de Diciembre, en la cuál se reúnen para festejar el nacimiento de Jesus. Aunque las tradiciones dentro del mismo ritual cambian, lo que prevalece es la unión y la cena entre la familia y amigos. ¡Realmente una noche de paz! En esta noche se reúnen para cenar y repartir obsequios independientemente a la religión que se profese. Esta celebración se ha vuelto una costumbre en varias partes del mundo como pretexto para reunirse y convivir con nuestra familia y nuestros seres queridos. Con la creación de Santa Claus, los adornos navideños, el árbol y las postales esta fecha toma en la modernidad un nuevo significado cultural. ¿Porqué se llama noche buena? Se le llama nochebuena en unión de las palabras “noche y buena” para hacer referencia a la benigna noche en la que María dio a luz al divino niño Jesús. ¿De dónde viene la tradición? La costumbre nació en de la Edad Media cuando las iglesias hacían tan grandes sus celebraciones de navidad que la fiesta y el banquete empezaban desde un día antes. Sobre la Flor de Nochebuena Es una flor de origen endémico mexicano, cuetlaxochitl y significa “flor que se marchita", el nombre de nochebuena se lo asignaron en la conquista los monjes franciscanos en el siglo XVII. Ellos las usaban para adornar los templos durante la Navidad ya que presenta dos curiosidades características de las especie: Como muy pocas flores, florece en Noviembre y Diciembre La planta floreada tiene los tres colores típicos de la navidad: Verde, rojo y oro. Su belleza singular la hizo a llegar a todo el mundo. Se dice que en el siglo XIX ya la usaban en el vaticano. Y después Joel R. Poinsett, embajador de Estados Unidos en México, la popularizó en aquel país y algunos países de Europa de ahí que muchos la conozcan también como poinsetia. ¿Cómo celebramos los panameños la noche buena? En Latinoamérica en general, la costumbre es hacer un nacimiento con figuras que simbolizan la escena del nacimiento de Jesús, y a este en forma de bebé lo colocan hasta la última hora del 24 de diciembre. También lo que hacemos en Panamá, es cenar pavo, jamón, ensalada de papas, rosca de huevo y frutas y tamales a media noche. Previamente preparamos el ambiente navideño para darle calor al hogar. Ponemos nuestro árbol, muñecos de nieve inflables y las luces que tanto les gustan a nuestros niños. Al toque de la campana de medianoche los jóvenes se preparan para salir de fiesta y los niños esperan con ansias sus regalos bajo el árbol. En muchas partes se organizan desfiles navideños y los restaurantes ofrecen cenas especiales. Además, existen muchas asociaciones que recaudan ropa y juguetes durante el mes para regalar a los menos afortunados. Es una noche de unión familiar pero también en las calles siempre hay algo que hacer, podemos encontrar por ejemplo las típicas barriadas donde se hacen competencias de adornos navideños. Por sí te lo perdiste te dejamos el enlace al blog: Cena Navideña 2017- ¿Cómo decorar tu Mesa Navideña este 2017? La Noche Buena y sus flores son sin duda de nuestras tradiciones favoritas y conocerlas más a fondo nos hacen solo amarlas más. ¿Cuál es tu tradición especial de Noche Buena?
For the past few years, medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel has been poring over some of the world’s oldest books and manuscripts at Leiden University, The Netherlands, as part of his ongoing research on pen trials. Pen trials are small sketches, doodles, and practice strokes a medieval scribe would make while testing the ink flow of a pen or quill. They usually involve funny faces, letter strokes, random lines, or geometric shapes and generally appear in the back of the book where a few blank pages could be found. More
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July 8 … Samuel Pepys, bless him, alerted me out of my topic-neglect with his diary entry for this day in 1663. His wife was away in the country, but he managed not to starve. “And then at noon home to dinner alone, upon a good dish of eeles given me by Michell the Bewpers-man. … I stepped to Sir W. Batten and there stayed and talked with him, my Lady being in the country, and sent for some lobsters; and Mrs. Turner came in and did bring us an Umble-pie hot out of her oven, extraordinarily good, and afterward some spirits of her making (in which she has great judgement), very good, and so home, merry with this nights refreshment.” I can hardly believe that I have not given you a story about ‘umble pie’ in almost three years of blogging – and me about to give birth to a pie book sometime almost soon. I hope. A pie book has a gestation period of about fifty images, did you know that? The writing was the easy bit. No need to understand pixels, dpi’s, KB’s, jpegs, or how to get rid of red-eye. A piece of chalk and a blank wall will suffice, for words. But I digress. ‘Umbles’ or nombles, or humbles are ‘the inwards of a deer or other beast’ – in other words, the offal from your venison. A most prized part of the beast in Samuel’s day, not one to be shuddered at briefly before being slipped to the hounds or made invisible in sausages. A part traditionally the perquisite of the gamekeeper, but occasionally snaffled by the ‘better class of folk’ for their own enjoyment in ‘umble pie’. An interesting dish, Umble Pie. Quite paradoxical, really. Inferior enough to give us the ‘humble pie’ we eat symbolically when we are mildly humiliated, yet capable of being ‘extraordinarily good’ - good enough to give all fresh and hot from the oven, to your visitors. Desirable enough that if you didn’t have any umbles handy, a recipe book of 1617 could tell you how to fake the recipe, so that no-one could tell. To make an Umble-pye, or for want of Umbles, to doe it with a Lambes head and Purtenance. Boyle your meate reasonable tender, take the flesh from the bone, and mince it small with Beefe-suet and Sparrow, with the Liver, Lights, and Heart, a few sweet Hearbes and Currans. Season it with Pepper, Salt, and Nutmeg: bake it in a Coffin raised like an Umble pye, and it will eate so like unto Umbles, as that you shall hardly by taste discerne it from right Umbles. [A New Booke of Cookerie; John Murrell, 1617] Lamb’s Purtenance? The ‘innards or entrails of an animal, esp. as used for food’. Sheep Umbles, in other words. Tomorrow’ Story … Entertaining the Queen. Quotation for the Day … I think that I should like to sing of pies Walter Elliot
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British television has been swept off its feet this summer by a certain reality contest in which a group of singletons compete to find romance on an exotic island. Love it or loathe it, society has always been infatuated with dating and finding true love, especially during the Middle Ages....
