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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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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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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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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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Only 10 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week31.html
Inc. 19th C Palestrina MS copies, a Mass setting in print by Borja, 17th C papal records, a 14th c Missal, some Orations, Sonnets Madrigals, and a bit more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

a page of missal in two columns of 14th C gothic. There is a line of music at the top left, and a large crucifixion scene at the bottom left. Source S.Maria.Magg.98 f.160v

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Title page from Capp.Sist.157, a book printed in 1602. It has the author Alphonsi Lobo de Borja in large roman letters at the top, and a large complex metal engraving taking up much of the page. The print location and date are at the bottom

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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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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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A reasonably strong 75 #Manuscripts were added by the #Vatican this past week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week32.html
Includes several incunabula hybrids, several Ge'ez liturgicals, Petrarch, 12th C Priscian, illuminated Ovid, legal texts, papal-adjacent docs and more!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

a presentation scene. A man kneels at bottom right presenting a book to king edward IV seated on a throne under a pink canopy. f.1r from Vat.lat.3586

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A page of 13th c script in two columns. Each column is interrupted by a geometric diagram related to spirals. from Ott.lat.1850, f.15r

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f.1r from Ottl.at.1433. A 14th C italian gothic hand in one column with a massive illuminated initial I at top left. Floral borders at top, bottom and left

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Dragon Awakes

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/dragon-awakes-justin-farrimond.html

If you were hoping to sneak past the dragon into the castle gate you failed. Now what do you do?

#PhotoOfTheDay #Dragon #Photography #Art #BlackAndWhite #BelieveInFilm #ArtPrint #Medieval #History #Fantasy #DungeonsAndDragons #FilmPhotography

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Black and white film photograph showing a dragon amongst wildflowers by an arched castle door.

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There's a widespread myth that medieval people used spices to cover up the taste of rotten meat.

The whole story traces back to one book. In 1939, a scientist named J.C. Drummond published The Englishman's Food and suggested that medieval recipes were so heavily spiced because the meat was frequently tainted. No evidence. Just an assumption. One sentence in one book published 85 years ago.

@Dr_TheHistories #medieval #spices #food #history

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Translating the Saga of the Earls of Orkney
Deep Dives into Orkneyinga saga: Notes from the Translators’ Workshop
5 March, University of Aberdeen – free, all welcome

Prof Judith Jesch is an expert on Norse Scotland & its literature, women in the Viking Age, & runology. Her new translation of Orkneyinga saga was published by Birlinn in 2025

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/events/23477/

#Scottish #literature #saga #Orkney #medieval #Vikings #Norse #translation

Book cover

The Saga of the Earls of Orkney
Edited and translated by Judith Jesch

A deep red background, decorated with examples of Norse animal knotwork. Ranged below the title, along the base of the cover, are four of the walrus-ivory Lewis chessmen: from left to right, a standing warrior holding a sword; a seated king, a sword across his knees; a seated queen, one arm held up to her face; and a staring warrior holding a sword and a large kite shield in front of his body. This last chessman is chewing the top of his shield in a depiction of berserker battle-frenzy.

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#FotoVorschlag 'Mittelalterlich' / 'Medieval'

Wer einen sehr gepflegten, mittelalterlichen Ort besuchen möchte, dem Empfehle ich Eguisheim im Elsass, Frankreich.

If you’re looking to visit a beautifully preserved medieval village, I recommend Eguisheim in Alsace, France.

#photography #fotografie #streetphotography #mittelalter #medieval #fachwerkhaus #plusbeauxvillagesdefrance #eguisheim #alsace #elsass

Enge Gasse mit alten, zum Teil krummen Fachwerkhäusern und viel Blumenschmuck.

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📚 Between Two Fires by: Christopher Buehlman

The year is 1348.

Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising i...

https://bookblabla.com/book/between-two-fires

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #fantasy #historical #medieval

The year is 1348.

Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith?

She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.

There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf. The beloved BookTok sensation is now coming to Nightfire.

And Lucifer said: Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down...

At the Publisher

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New Open-Access ebook

Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the ‪Society of Antiquaries of Scotland‬

Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts

https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25

#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern

Black illustration on a blue background with overlaid text: New Open Access E-book

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Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated 1,200-year-old Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack where there was a workshop turning animal hides into vellum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4jxj0e3jo

#Scottish #literature #medieval #earlymedieval #history #BookHistory #BookofKells #arthistory #CelticArt

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Disk of Medieval Times for the TI-99/4A

https://youtu.be/nCqkv0CdiJ8?si=D6zZYLw0SgERAdCk

#DiskofMedievalTimes #TI994A #Educational #Edutainment #MedievalTimes #Medieval #MiddleAges #KenGilliland #NotungSoftware

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Done is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The ȝettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe triumphall rasit is of the croce…

—William Dunbar, c.1460–1520. The poem was most likely written when Dunbar was at James IV’s court

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #medieval #medievalliterature #Easter #Scots #Scotslanguage

Done is a battell on the dragon blak
William Dunbar (c. 1460–1520)

Done is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The ȝettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe triumphall rasit is of the croce;
The diuillis trymmillis with hiddous voce,
The saulis ar borrowit and to the blis can go,
Chryst with his blud our ransonis dois indoce:
Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.

Dungin is the deidly dragon Lucifer,
The crewall serpent with the mortall stang;
The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char
Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for us so lang,
Thinking to grip us in his clowis strang;
The mercifull lord wald nocht that it wer so.
He maid him for to felȝe of that fang:
Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.

He for our saik that sufferit to be slane
And lyk a lamb in sacrifice wes dicht,
Is lyk a lyone rissin vp agane
And as a gyane raxit him on hicht;
Sprungin is Aurora radius and bricht,
On loft is gone the glorius Appollo,
The blisfull day departit fro the nycht:
Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.

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The grit victour agane is rissin on hicht,
That for our querrell to the deth wes woundit:
The sone that wox all paill now schynis bricht,
And, dirknes clerit, our fayth is now refoundit;
The knell of mercy fra the hevin is soundit,
The Cristin ar deliverit of thair wo,
The Iowis and thair errour ar confoundit:
Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.

The fo is chasit, the battell is done ceis,
The presone brokin, the jevellouris fleit and flemit;
The weir is gon, confermit is the peis,
The fetteris lowsit and the dungeoun temit;
The ransoun maid, the presoneris redemit,
The feild is win, ourcumin is the fo,
Dispulit of the tresur that he ȝemit:
Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.

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Siege of the Castle of Ladies. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Add 42130, fol. 75v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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The Big Bang Theory of Medieval Scots Literature
10 June, Royal Over-Seas League, London – free

No surviving works in Older Scots appear until the 1370s, when John Barbour – without warning or explanation for the bemused modern literary historian – produced THE BRUS, a vast chivalric biography of Robert the Bruce. Prof Rhiannon Purdie explores the remarkable & seemingly sudden origins of literature in Scots

@litstudies

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/development/making-waves/lecture-series/

#Scottish #literature #medieval #Scotslanguage

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What Lies Beneath? Pictish Monsters & the Living Frame
25 June, online – tickets £3.96–£7.21

“Medieval art is well known for its monsters but Pictish art seems to take this fascination to another level.”

Join Professor Heather Pulliam from the Edinburgh School of Art in Groam House Museum's Annual Academic Lecture

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-lies-beneath-pictish-monsters-and-the-living-frame-tickets-1986892789820

#Scottish #Scotland #history #Pictish #archaeology #arthistory #earlymedieval #medieval #monsters #carvedstones

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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 (c1320–95) 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