#14th-century — Public Fediverse posts

@gisiger This is fascinating!
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @medievodons @histodons

#14thCentury #BlackDeath #pandemic

#TrinityHall explains that the #14thCentury obituary for its founder #BishopBateman (also key to #CaiusCollege) was the first part of a #MortuaryRoll, circulated around the country to announce the news & invite additions.
https://oldlibrarytrinityhall.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/from-mortuary-roll-to-digital-manuscript-the-life-of-william-bateman/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortuary_roll
@medievodons

#medieval #manuscript #CambridgeUniversity

“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself”

The Declaration of Arbroath – a letter from the Community of the Realm of Scotland to Pope John XXII, asserting Scotland’s independence & supporting Robert I as the rightful king – was signed #OTD, 6 April, 1320

https://unesco.org.uk/our-sites/memory-of-the-world/the-declaration-of-arbroath

#Scottish #literature #history #medievalhistory #14thcentury

One day later, 27th March 1359, the statutes were ratified with seals of the Master & Fellows of #ClareCollege & the Chancellor of #CambridgeUniversity. The college seal commemorates the occasion, showing the statutes, which in turn mention the Master, Fellows, & seal.
@medievodons @histodons

#14thCentury #medieval #WaxSeal #LadyOfClare

The patrons of Cambridge’s #14thCentury colleges (predecessors of Trinity College, plus Clare, Pembroke, Gonville, Trinity Hall & Corpus) were convinced of universities as a public good, persevering amid war & plague. The #LadyOfClare fought tyranny, & emphasized the importance of community in her statutes for #ClareCollege. Her friend #MarieDeStPol founded Chris Smith’s college, Pembroke. The intellectual, educational & social vision lives on. 🧵 15/15

Yazids

Also spelled Yesidis.

They’re a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, & Iran, with small numbers living in Armenia & Georgia (the country). Endogamy is the cultural practice of only marrying within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group. The majority of the Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh & Duhok.

Yazidism came about through a complex historical process involving a pre-Islamic Kurdish religious substratum & teachings of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir. Generally, scholars regard Yazidism as an independent religious tradition with deep roots in ancient Iranian beliefs, shaped by later Sufi influences. Yazidism was adopted by many Kurdish tribes & Emirates. It reached as far west as Antioch & as far east as Sulaymaniyah. Sulaymaniyah/Slemani is a city in the East of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Yezidi manuscripts (called misurs) were written in the 13th century. It contains lists of Kurdish tribes affiliated with Yezidi Pir saints. Only 2 of the 40 total manuscripts have been published so far. Namely, the Misur of Pir Sini Darani & the Misur of Pir Xetib Pisi. The list in the Misur of Pir Sini Darani includes several large tribes that have been largely or fully Islamized today.

From the 14th century on, Yazidis developed their own religious & political institutions in the areas where they lived. The Yezidi territories were divided into 7 administrative centers. Each has its own Sincaq (This is an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire). More commonly known as Tawis among the Yezids. Sincaqs are sacred bronze effigies bearing the image of a bird or peacock to symbolize Tawusi Melek. They serve as symbols of power for each administrative center.

Every 6 months, the Yezidi Quwals, who are trained reciters of Qewls & other forms of sacred oral Yezidi tradition, were sent out to other Yezidi-inhabited areas with military protection from the central administrative region of Shekhan & the spiritual center of Lalish.

This tradition serves to preserve the Yazidi faith & doctrine. The Qewals, supported by voluntary alms, led a Sincaq through Yazidi villages to maintain spiritual legitimacy & symbolize the authority of Lalish & the Mir.

During WWI, the Armenian genocide of 1915 caused a mass exodus of Yazidis from Van, Kars, & Bazid, Turkey. Together with many Armenians, they fled from the Ottoman Empire in masses to Transcaucasia (a.k.a. South Caucasus. This is located on the border of Eastern Europe & West Asia, which straddles the southern Caucasus Mountains.).

They followed their families/relatives who had already migrated to the territories of the Russian Empire after fleeing during the Russo-Turkish wars in 1828-1829 & 1877-1878. In May 1918, Ottomans crossed the Akhuryan River to invade the Armenian Republic. The Yezidi participation in the decisive Battle of Sardarabad is still commemorated by Armenians.

Yazidism is a monotheistic faith based on belief in 1 God, who created the world & entrusted it into the care of a Heptad of the 7 Holy Beings. Often known as angels or heft sirr (the 7 Mysteries). Preeminent among these is Tawusi Melek (also known as Melek Taus), the Peacock Angel. Traditionally, Yazidis who marry non-Yazidis are considered to have converted to the religion of their spouse.

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@Rosaliesmedievalwoman In the medieval seal of Clare College Cambridge, an oval Agnus Dei held by St John the Baptist also shows the lamb looking back at the cross:
https://www.barnes1.net/seal/

#14thCentury #AgnusDei #ClareCollege #CambridgeUniversity #WaxSeal #StJohnTheBaptist

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social Your description of this church is a delight - as is the info that this was buried treasure, rediscovered centuries later under the floorboards. I have just been looking at the enlarged details that you have thoughtfully made available on a click through.
Thank you!
#ThreeKings #magi #alabaster #14thCentury #LongMelford

#bookchallenge #alphabetchallenge Y is for The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson #AltHistory #TheBlackDeath #plague #plaguetales #14thcentury #Worldbuilding #ReligiousHistory #religiousevolution #colonialism #IndigenousPower #technology #booksky #bookstagram #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

📜 Ottoman deed recording the sale by a person named Cihanbahş of 27 out of 32 shares of inherited immovable property in the village of Aksaray, attached to Tokat, to the Sheikh Nusret Zawiya, certified by the deputy judge of Zile, October 10, 1360. #14thCentury #Historical

@sohkamyung Here's the book that extended the history of Singapore from two centuries to seven, bringing the #14thCentury Malay civilisation to life. Groundbreaking, in both senses!
https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/singapore-and-the-silk-road-of-the-sea-1300-1800
#Singapore @histodons @bookstodon

@animalculum This is glorious! & would have delighted connoisseurs in the 14th century, a time of experiments with different yellows and golds.

#orpiment #yellow #MedievalArt #14thCentury @medievodons

4 Oct is the feast of St Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order. He's the patron saint of animals, the environment, and ecologists - so it's also #WorldAnimalDay.
🎨 #LuttrellPsalter f60v (East Anglia c.1325-35)

#StFrancis #medieval #manuscript #14thCentury #BritishLibrary @medievodons

@animalculum Vulture archivists!

#14thCentury #birdsnest #vulture #vultures #medieval #archives @medievodons

@throws_lemy An interesting group of finds! Direct link to the article:
https://media.nms.ac.uk/news/evidence-for-medieval-hair-styling-at-the-iconic-eilean-donan-castle-is-revealed-as-rich-archaeological-assemblage-is-acquired-for-the-nation

& the press photos:
https://media.nms.ac.uk/resources/f/press-release-images/eilean-donan-archaeological-assemblage

#EileanDonan #13thCentury #14thCentury #archaeology #hair #medieval #Scotland @medievodons

Feels like just yesterday.
Imbergässlein, #Basel, #BaselStadt #Schweiz
#Citytrip #medieval #Altstadt #14thCentury

#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

@medieval_illuminations
A #14thCentury #seahorse & #trumpetfish for you @projectseahorse

An alternative account of the Bruce–de Bohun duel appears in 1066 & ALL THAT, by WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman, as one of the various (all unfair) reasons for the English defeat

(Historical curiosity: WC Sellar, a Scot, was grandson of Patrick Sellar, the Duke of Sutherland’s factor during the Clearances)

#Scottish #literature #history #medieval #14thcentury #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #humour #humor

Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8

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

Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader

“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots

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📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh

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

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

The humanist and later Pope Pius II visited Vienna in the 1450s and was apparently shocked at what he encountered.

#medievalsexuality #medievalsky #latemedieval #middleages #mittelalter #medievalwomen #14thcentury #15thcentury #livinghistory #reenactment

@petergleick Adding a link to the UK equivalent, Hive, & an independent bookshop that I like to support:
https://www.hive.co.uk/Shops/Between-the-Lines-Great-Bardfield
- but if you can visit in person you will find additional books not available online, such as the new 'History of Great Bardfield' (with a chapter on its #14thCentury prosperity due to the #LadyOfClare). From personal experience, great conversations may ensue!
#IndieBookshop #bookshop @bookstodon