#medieval
#otd 576 died Germain of Paris, the 'Father of the Poor'. He was buried in the chapel of Saint Symphorian, which was rededicated in the 8th century to Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey. #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic: Wikipedia Commons (location of the first tomb)
#guettisknippse wird warm...
𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 - Man soll das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist. Aber dazu muss es erstmal heiß werden!
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One should strike while the iron is hot. But first it has to get hot!
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#darktable #photography #medieval
Castellologists need to watch Miami Vice. It's got Donjonson.
From my "Images of Italy" collection. Passageway in Cortona.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/italian-passageway-cortona-deborah-league.html
#mastodon #mastoart #buyintoart #italy #colorful #art #artist #AYearForArt #fediart #photography #fedigiftshop #digitalart #fediverse #artbooster #artwork #medieval
#OpenAccess Short report in Swedish
Anton Larsson & Paula Molander: "Skalmeredshällen"
A look at two decorated #Medieval gave slabs found in a modern farmhouse in Västergötland, on top of a loom, and how they got there.
https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:raa:diva-6660
The Eze village in France. Narrow alley and medieval stone buildings linked by small arched wall with a window and lamp in historic village on French Riviera.
https://artur-bogacki.pixels.com/featured/in-the-eze-village-in-france-artur-bogacki.html
#Eze #EzeVillage #medieval #village #town #France #FrenchRiviera #Europe #photography #travel #mastoart #ayearforart #buyintoart
#otd 1444 John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, died. He was buried next to his wife in the Minster of St. Cuthburga in Wimborne Minster. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons
Pic: Wikipedia Commons
My first book will be coming out with Cornell University Press next year. It's titled "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China." There's finally a webpage for it, so it feels "real" enough to announce.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773839/poet-monks/#bookTabs=1
#PoetMonks combines #CloseReading, #DigitalHumanities, and #Manuscript studies to re-examine the role of #Buddhism in #Medieval #Chinese #poetry and rethink #literaryhistory.
Cover art (and much more!) to come soon.
Fechtbücher Marble Coaster | Duels between Women and Men in 1400s | Stir up a little magic & serve your drinks on stylish medieval, stone coasters | 4" x 4" | Choose from marble, sandstone, travertine & limestone https://www.zazzle.com/fechtbucher_marble_coaster-256119769587270019 #zazzlemade #coasters #Medieval #giftideas #museums #globalmuseum
Incredible seeing the range of colours that were available via natural dies. A display at #FountainsAbbey using locally available plants and dyes. A great #medieval #fantasy reference
This new book sounds amazing, especially if like me you know next to nothing about the #Mongol world.
"The Mongols were not merely invaders, however, and an overemphasis on military history often conceals the rich cultural history of a nomadic society with its own religious traditions and policies of tolerance towards the diverse societies of the medieval #NearEast."
#Ottoman History Podcast | The Mongols and the #Medieval Near East
When it comes to self-defence, skunks and spitting cobras have nothing on the medieval “bonnacon”. It was said to defecate with such explosive force that it could scald targets more than a football pitch away with its fire-like dung. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons
#medieval #art #illustration #legend #myth
"Why Universities Should be More Like Monasteries." I endorse this.
via @JaneRLaForge
#otd 1421 died Mehmed I, Ottoman sultan. He was buried in Bursa, near the so-called Green Mosque built by him. The monument built by his son Murad II is called Green Tomb. #medievaldeath #medieval @medievodons
Pics.: Wikipedia Commons
I should also praise some of the books describing _real_ towns! I think my _very favorite_ book devoted to a medieval town is Platt's "Medieval Southampton." Platt is always a slam-dunk (I dig his work in general), and Southampton is his town (it's where he lived and taught).
A more recent great is Sarah Pearson and Helen Clarke's (et al) Sandwich: The Completest Medieval Town in England. SUPER substantial.
And lots of others, of course, but those two make me _swoony._
What if unicorns looked like this?
Like a strange 20th century chimerical cryptid.
Would they sill have graced the covers of Lisa Frank binders?? 🤔
🎨 : https://dice.camp/@weirdmedieval@bird.makeup/110395292633161470
#folklore #mythology #unicorn #medieval #history #illustration #cryptid #cryptids
The Bore Stane in Edinburgh, Scotland
This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.
The Bore Stane
Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia in Varallo, Italy
A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.
Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia
During the 🗡️#Medieval era, 🇷🇴#Romania was home to a number of important castles and fortresses, including the 🏰#Bran Castle and the 🏰#CorvinCastle.
Johannes, het evangelie schrijvend. Prachtig de dreiging van de duivel, de vestingen en het landelijke leven | Saint John Writing the Gospel. Wonderful the threat of the devil, fortresses and rural life.
#Depot of #Boijmans
#artmuseum @boijmans #art #exhibition #medieval #painting
#otd 1085 Pope Gregory VII died. These illustrations show (above) the flight from Rome, (below) exile and death. #medieval #medievaldeath
Ms.: Jena, Thüringer Universitäts-Landesbibliothek: Ms. Bos. q. 6, fol. 79r
Work begins to protect medieval tomb from the Deathwatch Beetle https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/medieval-tomb-deathwatch-beetle/ #medieval #churches
I’ve updated my online bibliography of scholarship on the #Premonstratensian Order during the Middle Ages. It now contains more than 5,000 works on the order from the late 15th century to the present day. Entries are tagged by category (community, theme, individual or region) for easier searching. Click on ‘Group by’ for sorting options.
Due to the size it does now take at least a minute to load, so please be aware of that! I'm investigating alternative means of hosting the bibliography online so that it's a bit more usable.
The Emperor called all his best
Philosophers to try and test
The soundness of my faith with prattle,
But I was victor in that battle,
Convincing many to convert.
He tried to hit me where it hurt
And break my spirit on the Wheel,
But every wound was bound to heal.
#riddlepoems #history #medieval #art #religion #christianity #catholicism #saints #folklore #legend #poetrycommunity
#otd 1212 died Dagmar of Bohemia, Queen of Denmark. She was buried in St. Bendts Church at Ringsted on Zealand, where this tombstone commemorates her today. #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Today's #phisher got my title wrong, I corrected them. They told me I was speaking to a Visa and MasterCard Department. I asked them why they needed to speak to a #Medieval #historian They hung up.
One day I'll have time to say "Good, I'm a narrative expert. I have questions." Because I do. I'd love them to explain their #scripts. I don't want to research this. I want to talk to a phisher about it... when the want to talk to me about something else.
"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science/medieval-books-hidden-manuscripts.html #Books #Medieval #Science #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1661059061494824960
Today #amwritinghistory about a certain hagiographer’s compilation process, and it’s kind of fun to see the places where he clearly went, “Ugh, ok, what do I do with this . . .”
#otd 1125 Emperor Henry V died in Utrecht. His entrails were buried there, his bones in Speyer (Pic.). #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic: Wikipedia Commons
Stealing the King’s Crown in 1440 https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/stealing-the-kings-crown-in-1440/ #medieval #history
This time it's cursed marginalia rather than a cursed watermark. This little guy (??) lives in the bottom margin of MS Add 27329.
'Black and White Edinburgh Castle' for today's #MonochromeMonday
I've only been once to Edinburgh for a day, but it was so lovely there - the city has a nice medieval flair with the castle sitting high on top of a hill. Maybe I'll be back one day for a longer trip.
prints and more:
https://kathrin-poersch.pixels.com/featured/black-and-white-edinburgh-castle-kathrin-poersch.html
#AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #MarvelousMay #edinburgh #EdinburghCastle #medieval #photography #FediGiftShop #prints #Scotland #castle #bw #monochrome #blackandwhite #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday
I got to talk about Old English on NPR’s Weekend Edition! Listen here. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1177391811/hana-videen-on-her-book-the-wordhord-daily-life-in-old-english #OldEnglish #npr #language #books #medieval #MiddleAges #words
#otd 1388 died Kuno II of Falkenstein, archbishop and elector of Trier. He was buried in the St. Kastor Church in Koblenz. #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
"They focus on the application of metrical study to literary criticism and manuscript studies, engaging with current debate and offering new perspectives on the crucial role of metre to Old English scholarship." https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58584 #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Medieval #bookstodon @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/ArcHumanities/status/1657847504828809217
Another excellent @AskHistorians answer, this one by MariusMules:
"Some modern historians say the Dark Ages weren't that dark. Petrarch begs to differ. Was he wrong about what he described (IE, societal, artistic, legal, and Political collapse)? Was he just being overly dramatic?"
#otd 1277 Pope John XXI died and was buried in the cathedral of Viterbo. His tomb was redesigned in the 19th century. #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic: Wikipedia Commons
1) The shipwreck of the 1495 medieval Danish warship Gribshunden turned out to have incredibly well-preserved plant remains, including expensive spices like saffron, peppercorns, ginger, and almond.
It's a “substantially complete royal medieval pantry” and is "[one of] the most fabulous discoveries of spices in any archaeological context, on land or sea"
View the paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281010
#Medieval #Gribshunden #Shipwreck #Archaeology #MaritimeArchaeology #Viking #Vikings #Histodons
At Haddon Hall today on duty at the Gatehouse Gallery with Peak District Artisans.
#roses #rosegarden #rosepainting #acrylicpainting #medieval #historichouse #windows #rose #garden #gardenpainting #mastoart #artist #artmastodon #artists #illustration
There's a whole valuable lesson in this about checking historical sources, but mostly I'm sharing it because those sources are medieval cats, many of them acting out, as a good cat should.
On cats – Going Medieval https://going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/on-cats/
Paleographic tooters, does anybody know what happened to the free paleographic fonts that used to be available at http://kps-fonts.ch/en_home.html ? Or who made them? I installed a lot of them but not all several years ago, the site is defunct, and I didn't save any other details.
Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
#literature #CelticStudies
@litstudies https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
From the Classic Art memes group in another place. Made I laugh. :-)
I usually follow back boosters and those that are in similar brain spaces.
I may have found an idea for a new hobby. DIY suit of armour.
I've always wanted a bespoke suit... 😂
Medieval window (Baeza, Spain, 2016)
#photography #fotografie #fotografia #photographie #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #medieval #spain #art #Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #architecture
Together with a scene of the Creation and Expulsion from Paradise, this picture formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece formerly in the church of San Domenico, Siena (Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence). Painted in 1445, the two paintings rank among the finest works by Giovanni di Paolo. Groups of saints and angels embrace in a rich, tapestry-like garden of Paradise.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-paradise-giovanni-di-paolo.html
#art #arthistory #medieval #MastoArt #Paradise #vintage #saints #1400s
Historians before the 19th century are as shameless about paraphrasing sources without credit as journalists or vlogers today. For the battle of Benevento in 1266, a Latin account and a French account use almost exactly the same words, probably borrowed from the lost Latin chronicle of Primat of St-Denis #philology #latin #medieval #Medievodons @medievodons
Coronation: Seven in 10 Scots do not care, according to new survey
@NatureMC
So that's how #beehives are made! All those in this shape? or are other materials used too?
Can't resist adding one of my favourite #medieval #manuscript depictions of #bees - would these hives be made of #liana?
https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=24383
#BritishLibrary @natureworks
Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: https://buff.ly/3aoGaJT
The Latin at the bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."
NEW ESSAY — “Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine”, in which
Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body's liquid excretions — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled-waters #urine #history #histodon #histsci #medicine #medieval
I just want y'all to appreciate this gorgeous profile artwork again from Jerry Bennett. He spent hours looking at my big dumb face for reference and transformed this tired potato into a romantic #medieval maiden. I still cannot get over the little rose finch perched on my shoulder. :blobaww:
He also told me he genuinely loves the song, which is also super encouraging!
#IndieArt #Art #HolyGrail #NewMusic #BandcampFriday #ArtPop #BaroquePop #RoseFinch #PortraitArt #Music #SingerSongwriter
Listen to the Grammar Girl podcast this weekend while you garden, cook, or walk the dog!
This week, we're talking about:
🎧 Strange killer bunnies that appear in medieval manuscripts.
🎧 Why it sounds weird to say "a dozen OF eggs."
Read: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/dozen-bunnies-tnRXLehL/transcript
Listen: https://pod.link/173429229/episode/e7308ec025441abd9b7bd22740bf4202
A few of the 28 spectacular "pattern poems" produced by the Frankish Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus in his 9th-century work De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross). More examples, and an explanation of how they work, here: https://buff.ly/31Dc5jY #religion #christianity #poem #patterns #design #art #medieval
Westminster Hall is the oldest surviving part of the medieval Palace of Westminster, now part of the UK parliament buildings. Built in 1097 under King William II, for a time it was the largest hall in Europe.
From 1393 on, the original, probably pillar supported roof, was replaced by a hammerbeam roof designed by the royal carpenter Hugh Herland.
I usually follow back, & really appreciate/often fb boosters.
#medieval #roof #architecture #history #Westminister #Parliament #HousesOfParliament
I'm doing some work on modern reception of medieval topics, and I'd like to find volunteers for a one-question survey (won't take much of your time!)
I'm looking for people who are actively creating or using any loosely medieval or medieval-inspired setting for any purpose. Also I need people who do *not* have any degree or better training in history.
If that's you and you'd be willing to give me ca 5 mins tops of your time, please shout! If not, please boost!
"Here lies the worst of kings and the most wretched of men". According to Walter Bower, Robert III of Scotland wished this inscription on his tomb. He died #otd 1406. This tomb in Paisley Abbey was donated by Queen Victoria in 1888. #medievaldeath #medieval
Pic.: Wiki. C.
Chess was wildly popular in the Middle Ages: chess vocabulary & imagery was used extensively for commentaries on war, politics, love, & the social order.
Watch THE MIRROR OF CHESS: A CULTURAL EXPLORATION ➡️https://ideasroadshow.com/chess/
#chess #history #histodons @histodons #archaeology #art #politics #war #academic #documentary #medieval
"The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise"
This medieval masterpiece was created by Italian painter Giovanni di Paolo in 1445.
The painting presents a vision of Paradise reminiscent of that described by the great Florentine poet Dante in "The Divine Comedy."
#art #arthistory #medieval #MastoArt #Paradise #Dante #poetry #writing
It's #FannyFriday, @antiquidons, @histodons & @medievodons, a day all about the #vulva in art & history 👌
Toot vulva #artefacts & #art, vulva #funfacts, or teach us some vulva #history!
Do you have a #FannyFriday offering today, @rogueclassicist @phistorians @Chapps @vagina_museum @roob @emmaaum?
#medieval #ancientRome #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt
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Could any scholars of Old English recommend a translation of The Wanderer from the Exeter Book ?
Grateful for any boosts.
Hevajra appears on this 15th-century thangka in his three-headed and four-armed form. This manifestation is drawn from the Hevajra Tantra, a text revered by the Sakya order of Tibetan Buddhism, who likely commissioned this painting from a Newari artist from Nepal.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hevajra-mandala-newari.html
#buddhism #buddhist #meditation #mandala #ancient #medieval #old
Customer: So we want a portrait of Francis of Mayrone and decorative words
Scribe: How decorative
C: Use your best judgement
S: !!!!!!!!!
<a few days later>
C: I ... should have been more specific
(#Vatican Borg.lat.752 f,1r)
#Medieval #Medievodons
It's time for #OldEnglish #WordOfTheDay and also the #AngloSaxon unattested #Saint of the month.
gomel-ferhþ [ ᚷᚩᛗᛖᛚᚠᛖᚱᚻᚦ ]: old sprit / old soul / wise heart or mind
gomel: Advanced in age, aged, old, ancient
ferhþ: 1. life 2. heart ; spirit ; mind
This is sometimes associated with people of great and deep magic. People of great wisdom and compassion.
An unattested #AngloSaxon saint from northern #Kent, Ædgingra (Blessed Vassal / Disciple), was said to be a gomel-ferhþ. He was known as a local healer and one who was very skilful in the arts of healing magics.
One story goes he was visiting the Kentish village of Hartlip, where when to pray under a tree and passed away peacefully.
After several days the villagers approached him and realised he had died. However, this body had not attached any flies and did not smell. In stead of disturbing him, they brought earth to where the rain kneeled and buried him. This became the spot there St Michael and All Angels Church was built.
They say, that during the rebuilding process in the early 1500s, as they dug down into the foundations, the body of the local saint was found, still in perfect condition.
Pronunciation: https://files-thefolklore-cafe.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/attachments%2Fgomel-ferh%C3%BE.m4a
(Artwork by me)
#histodons #linguistcs #medieval #medievodons #storytelling #storytellingart #folklore