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Há 1 dia · On 2 February 1687 Corelli or Alessandro Scarlatti directed a tremendous orchestra performing a Pasquini cantata in praise for James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Mary I to welcome Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine as the new ambassador to the Vatican, accompanied by the painter John Michael Wright, who knew Rome and spoke Italian.
Há 3 dias · Roger Palmer, the refectorar, who had piously complained of the want of lectures in Holy Scripture at the last visitation, was a very different character: not the victim of temptation, but one who deliberately broke his vows.
Há 4 dias · A memorial near the Victorian town of Castlemaine was defaced with fake blood on Monday morning, with vandals leaving a sign denouncing the commemoration of "mass murderers”.
Há 4 dias · Thereafter, an interesting picture emerges of Roger III from Morris's narrative, thanks in particular both to the author's painstaking reconstruction of events from 1228 (the year of the attainment of Roger III's majority) onwards, and to the very 'memorable images' (p. 184) of the earl presented to us by poets and by the chroniclers of a warlike and quick-tempered man, a 'vir bellicosus', who ...
Há 3 dias · See for example John Adamson, The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I (London, 2007); Paul Hammer, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597 (Cambridge, 1999); Richard McCoy, ‘Old English nonour in an evil time: aristocratic principle in the 1620s’ in The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political ...
Há 4 dias · Roger, Earl of Warwick (1119-53), granted a small manor beyond the bridge on the south side of the town to the Knights Templars. It became one of a group of manors contributory to the preceptory of Balsall until the confiscation of the Templars' lands in 1308.
Há 3 dias · For festival goers, night time will start at 5pm with three big nights of film and festivities from June 14-16. CDOC director Claire Jager said the action kicked off on Friday June 14 with their free pre-festival double bill screening, which would be a celebration of regional culture. “You’ll be greeted by Castlemaine’s own Brazazul and ...
