(from the Smithfield Decretals)

new fav medieval woman who has had enough (from a copy of the Romance of Lancelot du Lac)

new year, new medieval woman who has had enough (from a book of hours, c. 1300)

when I'm reading a good book and someone interrupts me (from a book of hours c. 1300)

when I'm reading a good book and someone interrupts me (from a book of hours c. 1300)

(from a fifteenth century book of hours)

woman with a unicorn (from a thirteenth-century bestiary)

ok this is admittedly off topic but I couldn't not share this medieval illustration of a "crab"

keeping receipts

keeping receipts

new fav medieval woman who has had enough (from a copy of the Romance of Lancelot du Lac)

from a book of hours (use of Rome)

from a book of hours from France (15th c)

legendary side eye (from a 14th c psalter)

tired of being in the margins

from a book of hours, c. 1300

from a 14th century Lancelot cycle manuscript

from a collection of medieval medical texts

from a fifteenth century book of hours

"nope" (Book of Hours, Use of Rome, c. 1300)

"ugh"

from a copy of the Romance of Alexander

from a Book of Hours (Trinity College Cambridge MS B.11.22)

from the Hours of Isabella Stuart (France, c. 1431)

skeptical (from a 13th century Book of Hours)

from a copy of the Romance of Alexander, c. 1338-1344

(from the Smithfield Decretals)

from the Pabenham-Clifford Hours (14th c)

another medieval woman who just isn't feeling it (from a 12th c casket in the BM collection)

Mary at the Annunciation (from The Pabenham-Clifford Hours; 14th c)

Hi. Here's one - detail from the Birth of Mary, 1490-1510, Ansbach, Germany (Schwanenritteraltar, St. Gumbertus) - though it's very late medieval

Grateful to those on medievalsky and beyond who have been welcoming this project!

having nun of it

not taking the L

having nun of it

another medieval woman who has had enough

Hello and may I offer you this extremely pissed off Mary, having an absolute 'mare of a day with the baby (from the Burrell Collection)

bored game

"wele actuelly, forsoþ"

hello bluesky and medievalsky! I'm a medievalist and this is my new account dedicated to posting a collection that I've gathered while doing manuscript research of medieval women who have simply had enough