[MR] Fwd: Re: British antiquities at Boston College

[David Chessler]

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Received: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:52:54 AM EDT
From: "D.Snyder" <dnmsnyder at gmail.com>
To: carolingia at indra.com
Subject: Re: [Carolingia] [C-A] British antiquities at Boston College

Florian and I and an out-of-town friend spent a couple of hours there 
Saturday afternoon. Informative information boards and tags, and 
well-lit spaces. The focus is on the process, rather than the artifacts, 
but both are fascinating (16thC county maps, Caxton printed volumes, 
county heraldic records, Roman and Saxon grave goods... and the Winton 
Domesday Book open to an account of somebody trying to put one over on 
the tax collectors...).

Yeliz, thank you for the heads-up.

Edith


On 9/1/2011 4:27 PM, Elizabeth Lear wrote:
>
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2011/09/01/boston_college_hosts_rare_display_of_magna_carta_and_other_artifacts_from_british_history/
>
> Saw this in the Globe today:
>
> "Making History: Antiquaries in Britain" represents the North American debut
of a collection of the most significant historical artifacts owned by the
Society of Antiquaries of London, a 300-year-old organization dedicated to the
preservation of historically important items.
>
> Opening Sunday and continuing through Dec. 11 at Boston College's McMullen
Museum of Art, the exhibition traces milestones in the discovery, recording,
preservation, interpretation, and communication of s history. Among the 98
items on display are a copy of the Magna Carta from 1225 (about 10 years after
it was signed); the Winton Domesday Book, a 12th-century English
administrative document that records the landholdings in the city of
Winchester; a collection of panel paintings including royal portraits from
Henry VI to Mary I; works from the Arts and Crafts movement by William Morris;
rare books; and paintings and drawings by Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones,
and Augustus Welby Pugin.
>
> A version of the exhibition appeared in 2007 at the Royal Academy of Arts in
London.
>
> On Sunday, the museum will host an opening reception and evening viewing
from 7 to 9 p.m. Several additional special events are planned over the course
of the fall, including a series of concert and lectures called "Making
History/Making Music", a conference on Anglo-Saxon history, and a talk by
Margaret Marshall, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, on
the Magna Carta and the Massachusetts Constitution.
>
> For a schedule of events and more information on the museum, go
towww.bc.edu/artmuseum  <http:www.bc.edu/artmuseum>. Admission is free. The
McMullen Museum of Art is in Devlin Hall on the Boston College campus, 140
Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill.
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