Well actually (pushing up my glasses), you’ll see Quintorius has a tome in one hand and a scroll in the other. 😄

Getting ready for Strixhaven prerelease! Love that Book is now an Artifact type. Also happy to support a LGBTQ+ positive wizard school.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

My Little Pony generation one (1982-1995)

More #histmed. @theguardian.com has changed the image accompanying their review of this new book on the Black Death, & explain the prior one was leprosy. But they don't acknowledge the source of the corrected information! Folks, this info comes from scholarship. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Say less, brus.

The oldest surviving Hungarian private charter, 1079.

Hungary first became integrated into the Latin Christian network in the 11th c.: in this recent EME article, Pavol Hudáček explains how this process can be traced through religious donations.
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Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found after being missing for 40 years An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon seal belonging to Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered more than 40 years after being declared lost. The wax impression of the ‘Saint-Denis seal’ disappeared without ...

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Remembering the time that the FBI thought a historian was the Unabomber...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

The opening page of the Hague 15th-century copy of a Dutch translation of Guy de Chauliac's (d. 1368) Surgery. Source: Den Haag, Huis van het boek: MMW 10 C 17, https://db.ecodices.nl/detail/2717/overview.

A page from a 15th-century Dutch translation of Guy de Chauliac's surgery, here with images of several types of surgical instruments. Source: Den Haag, Huis van het boek: MMW 10 C 17, f. 83r, https://db.ecodices.nl/detail/2717/overview.

An image from the Bristol copy of the original Latin version of Guy de Chauliac's surgery. This scene shows a surgeon or anatomy teacher (on the right) pointing out parts of the anatomy of a skeleton, while an assistant or student stands by, looking. Source: Bristol Central Library, MS 10, ff. 25r. Photo credit: Monica H. Green.

An image from the Bristol copy of the original Latin version of Guy de Chauliac's surgery. This scene shows a surgeon (on the left) incision an inguinal bubo of a plague victim (who also presents with a bubo under his arm). Source: Bristol Central Library, MS 10, f. 43v. Photo credit: Monica H. Green.

A rare evening I get to scroll thru a MS. Tonight it is a 15thC Dutch translation of Guy de Chauliac's surgery. Last time I looked at a Guy MS, it was the Bristol copy which I got to peruse in person w/ the great @themedievaldrk.bsky.social. Bristol wins, b/c it has better pictures!

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Photo of a cuneiform tablet shown from the front, back, and various side angles. At the bottom is a watermark for the Yale Babylonian Collection, and to the left of that watermark is a 1cm scale. Based on the scale, the tablet is about 4-5cm wide and 3-4cm tall. In the bottom left corner of the image is a tiny winged creature thumbnail, and along the left side are the letters and numbers "GCBC 766 (YPM BC 034383)"

Today, I've been reading a very old medical commentary from ancient Uruk, written in the Akkadian language.

It's a tiny cuneiform tablet that explains words and phrases excerpted from another text - a diagnostic manual, known in antiquity as Sa-gig.

SEASON 5 IS LIVE!

In this episode, learn how scholars are bringing historical sourcework into conversation with scientific data in the study of the Black Death.

Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century (Green, Barnhouse, Black, & Beattie) In this episode, historians of medieval medicine Monica H. Green, Winston Black, and Lucy Barnhouse talk with Will Beattie about the genesis of a new open-access teaching module on the Black Death.

Just out! New #plague podcast from the Multicultural Middle Ages on "Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century" with @monicamedhist.bsky.social, Dr. Lucy Barnhouse, and me, interviewed by Will Beattie.

www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemi...

I agree with"o'er", even though the final "r" is a bit too elaborate:
Conquer'd these nations (for but o'er the some
Rule well or I come) sent by providence

Adelard of Bath teaching students, illumination by the so-called 'Virgil Master' in a manuscript (France, ca. 1400) of Adelard’s 'Regulae abaci', today Leiden, University Libraries, SCA 1, fol. 1, https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/1805678#page/5/mode/1up.

AotW: Friederike Pfister, 1107–1137: Adelard of Bath's Questiones naturales Promote "the Studies of the Arabs", TMH 2.2 (2020), doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky

Mmm... gonna get me some of that fine Midwestern "tamped meat".

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

I always wanted the class to go to the Hormel plant in Beloit, WI, where I loved seeing the CHILI SILO. They probably didn't actually want anyone seeing the inside of that factory... www.hormelfoods.com/inspired/sto...

Rural Wisconsin, so a lot of farms and milking cows. Several times brought fresh milk back to class in little bottles and, after hours (it seemed) of vigorous shaking, made butter. Damn, it sounds like I lived in the 15th century but this was the 1980s.

Christina Faraday · At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’ There is much room for improvement in today’s maternity care, but few in Britain would choose to give birth in 1506...

‘A 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scroll’s surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.’

@cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . '' ALT: a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

Ouch.

Bonaiceti, I believe, which is still a common Italian surname.

Someday...

Henbit deadnettle. Terrible name for a sweet little plant!

New UM tagline is up there with:

Two cups of blue pigment powder. The difference between them is marginal.

Not getting over this. One of these is genuine lapis lazuli, the other I made in my kitchen 🤯