Evidence: | Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30
R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” which by some strange metamorphosis had changed into “Renaissance Social Life” was then taken. Mrs T. C. Elliott read a paper on “Domestic Life in the Fifteenth Century as seen in the Paston Letters”. Alfred Rawlings read a paper on “Medieval Artists and their
Methods”, illustrated by Medici reproductions of Giotto’s fresco St. “Francis: the birds”, Fra Angelico’s fresco “The Annunciation”, and Mantegna’s painting “Madonna and Child with Cherubim”[.] This was followed up by some readings anent the development of painting and the Renaissance.
R. H. Robson read a paper on “Vittorino da Feltre”, a Renaissance Schoolmaster & a “Romance of Federigo, Duke of Urbino”, illustrated by a Medici card reproduction of Piero della Francesca’s portrait of Duke Federigo. Mr Burrow read extracts from Children of the Olden Time [sic] by Eliz[abe]th Godfrey particularly
on the education of Royal Children. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 27 Feb 1930 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading county: Berkshire |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club] |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | 1860 |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Quaker or associated with the Friends |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
members of XII Book Club |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Howard Smith |
Title: | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 Dec 1929 |
Genre: | Minutes |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Notebook |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | n/a |
Record ID: | 29362 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | n/a | |
Title: | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 24 Jan 1930. | |
Location: | private collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | pp. 198–199 |
Citation: | [Unidentified member of the XII Book Club], Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 24 Jan 1930. private collection, p. pp. 198–199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29362, accessed: 24 September 2023 |
Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php). |
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