West facade of Winchester cathedral in mist and refracted sunlight. Lots of people standing in front including a guy standing on a barrel with a very large pole
Accidentally took this ethereal photo of Winchester cathedral this morning; silhouetted guy is stirring mulled wine with an 8ft pole. Happy Christmas indeed.
The orc from Return of the King saying “The age of men is over. Now the Jingle Hop has begun.” He is wearing a Santa hat
How I conclude my lectures on days when I want to check if my students are paying attention
It was such a joy to look at mss together! Thanks for having me
New favorite little guy just dropped:
Logging back on after a few days of travel and seeing the chip bag has been such a gift
The Treachery of Images painting by René Magritte
Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.
I literally could not be doing what I do without the UChicago Classics Department and the many excellent and patient grad students who helped me through years of Latin
There is some GREAT stuff in here
Can’t argue with that
A 14th century panel painting that shows cosmas and Damian gathered around the bed of the sick man, at left, with a transplanted right leg, and, at right, the saints taking the leg from an exhumed coffin. A black man in the coffin has had his right leg replaced with the sick patient’s leg.
Here’s a 14th c panel showing cosmas and Damian, long after their deaths, miraculously replacing the cancerous leg of a dedicated cleric with the leg of a recently-dead Ethiopian man
I cannot stop watching this; it is extremely Cosmas and Damian coded
Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"
Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."
Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"
Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
Page from a book with a passage highlighted in a red box. The passage says “many things in the new quotes written above have been tested in practice, but several doctors refuse to approve of them because they do not know anything about medicine in practice, but waste time on spinning empty words”
Shout out to John of Greenborough, serving “I did my own research” realness in the early 14th century
This is very cute hi both
Intersection in front of a us post office filled with protestors in the rain
Overflow of protestors onto the other side of the street
Small town central PA. We are so back.
A top-down view of a display of hand-painted and sewn textile art in bright colours.
A low shot of a long display of memorial textile art in bright colours.
The UK AIDS quilt in the Tate Modern. Gosh. Overwhelming. It's the teddy bears, and the poems, and the little touches of entire lives.
Large truck stuck in traffic. Ad for local plastic company on the back. Mascot is a beagle wearing sunglasses named Jerry.
A break from your doomscrolling: I saw a magnificent truck today
Even more exciting publication news from our household:
lmao imagine getting this "thats you" ass letter in 1642
In Greece, MANY. In late medieval England none that I’ve come across (yet). Ex. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Yes! A chapter on wax ex-votos shaped like people and body parts… should be a really exciting volume!
Exciting news in the art-history-med-history space:
The image shows the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October 1996. This particular display, from October 11-13, 1996, was the last time the entire quilt was shown in its entirety, covering the vast expanse of the National Mall from the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol. It featured over 40,000 panels and drew approximately 1.2 million visitors.
AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.
the computer is causing an imbalance of yellow bile in many people
not now honey. mommy is defending her fascination in the anatolian neolithic site çatalhöyük against an online horde of göbeklitepe bros
sparing a moment for all the medieval warriors slain because they didn't stretch properly, pleading to god in the half second before getting their head stove in by ordo of mainz because at the critical moment they came up short with a yanged hammy
Barkley: Now, Magritte. I don't like him,
Shaq <wheezing>: is it a pipe or not Chuck
