WG066

Whispering Gallery Issue 066 / WG066

Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 066

Date and Pages

• February 2000, 36 A4 Pages (including Covers)

Editor

• Valerie Bierman

Front Cover

• Standard cover green on white, with borders

Back Cover

• Solid green

Articles

• Editorial - Valerie Bierman
• Obituary - Nigel Tranter 1901-2000 - unattributed
• Final Episode of Checkmate - Carolynn Styles
• Men's Dress of the mid 16th Century, Surcoats and Cloaks - Nan Masters
• Dorothy Dunnett and ‘The Buke of the Howlat’ final part - Diana Crane
• Stone Heads 3: Roman Faces - Diana Crane
• Bookshelf recommendations - Olive Millward, Mike Brain, Ann Granville, Anne Key and Karen McKenna
• Bread, Cheese and Radishes - part 4 of 6 - Pauline Brace
• Death, disease and burial in the 15th century, talk by Jean Townsend at Lincoln Day - notes by Jen Black

Illustrations and Photos

• Photograph of the fortress of Modoni - Suzanne McNeill
• From The Scotsman - photograph of a banquet taking place in the Great Hall at Stirling Castle. Credit: Historic Scotland
• Photograph of reader Waltraud Hess and her three Irish wolfhounds - uncredited; WG067 apologizes, identified them as Scottish Deerhounds
• Photograph of 15th century lavatory sent in by Joss O'Kelly - uncredited
• Photographs of 16th century life at Stirling Castle, reconstructed medieval kitchen - credited Paula Garrow

Ephemera

• G2000 News Update, includes seminars, tours available - unattributed
• Questions, Speculations and Such Like - Margot Lovejoy
• An Insalubrious Quiz with answers - Beryl Attridge
• From The Scotsman on surprising finds in silt under 12th century Paisley Abbey, including piss-pot - Jim McBeth

Letters

Canada

• Dorothy Hancock - responses to WG065

Scotland

• Suzanne McNeill - visited Venetian fortress Methoni (Modon), City's chief naval base in eastern waters, called it the eye of Venice
• Karen McKenna - speculations about possible twins in Gemini

Wales

• Mike Brain - does title Gemini mean Nicholas as twin theory true? Reponses to WG06, suggests CR p. 329 description of Tabriz as entry for DD poetry list

England

• Ros Williams - given title Gemini expects twins to be important somehow; does not want to pursue arguments over extent of evil in Nicholas and/or Gelis
• Linda Butcher - for link between LC and HN, considers Adorne's daughter by Phemie as possible Dame de Doubtance
• Jean Hanson - thinking of Nicholas, struck by the beauty (like oak?) of male in Michaelangelo's fresco of God creating Adam
• Angela Harris - new to WG, responses to some earlier WG letters, impressed by level of scholarship, likes term Dunnett Squeaks, recommends CDs of Renaissance music
• Angela Wickham - responses to WG065, bravo Carolynn Styles for The Books in a Minute
• Simon Hedges - call for participants in 'The Nikado or Trial of de Fleury' at Gathering 2000, based loosely on works of Gilbert and Sullivan
• Ann Granville - new to internet, would like help to access James Thin site, loves Books in a Minute

Germany

• Heike Meyer - in KH, DD lets historical persons found in sources shine through fictional characters, examples include Sulien, John Scotus, Anno provost of Goslar, Empress Agnes

USA

• Carlynn Bromann - recommends Buchan's biography 'The Marquis of Montrose' (1913) for period after LC; recommends Renaissance Fayres and adult-sized Simplicity patterns for Renaissance costumes

Forthcoming Events

• Essex Day April 2000
• The Nikado or Trial of De Fleury - invitation to participate at the Edinburgh Gathering
• DD in Dunkeld April 2000
• Gathering 2000 July Edinburgh
• Gathering 2000 September Philadelphia
• Oxford Day October 2000
• DD Down Under, Dunnett's Schedule in Adelaide and Sydney March 2000

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