Desafío paleográfico. Testamento del año 1581 en Puebla de los Ángeles. Por más que miro no logro descifrar la naturaleza del testador, Hernán Velázquez Gasca. ¿Me echáis un cable? ¡Gracias!

Partida de bautismo de Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid) del año 1500 en que se bautiza un 'mozo moro': "Lunes xiii días de abrill este día se tornó cristiano vn moço moro vecino de Guadalix y llamose Francisco sus padrinos Juan González de Flores y Francisco López y sus mujeres".

Henry joins today as a (very cute) office mate.

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on a mistranslation by Royall Tyler, the editor of that particular volume of the Calendars. Indeed, Philip said ‘que lo he sentido quanto es razón’ and ‘razón’ doesn’t mean reasonable but conveys a sense of righteousness. A more accurate translation would be ‘I felt it much, as is to be expected’.

Philip is said to have said that he ‘felt a reasonable regret for her death’, a quotation repeated over and over in books and articles dealing with their relationship. I was the first to go back to the original letter in Simancas in Spain and immediately saw that the quotation was based

The traditional narrative has Philip being unimpressed by Mary, even resentful, and we’re told that he ‘abandoned’ her as soon as he could. There is no clearer evidence for this, we are told, than Philip’s callous reaction to the news of her death. In a letter to his sister Juana, regent of Spain,

Yes, I am a Spaniard, and I did come to England, just like Pedro de Ribadeneyra, the Jesuit I’m talking about here, even though it looks like I’m talking about myself (true to fashion). Never would have I imagined that I’d end up being on the @bbc , interviewed by none other than

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I will be chatting with the wonderful @lucyworsley.bsky.social about Queen Mary I. Was she a pioneer 👸📚 or a tyrant 🪓🔥? Come and find out!
#LucyWorsleyInvestigates
episode on Mary will air Friday, 24 January 2025 at 21:00 on BBC Two
Also on BBC iPlayer (3 Jan) & PBS

Catherine of Aragon was born #OTD in 1485. An intelligent, erudite and principled woman who was coherent until her last breath. The one person who consistenly and indefatigably stood up against Henry VIII's bullying tactics. #history #tudors

Alas, it was not to last, and Queen Elizabeth I abolished the popular feast again after she broke with Rome in 1559, although the Boy Bishop has been reclaimed in more recent times in England in both Catholic (Westminster) and Anglican (Hereford, Salisbury) cathedrals.

London's cathedral which had not been seen for many years and that was the Boy Bishop of St. Nicholas, who they elected and carried with much pomp and there were banquets and much partying both among the clerics as well as lay people. May everyone praise God, for it truly seems that all this is His

but Mary I restored it in 1554, even before the reconciliation with Rome. The first celebration of the festivity since 1542 took place 6/12/1554, merely a week after the reunion with Rome on 30/11. Gonzalo Pérez, Philip's chief secretary witnessed it and wrote: "yesterday something was done in

abolished by Protestant regimes as unscriptural, superstitious and papist and, therefore, un-Christian. It remained, however, in Catholic countries, and it's still celebrated to this day, the feast in Burgos being one of the most well-known. In England, Henry VIII abolished the feast in 1542,

Today is the Day of St. Nicholas, very important in Christian tradition. In medieval Europe, this was the day when the feast of the Boy Bishop (obispillo de san Nicolás in Spanish) began. A boy was elected as bishop and granted authority usually until the Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December).

Primera #tortilladepatatas en la cocina nueva. El huevo líquido y sin cebolla. Como Dios manda. #sincebollista