Close up of a gingham skirt, red tights, and black shoes

Egregious tights/shoes combo

Upset a classicist today by pronouncing ‘Loeb’ as ‘lube’

it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z

I have one coping mechanism atm and I’m afraid it’s ‘Lord of the Rings / The Grey Havens Music & Ambience, 3 Hours’ on YouTube

Lovely, springy moss!

Queen’s Lane, a walled medieval street in Oxford, at dusk and lit by streetlights

All quite glowy here

I wondered why my headphones were so quiet. I turned the volume up, then up again. I realised my Bluetooth wasn’t on. I was broadcasting the audiobook of New Moon to the good people of Sainsbury’s.

Perhaps I do see why this isn’t great early morning chat

I was thinking about it in the context of saints who were def not virgins (eg Perpetua and Felicitas) being presented as virginal after their deaths. Like martyrdom had re-virginised them – perhaps bc a recognisable model of female sanctity is constructed via virginity, or at least chastity

This is magnificent (and I have a long white skirt which would go SO perfectly with it)

Oh, terribly wrong

Happy bisexual visibility day! Make the most of being able to see me!

A marginal illustration of a nun sitting on the shoulders of a monk to admire the vine leaf decoration of the page border, from Bodleian Libraries MS. Bodl. 264, f. 98v

Take a look at those leaves! 🍂 To mark the #AutumnEquinox I’m enjoying this 14th-century image of a little nun getting a boost from a monk to admire the vine leaf decoration of the page border 📜🍁

@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Bodl. 264, f. 98v

Perhaps at mid-morning coffee

Absolutely this. I look forward to seeing some of your best shitposting work

Early modern book entitled ‘Sancti Eusebii Vercellensis episcopi’

I spent a good hour looking through this 17th century book for a transcription of a late antique funerary poem. Turns out that it’s in the second edition and the Bodleian only has the first. Irritating world-class library.

I am very new here and it feels NICE. Nostalgic sort of. Like I’m on 2016 medieval twitter

Using an umbrella is so embarrassing. Here is my little portable roof which I leave on trains and in pubs!