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349d

https://youtu.be/rl47P3O8ovc?si=R5oHLtRlo933Z84K

La meva #CançóDelDia per al divendres 16 d'agost és aquesta dels #Tanzwut #Berlín #FolkMetal #MètalIndustrial #Medieval 🫥!

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226d

Rebellion. #grickledoodle #jester #medieval #cartoon #drawing #funny (Still 10% OFF nearly all items at gricklemart.com for just a little longer!)

A cartoon illustration of a court jester putting a king in a choke hold. Caption reads "He was sick of having to explain the punchlines."

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251d

I live in academic isolation, kept sane only by wife and gaming group. Anybody need a few lively guest lectures on Scandinavia's #Prehistory and #MiddleAges?

#academia #archaeology #vikings #medieval

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123d

A Journey Through Dante’s Inferno: A Brief Guide

by Thom Delapa

Dante’s Inferno is hailed as a medieval masterpiece and a precursor to the Renaissance, with T.S. Eliot having ranked it alongside Shakespeare.

https://www.thecollector.com/journey-through-dante-inferno/

#books #literature #medieval

Inferno, Canto XXXIII–XXXIV by Andrea di Cione di Orcagna

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82d

Vikings on the Silk Roads

The Norse ravaged much of Europe for centuries. They were also cosmopolitan traders who followed trade winds into the Far East

by Neil Price

https://aeon.co/essays/the-viking-age-is-undergoing-a-revisionist-transformation?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=62e2dccb8a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d88b59c7bc-72664972

#history #medieval

Radziwill Letopis, fol. 14v Miniature: Oleg of Novgorod's campaign against Constantinople (s. Rus'–Byzantine War 907).

In the miniature, Oleg leads a flotilla of Rus' warriors, shown arriving at the fortified walls of Constantinople, known then as Tsargrad. The scene is highly stylized, with iconic domed towers and crenellated walls symbolizing the grandeur and defenses of the Byzantine capital. The Rus’ soldiers are depicted in uniform armor and helmets, often in motion, emphasizing the military strength and organization of Oleg’s force.

A notable element in many visual representations of this campaign—including this one—is the legendary tactic attributed to Oleg: dragging his ships across land to attack the city from an unexpected direction, though this is not always explicitly shown. The image may also include symbolic gestures of negotiation or surrender, referencing the favorable trade treaty Oleg secured with Byzantium as a result of this campaign.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Radzivill_Chronicle#/media/File:14_2_List_of_Radzivill_Chron.jpg

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77d

Uninvolved in the conclave, the #Vatican libraries digitized 58 #manuscripts
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week19.html
Including a counterfeit 14th C Dante, a ton of 19th C music, more Sistine Diaries, occult tests, travel guides, glossed classics, Persian poetry and more!
@bookstodon @medievodon #Medieval #Medievodons

f.2v from Vat.lat.10272, a counterfeit 14th C manuscript of Dante. It contains a single column of 15th C style "humanist" script, with red letters to start important parts of the narrative. This page comes from the 3rd canto, and starts at the top "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate"

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Page 4, f.2v, from Capp.Sist.215.pt.28, a manuscript of liturgical music from 1721. There are 6 staves of music, most with lyrics below them. Three are in plainchant neumes, the rest are in 18th C white-note notation

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Crowd of the damned. Pamplona Bible, Navarre 1197. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 108, fol. 254r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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52d

Paru avec un peu de retard, mais ça y est 🥳

https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/agstm202464226

https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04944680v1

Où un texte antique est (encore) sauvé de la disparition par les petites manies d'un intello carolingien (Florus)

La lettre aux moines d'un évêque Valérien (qu'on n'est pas sûr d'identifier par ailleurs) n'avait jamais été rééditée depuis 1612… et elle avait un petit trou. C'est réparé 🛠️

#bookstodon #bookhistory #histodons #ecdotics #FlorusDeLyon #ChurchHistory #medieval @histodons @bookhistodons

Première page de mon article "La lettre aux moines de l'évêque Valérien"

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63d

Only 11 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week

https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week21.html

The bulk are from the archives of the Cappella Pontificia. Withs one more Diary and a 16th C Russian Evangilary completing the week's work
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

f.3v from Capp.Sist.670, a page of italian style script from 1537

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A page of 16th C liturgical Russian from P.I.O.slav.48, f.1v. There is a large title band in red, with several lines of rubric below it. There are two columns of black acrostic filling the majority of the page

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49d

67 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican last week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week23.html
Mostly Sistine Choir, including music, regulations, and more diaries. In addition three Persian works, one more Ge'ez, 2 vol. letters of Urban VIII, Alain de Lille, and a bit more
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons

a page of music from f.1v of Capp.Sist.247. The word "Credo" is written at the top left of the page, the rest of which is covered by staves of music with lyrics below

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a 15th C table of contents from Barb.lat.503. There are two columns of late gothic text, where each section begins with a pilcrow, alternating red and blue. On the right of each columns are chapter numbers in red roman numerals

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61d

I launched Wordhord v2.0 today and noticed this review while I was in App Store Connect.

If you want an app to cheer you up, check it out (it's free).

Learn an Old English word every day in an app with a unique medieval style.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/old-english-wordhord/id1535982564

#iOSDev #OldEnglish #Medieval

5 stars. Great Whenever I get sad about the world I remember the lengths nerd will go to to educate people about interesting stuff. 10/10. April 18, 2025. Review_Lord_69

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20d

only 34 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week27.html
including a ton of musical volumes, more about Barberini popes, a printed missal, an arabic christian medical miscellany and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

f.1r from Urb.lat.109. It is two columns of printed gothic text, with many of the lines in red, with italian borders on top, bottom and right. There are large illuminated capitols in both columns, and an empty rondel at bottom for a coat of arms. The library has put their ownership stamp in the middle of this rondel

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41d

38 #Manuscripts digitized from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week24.html
Mostly in the Cappella Pontificia archives (music!) and the diaries of the puntatore (now >75%). Otherwise a 18th C Megillat Esther, a Glagolitic breviary, printed, Persian poetry, and more
@bookhistodons @medievodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A section of Vat.ebr.533. An architectural border, with columns and friezes at the bottom, contains 5 arcaded sections of hebrew text in a small square italian hand. There are floral elements above

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f.3r from Borg.il.19. A page of a liturgical calendar from a breviary printed in glagolitic. There are columns at the left for calculating Easter, and the saints and feasts are in red and black on the right

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Daily Life in the Medieval Home

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/daily-life-medieval-home/

Books about Medieval Civilization at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/404

#medieval #history

A row of half - timbered houses with green shutters / A row of houses with green and white shutters. - picyrl.com

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176d

Evil Dead/Army of Darkness. ‘London Rothschild Hours’ ('Hours of Joanna I of Castile’), Ghent ca. 1500. British Library, Add 35313, fol. 158v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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164d

Fool riding a goat. Psalter and hours (‘Prayerbook of Alphonso V of Aragon’), Valencia ca. 1436-1443. BL, Additional 28962, fol. 136v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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Only 4 #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week28.html Contains: stuff about 16th C Ecclesiastical Hungary, the case for canonization of Philip Benizi, a musical setting of Psalm 149, and a 1705 dissertation on the Column of Antonius Pius.
#Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons @bookhistodons

A page of music in dark brown ink from f.2v of Capp.Sist.357. There are no lyrics, but 18th C musical notation covering the entire page

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f.8v from Barb.lat.2066, a page of pretty but impossible to read 16th C cursive in a single column

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34d

Only a bare 13 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week25.html
Includes a few more late musical volumes from the Sistine, some papal briefs, a musical about St. Boniface written by pope Clement IX, and more
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

A page of text from a sermon from Vat.lat.11446, f.47r. It has a single column of black text in a strange hybrid hand, and a large red L to start the second paragraph

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A page of plainchant music from Capp.Sist.440, f.4v. It has five staves of square notes on red staff lines, with a block of roman text in the middle, in red and black. There are Respond symbols on the right

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34d

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe.

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#OTD, 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”

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#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #14thcentury #medieval #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns

Poem: "Scots Wha Hae", by Robert Burns

(tune: Hey, Tutti Tatie)

Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome to your gory bed‍‍
‍‍Or to victorie!

Now’s the day, and now’s the hour:
See the front o’ battle lour,
See approach proud Edward’s power— ‍‍
‍‍Chains and slaverie!

Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave?
Wha sae base as be a slave?—‍‍
‍‍Let him turn, and flee!

Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand or freeman fa’, ‍‍
‍‍Let him follow me!

By Oppression’s woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains,
We will drain our dearest veins ‍‍
‍‍But they shall be free!

Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!—
‍‍Let us do or die!

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29d

Queerness in Scotland has always existed, hidden in medieval manuscripts, coded in Jacobite poetry, or expressed through the arts. In the first of a 3-part series, the National Galleries of Scotland explores queer artforms & artists from Scotland, past & present

#Pride #PrideDay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBCxUmPBho

#Scottish #literature #poetry #art #manuscripts #medieval #18thcentury #history #jacobites #queerhistory #queerness #Pride #PrideDay #InternationalPrideDay #LGBTQ

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28d

49 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week26.html
Including a ton more from the Cappella Sistina, both archival and diaries, a vol of 10th C sermons, Ausonius (including the wedding cento!), a map of the roman forum and more
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

A decorated page from a Missa, Chig.B.VII.210 f.12v. There is a rotunda gothic hand for two columns with red rubrications within the text and several, illuminated initials. There is a narrow border on the left with several birds and acrobats, and a interlace at hte bottom

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A page of 17th C Italian cursive in a single column of brown ink. There are several corrections in the text and a small marginal note at the bottom left. From Barb.lat.2670 f.12r

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another week, another 29 #Manuscripts digitized by the #vatican https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week30.html
Including plays by Sebastiano Baldin, Euclid, Ethiopic liturgy, dated and glossed Seneca, patristics, papal history, and Peñafort... oh my!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

Ott.lat.1585 f.1r. A page of italian gothictext with an elaborate border and illuminated iniial S at left. The text has a small central block with a bracket of commentary on the top right

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f.21r from Ott.lat.1551. A page of Euclids elements in a highly abbreviated gothic hand, in a single column. on the right edge are a series of geometric diagrams running vertically

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The Battle of Harlaw was fought #OTD, 24 July, 1411. Before the battle the Clan Donald bard Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich composed this brosnachadh or incitement to battle. Each line contains 2 describing words, & each successive pair of lines all begin with the same letter while retaining the 7-syllable format of each line. The poet works through the entire Gaelic alphabet in sequence.

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https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverurie/battleofharlaw/index.html

#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #medieval #history #battle

Brostughadh-catha Chlann-Domhnaill, Là Chatha Gharbhaich
Lachlann Mòr MacMhuirich

A Chlanna Cuinn, cuimhnichibh
Cruas an am na h-iorghaile:
Gu h-àirneach, gu h-arranta,
Gu h-athlamh, gu h-allanta,
Gu beòdha, gu barramhail,
Gu brìoghmhor, gu buan-fheargach,
Gu calma, gu curanta,
Gu cròdha, gu cath-bhuadhach,
Gu dùr is gu dàsannach,
Gu dian is gu deagh-fhulang,
Gu h-èasgaidh, gu h-eaghnamhach,
Gu h-éidith’, gu h-eireachdail,
Gu fortail, gu furachail,
Gu frithir, gu forniata,
Gu gruamach, gu gràineamhail,
Gu gleusta, gu gaisgeamhail,
Gu h-ullamh, gu h-iorghaileach,
Gu h-olla-bhorb, gu h-àibheiseach,
Gu h-innill, gu h-inntinneach,
Gu h-iomdha, gu h-iomghonach,
Gu laomsgar, gu làn-athlamh,
Gu làidir, gu luath-bhuilleach,
Gu mearghanta, gu mór-chneadhach,
Gu meanmnach, gu mìleanta,
Gu neimhneach, gu naimhdeamhail,
Gu niatach, gu neimh-eaglach,
Gu h-obann, gu h-olla-ghnìomhach,
Gu h-oirdheirc, gu h-oirbheartach,
Gu prap is gu prìomh-ullamh,
Gu prosta, gu prionnsamhail,
Gu ruaimneach, gu ro-dhàna,

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https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-deep-roots-of-paganism

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Francis Young's "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples ".

This book sounds like essential reading for anyone interested in paganism, neopaganism, and the beliefs and practices of those living between the Baltic and the Urals as they encountered Christians.

#Paganism #Neopaganism #FrancisYoung #History #Sámi #Finland #Lithuania #Creolization #Medieval

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