Richard the Third

[eighthobstruction]

While ferney's in the mood, is it too early to start writing the Forum's panto?

Brilliant idea, must remember to initiate nearer the date....I'm already casting you as Snow White Am51....already got ideas as to who would be 3 or 4 of your 7 Dwarves too....well grumpy is easily cast....

[eighthobstruction]

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[BBMmk2]

Doesn't sound very Plantagenet to me!

I am part German! :) Amongst other things!

[amateur51]

Brilliant idea, must remember to initiate nearer the date....I'm already casting you as Snow White Am51....already got ideas as to who would be 3 or 4 of your 7 Dwarves too....well grumpy is easily cast....

Blimey eighth, type-cast again

[BBMmk2]

Blimey! Panto?

[french frank]

Not sure why this is tucked away on the BBC Business pages, but here are details of new research on medieval reburial rites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24643787

[jean]

Very interesting!

But has she researched appropriate music? That's what we all want to know!

[french frank]

Very interesting!

But has she researched appropriate music? That's what we all want to know!

Well, her field appears to be music and liturgy and it says: 'has found the only known surviving description of the prayers and music used for reburying medieval aristocrats'.

[I've whinged to someone or other about it being on the business page. I wonder if I'll get a reply.]

[Flosshilde]

Not sure why this is tucked away on the BBC Business pages, but here are details of new research on medieval reburial rites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24643787

Fascinating. As for why it's reported on the business pages, can anyone doubt that wherever the body is finally buried can expect a substantial boost in tourist revenues? That's what relics were all about.

The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits.
Better than your average jubilee street party!

[Gordon]

On the Xmas Panto theme, what about those 12 days of Christmas and all thsoe unsolicited gifts?

Competition is to write 12 ironic, put-down thank-you letters for those 12 gifts, bearing in mind they were not wanted!!!

[jean]

The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses...

Were they Requiem masses?

[Flosshilde]

The only reference to a requiem in the article is here, in a quote from Dr Buckle -

"We know Richard III had a very meagre night-time burial, probably just a basic requiem. He was covered in wounds, probably not embalmed."

[BBMmk2]

I don't think it's been decided yet, where they will bury the poor chap?

[Flosshilde]

Surely it has been decided - Leicester Cathedral, close to where he was originally buried. A few fantasists claiming to be his descendants, or related to him, (they're not fantasists because of that - I'm sure they are related, but then so are probably a great many other people) want to challenge it in court, but I doubt if that will come to anything.

[jean]

The only reference to a requiem in the article is here, in a quote from Dr Buckle -

"We know Richard III had a very meagre night-time burial, probably just a basic requiem. He was covered in wounds, probably not embalmed."

Ah, but that's the original burial - this will be a re-burial.