Many of the links on the latest larsdatter.com linkspage — on cassoni, the beautiful carved and/or painted Italian wedding-chests of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance — will be familiar to those who’ve visited the chests page in the past, but I’ve grouped them together and moved them to their own page now.

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog with information about new linkspages on the site, and I know there’ve been a few since the last update message. The two most recent additions (if I remember correctly) are pirates, and grindstones for sharpening knives.

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The Museum of London today unveils one of the largest collections of medieval and early modern buttons in the UK. Over two and a half thousand beautiful buttons of all shapes and sizes ranging in date from the late 14th to the late 19th century have been generously given to the museum by Tony Pilson. […]

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The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.
The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.
The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to […]

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A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today is at the Art Institute of Chicago through September 20.

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Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through October.

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Tullio Lombardo: An Antiquity of Imagination is at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, through October 31.

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