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  1. started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_H @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist

  2. It's #IMC2025 week! 🏰 The GHI London, the @dhi-paris.fr and the @germanhistsoc.bsky.social‬ warmly invite the wider #medievalist community to join us for a friendly get-together on 9 July at 7pm in the Great Woodhouse Room at University House @imc-leeds.bsky.social! #medieval #medievalhistory

  3. Random Fact for Fantasy World-Builders:

    In medieval households, the "still room" was managed by the lady of the house, where practical skills like food preservation, perfume making, and preparing herbal remedies were taught.

    More Info(wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_ro
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  4. For those interested, ‘Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg’ by Ben Pohl is free to access until the 20th of July from Cambridge University Press.

    ‘This Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (1143–78). Frowin was the first abbot of Engelberg whose book provision policy relied on domestic production serviced by an internal scribal workforce, and his tenure marked the first major expansion of the community's library. This Element's in-depth discussion of nearly forty colophons inscribed in the books made for this library during Frowin's transformative abbacy offers a fresh perspective on monastic publishing practice in the twelfth century by directing our view to a mode of publication that has received only limited attention in scholarship to date.’

    cambridge.org/core/elements/pu

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  5. Panic in Detroit (David Bowie), as I had to hand over my "I am autistic"-button at the airport security... for it was a " sharp object" . 🙁

    But... I made it to #kalamazoo! Cannot wait for the International Congress on Medieval Studies to start!

    Of course, I also brought one of my flutes with me, for some neomedieval entertainment. 😉

    #Kzoo2023 #KingAlfred #fanfiction #fanstudies #medievalist #medievaltwitter #thelastkingdom #medieval #fanart #actuallyautistic #fanscholar

  6. Finally finished two rush projects and this allows me to continue on with the Marginalia Tarot Deck.

    Today it's the Eight of Coins which is based on The Romance of the Rose. Français380.

    It's a real learning experience on duplicating all these medieval painting styles digitally.

    #tarot #tarotcards #tarotdeck #marginalia #marginaliatarotdeck #medievalmanuscript #affinityphoto #digitaltarotcard #tarotreadersofinstagram #Français380 #8ofcoins
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  7. So much going on here. Love the face on the shield of the satyr and the hybrid man with the unicorn horn. No idea what they're fighting about.

    not cited by original poster. Only it's from the Bodleian Library

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  8. This is a two-for-one

    First, it's another one of those "Pink Barbie Castles" we've seen in many manuscripts.

    Second, it's some more of that wonderful Escher architecture which I love.

    Cases of Noble Men and Women. Français 190_1

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  9. The origin of the roadside billboard had its roots in 15th century France.

    They caused many a fatal accident by distracting traveling knights on their way to … well, wherever knights were off to.

    Cyropedia of the young nobles. Cotton MS Black D IX, f 40. France. late c1400s. BL

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  10. A fashionable lady, riding a fire-breathing dragon, holding a shield with a bat, there's a snake crawling up her arm, she's wearing a shiny helmet with some fringe, AND ( to top it off ) she's got bees in her bonnet.

    Etymachia. Clm 3003. Germany. c1430

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  11. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
    A tale of a fateful trip
    That started from this tropic port
    Aboard this tiny ship.

    The mate was a mighty sailing man,
    The skipper brave and sure.
    Five passengers set sail that day
    For a forty day tour, a forty day tour.

    The weather started getting rough,
    The tiny ship was tossed,
    If not for the courage of the fearless crew
    The Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost.

    Apocalypse de S. Jean. Français 13096, f. 11v

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  12. This was captioned as "Punishment of the slothful ( top ) and the lusful ( bottom )

    To me, it's the greatest combination seeing it's hybrid ( man / chicken monster ) riding a snail.

    Marginalia doesn't get better than this one.

    Calendrier des berges, Paris. c1493

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  13. Jack took a job as a letter messenger.

    He'd walk from town to town where people would either pin letters to him or check if they got mail.

    Not much of a job, but he got lots of exercise.

    Nürnberger Schembart-Buch. Kiel Cod. Ms. KB 395. c1500s. Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel

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  14. Hello to another #Caturday.

    Here, the secret council of cats continues it's plan of world domination with lessons on purring, demanding food, and being extremely cute.

    "Just stay the course. We are already in command. Let's just keep it that way.""

    Cod. Pal. germ. 84, f. 227va

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  15. #introductions:

    I’m a #musicologist and #medievalist, an early morning writer and a regular woods-walker, and a generalist in the classroom (#Shakespeare; #pandemics). I research women’s monastic communities, especially their libraries. I’m currently focused on the Tertiaries of Thalbach in #Bregenz, Austria, with a side-tour to the #chaplains of the city. I’ve published on women as scribes and on historiography, but a lot of my current engagement is with German prayer-books.

  16. i beg your indulgence. your... plenary indulgence. the little paper is not from the #BookOfCerne for the record :)
    #medievalist #illumination #indulgences #uncial