Apologies for the plethora of typos 🫣I got too excited to share Lidwina when I realized it was her feast day

100%! Ice skating is an ooooold sport :)

Image source: Woodcut illustration from Johannes Brugman's Vita Sanctae Lidwinae, 1498. IA. 48805

Lidwina was renowned as a holy woman on her lifetime and many miracles were credited to her. She died age 52.

Today some speculate that she may have been affected my multiple sclerosis.

April 14, feast day of Saint Lidwina, a 14th century Dutch mystic. Aged 15 she fell and broke a rib ice skating, causing her paralysis and chronic pain.

Lidwina turned to God in her suffering, practicing intense fasting & prayer. She is remembered as the patron saint of ice skating & chronic pain.

My #sundaysentence this week relates to the dangers found on the road to Galicia: "One French guidebook of the early twelfth century issued grave warnings of the loose morals of the people who dwelled there, such as Navarrese farmers 'who practice unclean fornication' with their mules and mares."

Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh

from James A Brundage’s Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe

are you in the clear??

advice for the 14th c housewife - read all about it!

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But as I recall, even then it was #news to not use gloves

Well the photo of myself I posted was from 2009, so at least seventeen years and counting…

Amazing

obligatory post of me at 21 just done arguing with the photographer for my college magazine about why I should not have gloves on

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE LEARN THIS

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.

More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" publicdomainreview.org/essay/h... #OTD

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Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind. A little late for medieval, but shh, let me have this one. I could stare at the details all day.

eyyyy

On Medieval Widowhood marriage, property, and survival in the middle ages

I've been fascinated by the ways medieval women found autonomy. A few weeks ago I wrote about anchoresses. This week, a far more fun way to find freedom and occasionally power: widowhood.
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I'm going to need everyone to be really, really normal about this

two wise men nourished by Wisdom. Aurora Consurgens, s. Rh. 172 Parchemin, 100 f.

An 14th-15th century ‘coarse border ware’ condiment dish. Found in a London cesspit.
Appears to be in great condition.
Which makes me think someone dropped it in by accident.
Which makes me think someone was snacking on the toilet!
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every time I’m at tate britain I love seeing hoards of women flocked around this painting like a siren’s call, dragging half interested men to Gaze Upon Her

need her on a shirt stat

veritable treasure trove on early internet medieval sites

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

"She spoke with such softness that it struck Fernand to the depth of his soul like a blow from a dagger."

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas