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Saint Gudule https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/479793

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thou misshapen Dick

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chasing a vibe

heard someone say this year has felt like being awake during a surgery and they’re not wrong

a very happy back to school week for all parents who celebrate 🎉

important discovery

“I made the logo of Christians!”

Manicule in the wild, Orrs Island, ME

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

It’s the driest spring on record here in the UK. Just a little reminder to please leave a couple of water trays out in your garden for the birds and little critters. They really, really need it right now. 🐦‍⬛🪲🐭 PLEASE SHARE TO GET THE WORD OUT THERE.

That should do the trick.

“You’re literally eating the flesh and drinking the blood of God during the Eucharist. It doesn’t get much more erotic than that.” -Sufjan Stevens

Local bookstore advertising limited edition Thomas Mann Playmobil figure, holding a book that shows a page from Buddenbrooks. I have to order this, right?

another *proud parenting moment* from the not-quite five year old- [child scrutinizes bookshelf] “WE HAVE A BOOK ABOUT HENRY VIII!”

Living Crafts Festival at Hatfield Park never disappoints

LEAD INTO GOLD LEAD INTO GOLD this has been an exhausting week for medievalists www.home.cern/news/news/ph...

My husband asked our 5 year old if they knew anything about Christianity (prepping pope talks obv). “Sure, I’m learning about that in school. And mama told me that they use a special color for the dress of baby Jesus’s mother.” !!!!!!!!!!!! parenting win.

this is how I found out

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well

It’s best to be prepared (for the inevitable anchorhold)

On her feast #otd - she died in #Rome 29 Apr 1380, here’s Catherine of Siena as drawn by Nicolaas van der Horst, c. 1614-1638. (British Museum)

Did I find the Juggalo fingerdeck or did it find me?

CALLING ALL MEDIEVALISTS AND THE MEDIEVAL-CURIOUS: the Guild of Medievalist Makers **lives**!!!!!!! This is a MUST-join for all creative academics, academic creators, and anyone wondering how to merge creative practice with curiosity about the Middle Ages. Please join, and please share widely!

luteal phase [su-cide of Dido, BNF Fr 874, 1505-1510]

A very happy The Barbican Magnolias Are Out, to all who celebrate.

Rothschild Canticles, Beinecke MS 404, fol. 64r. Mary as the Mulier amicta sole (woman of the apocalypse). 14th c.

Cluster brooch with Letters Spelling "Amor" mid-15th century, #French (Met Museum)

another fruitful day of research

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

portrait of the artist as a college student* *don’t come at me for the gloves, they were requested by the interviewer for the photo. no page was touched while gloved 🙅‍♀️

“the phantasm of the woman astride haunts the theologians’ dreams" - from 'Medieval Prostitution,' Jacques Rossiaud, 1988.

can't talk, shopping for hildegard of bingen soup

🎉castration friday! 🎉 no? not a thing?

when the random screenshot found on your device lines up with your most recent post 🐗

Demon Swine.

anyone want to guess what this is in reference to? (no cheating!)

Livre de bonnes moeurs (Book of good morals), Jacques Le Grant, 1470 BNF Département des manuscrits, Français 17116, fol. 133v.

Giovanni di Paolo (1444-50) Paradiso 34, Dante and Beatrice before the 🦅 of Justice. British Library.

in a continuation of the series called 'what mad screenshot have I found on my device today'

Pleurants, Anonymous. Castile, ca 1295. From the tomb of Don Sancho Sáiz de Carrillo and his wife Juana, San Andrés de Mahamud, Burgos, Spain.

Monday again, huh?