St. Benedict. His Rule. The habit of the monks. Propagation of the order. Cluny. Fulda. Bursfeld. English Benedictines. Benedictines in the United States.
The history of the Benedictines. The Order. The Habit. The Monastery.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Nuns of the order of St. Benedict. Benedict nuns of the perpetual adoration.
History of Religious Orders. The Abbaye royale Notre-Dame de Fontevraud. Early nuns of the order. Our Lady of Calvary. Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Queen Mary’s harp or Lude Harp of the 15th century.
THIS venerable instrument, the least impaired Gaelic Harp existing, is known as Queen Mary’s Harp or Lude Harp and date back to the 15th century.
Italy. Rural costumes. The farmers of the Terra di Lavoro. The Pifferari.
The figures represent inhabitants of Monte Cassino, the old Casinum, in the Terra di Lavoro, as they walk through the streets of Rome as models and through the capitals of the mainland as musicians.
The Scottish clans. The Tartan of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland.
The first Robert Bruce came to England as a knight of Normandy, in the wake of William the Conqueror. After William’s victory over Harold, he sent him to the northern parts of England to subdue them.
Transitional Female costume. Elizabethan fashion 1550 to 1620.
Transitional Female costume between the Elizabethan and Charles I modes. Elizabethan fashion 1550 to 1620.
Greek Embroidery. Portion of a rich Fermeli, or upper jacket.
Portion of a rich fermeli, or upper jacket, which was included in a complete suit of elaborate Palikar costume.
The Lamont Harp or Clàrsach Lumanach.
Highland Harp known as the the Lamont Harp or Clàrsach Lumanach.
An Elizabethan man’s outfit. Woman wearing a Spanish farthingale.
The man and woman shown here are wearing typical ensembles of the Elizabethan era. The man is somewhat of a dandy. The woman is wearing a Spanish farthingale.
Kittim, Cyprus, View of Larnaca, 1836.
The island of Cyprus was known to the Hebrews under the name of Chetim (or Kittim), from Kittim the son of Javan, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah.