Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England? 310
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025And signal boosting the source for these images here on the web, Heather Teysko's (@booksmusictravel.bsky.social) Renaissance History podcast = www.englandcast.com/2019/08/fools/englandcast.comEpisode 128: Tudor Fools - Renaissance English History PodcastEpisode 128 of the Renaissance English History Podcast is on Tudor Fools. The people who made the court laugh, and spoke truth to power. Book Recommendations Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Aro... 110
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025And here's Will again on Henry VIII's psalter = 010
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025This is Will Somers from one of H8's portraits, and his garb is similar to what appears in several images of the era. 010
