Fine additions to my collection! Not pictured is the magnet from the cheese museum, which I suspect fell out of my bag and is still stuck to the inside of a locker in the Louvre...
#France #Travel
And that was France. You know what? I kinda like it.
He's also clearly wearing a mail shirt under his robes.
A rectangular stone tower with arched windows.
A ceiling decorated with trailing vines and leaves
A medieval hall, the Duke sits at one end
The Duke of Burgundy is his fine robes and hat.
One final historic building before heading for home. The tower of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. Built as his personal safe house in Paris during the bitter civil war between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in the 15th century.
#Medieval #History #France
🎵They took all the cheese
And put 'em in a cheese museum
And they charged the people
Three Euros to seem 'em🎵
Maison du Brie de Meaux, a small but perfectly formed museum of Brie cheese, showing how it was made, aged and sold. Plus cheese shaped hats!
#Cheese #History #France
I found it! I found the Greek cup showing Pasiphae holding the baby minotaur with a "the fuck is this?!" expression!
#GreekMythology #History #Museum
Historic church 6 : Basillica of Saint-Denis. Resting place of almost all the kings of France & filled with effigies. Their bodies were formally dug up and desecrated during the French Revolution but reburied on the orders of the restored Louis XVIII.
#France #History #Medieval
Historic church 5 : Church of Saint-Denys de la Chapelle, Paris. Joan of Arc stayed here the night before attempting to besiege English held Paris during the Hundred Years War. Next door is a later church dedicated to Joan herself following WW1.
#Medieval #History #France
Basilica of Saint-Seurin part 2.
Historic church 4 of ?: Basillica of Saint-Seurin, just outside what would have been the city walls and modified throughout the middle ages, with beautiful 15th century statues and misericords. For centuries Roland's oliphant was kept here after the battle of Roncevaux.
#Medievalsky #France #Travel
The museum of Aquitaine. I may be some time...
Museum 1 of ?: Musée du Vin et du Négoce de Bordeaux (Museum of Wine and Wine Merchants), housed in a cellar of an early 18th century merchants house where he stored his products. Covers the history of the wine trade in Bordeaux.
#Medieval #History #France #Travel
Historic church 3 of ? : Notre Dame de Bordeaux. 17th century baroque covered in statues and stained glass.
#France #Travel
Historic church 2 of ? : Saint-Pierre, Bordeaux. Built in the 14th-15th centuries as part of the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela, it is beautifully decorated with statues of angels and Saint James.
#Medievalsky #France #Travel
Adventure time!
An amateurishly shaded pencil drawing of a very fluffy and creepy looking cat with a dark face and ears, light fur, and very wide eyes.
Armour, archers, and ambition ⚔️🏰 Dive into the Hundred Years’ War and the clash that reshaped medieval Europe. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/hund... #MedievalWarfare
A truly remarkable man. There's an amazing documentary about him on YouTube featuring interviews with him and people who knew him.
youtu.be/c1JJqOXdg1A?...
Facebook has reminded me it's been 2 years since I was in Crete "walking the ground" in the snow to find the spot where secret agent and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted in and the cave where he hid while organising the kidnap of the islands German commandant.
#WW2 #History #Travel ✈️🗺️
A foster kitten visiting the amazing “Paws on Parchment” exhibition which tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world
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#medievalsky
Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[hu... #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM
It was great speaking to @mattlewishistory.bsky.social about my book on the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and their part in everything from the earliest witch trials to the Wars of the Roses #medievalsky
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A photo of one page of the manuscript (fol. 43v), which has illustrations of various scenes from the story. For me the point of the photo was not the scenes themselves, but the overall effect of the page, which is very intricately and elaborately decorated, with a lot of gold, elaborate patterns and borders, etc. The manuscript is lit so that the gold in particular catches your eye.
A photo of the manuscript open to the previous page (fol. 43v) and the page to the right of it (fol. 44r), which contains text of the story, as well as more illustrations bordering the text. The overall effect (to me) is very intricate and impressive.
A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].
New Medieval Books: Joan of Arc: The Life of a French Cultural Icon, by Deborah McGrady published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/01/new-... #JoanofArc #medievalbooks
Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra
Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mos...
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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
