Anthropology

Elizabeth of York



Effigies of Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey



Margaret Beaufort



Very superstitious bunch of people! Looks as if they imagined they'd better get the "womenfolk" all tangled up in religion so they would be less tempted to run amock and act up!

Definite resemblance to portable chapels on their domes!

If they hadn't been likely to be afraid of machines, they would have adored these mobile chapels:





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Again, thanks for activating our interest in learning more about the elaborate, and intriguing headdresses from Middle Ages, (and maybe earlier, too?) Europe. This would be a fascinating subject to dive into when a person has some fun time to go looking! (I just remembered some of the European madrigals were very eerie, mysterious, too.)