Period Whatnots

moodboard: The Phantom of the Opera angel of music, guide and guardian 
grant to me your glory 
angel of music, hide no longer 
secret and strange angel

carpe noctem

Well then. Well then.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

George x Elizabeth: exchanging looks

So you love her? We get on

My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family who would carry me as their shame, as I have been required to carry my own mother. […] Since I wish to deny her no more than I wish to deny myself, you will pardon me for wanting a husband who feels “forgiveness” of my bloodline is both unnecessary and without grace.

— William Shakespeare

The dancing plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, (now modern day France). Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected collapsed or even died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion. The outbreak began in July 1518 when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was caused by “hot blood”. Authorities encouraged more dancing, opening two guildhalls, and constructing a wooden stage, believing that the dancers would recover only if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving. 

“You and i are Earth 1661”. Tin-glazed earthenware plate found in a London sewer, from the Wellcome Collection’s “Dirt” exhibition.

Why Women Kill #2: I’d like to kill ya, but I just washed my hair

Fashionable in the 1530s, the Balzo was a ringed-shape headdress that was meant to create a similar silhouette as a turban in the front, except that it was meant to show the wearer’s hair. 

Finally I finished. If you know some interesting historical persons, please write me about them:)