They want a small state. Small enough to fit in a curator's office.

Maybe Melion will be human but turn into Rowlf when he's a werewolf.

Aww, that sounds really fun! Which Muppet is going to be Melion?

Melion and the Muppets sounds great. Is this some artwork they're doing?

A very exciting day coming up at the Barbican!

Based on where it ends, it's from at least 1447. A descent of the dukes of Lancaster, earls of Northumberland and Arundel, and barons of Beaumont and Bergavenny. It was collected by Thomas Astle but no idea where he got it from. He seems to have collected MSS from all over the place.

Ooh, sounds interesting. Will keep an eye out for the article. Here was genealogical roll: bsky.app/profile/rory...

Is that their rewriting of Edmund Crouchback? One of the Lancastrian genealogical rolls in the BL's Campbell Charters has a depiction of him with a disability.

Thanks! Will be interesting to see how the film portrays it

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social can nuns even perform exorcisms? I thought you had to be ordained?

Movie poster for Speed Demon

Alan Partridge on his dictaphone

"Aboard a high-speed train, a Nun who lost her faith must perform her first Exorcism on a possessed passenger hellbent on crashing the runaway train."

Medieval Jewish London History Day | Barbican This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter.

On 10 May I'll be one of the speakers at this event at the Barbican, talking about the persecution of London's medieval Jews and their defence of the Tower of London from siege in 1267: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #medievalsky

Manuscript illumination of a man dropping his trousers

A man drops his trousers beneath the text of Magna Carta #medievalsky

If you join the Temu Templars, you get a copy of their 'Templar oath', the wording of which is almost directly lifted from the knight's oath in Kingdom of Heaven, a film which portrays the Templars as fools and fanatics. The irony appears to have been lost on them.

On the pronunciation of ‘Outremer’: ‘It is up to the reader whether to read it as a French compound, with an ’Allo ’Allo accent, or to completely Anglicise it to ‘Outreamer’. That would probably be closer to the pronunciation used by the English men-at-arms who fought so bravely, so far from home, under Richard the Lionheart and Edward Longshanks. Many of them made it back to England, so there is a fair chance that their blood courses through your veins; you may feel that their opinion counts for something.’ - Pilgrims of the Sword, p. 19.

They've published several books, including an 'Official History' of the Templars. Blut und Boden with dad jokes.

Jim Dowson (far-right) and Nick Griffin (farther-right) dress in 'Templar' costumes. Griffin looks faintly embarrassed.

Here are both of them looking silly in their 'Templar' uniforms in Prague, 2016. For Nick Griffin and roadkill: metro.co.uk/2013/01/30/b... For his run-in with marmite: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_poli...

This 'Templar' group is the creation of Jim Dowson (co-founder of Britain First), who cosplays as a priest in a mock-medieval chapel in Ireland. Other members include Nick Griffin (ex-BNP leader, roadkill enthusiast, and nemesis of Marmite).

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Amazing treasures of medieval legal history to distract one briefly from current news and marking - the Catslechta ˙ (or Cat-sections) - an old Irish legal text on cats (the Senchas Már) which even sets out various categories of cats based on various characteristics or talents.
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He also refused to make the customary post-election bribe, sorry, 'gift', to his electors. Medieval politics could be just as stupid as today's, which is sort of reassuring?

If we did get a new antipope out of this, it still wouldn't be as stupid as the Western Schism, which divided Europe for four decades and started, in part, because the newly-elected Pope wanted his cardinals to cut down their food bills to just one course at each meal

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Happy Easter Sister And unto you sister How goeth the Easter Egg Hunt? Poorly Sister Indeed Sister? The Penguins, having found the Eggs, refuse to Collect them They are instead playing the Easter Egg Long Term Incubation Game (Penguins sit on eggs & stare into distance)

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And it looks like three different jobs combined in one, for a lower salary than a London postdoc

Found a copy of my book on the Hospitallers at the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Now signed!

A very distressed lion

This poor lion looks like a toddler that's just been denied an ice cream. St Bavo's church, Haarlem.

One of the burnt Cotton Manuscripts

A Wild Haggis in all its glory

Excited to preview an upcoming article where multi-spectral imaging of a manuscript almost destroyed by fire 300 years ago has uncovered the first medieval description of the Wild Haggis: wp.ufpel.edu.br/poiema/wild-... #medievalsky