She stopped responding to her husband when he said something stupid, but now he thinks she’s deaf… #MedievalSky
Posts by Caroline of Kalamazoo
God creates Eve in an idyllic Garden of Eden full of colourful birds and animals.
“The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. ” Jonathan Larson
(Walters Art Museum, MS W.805, f. 6v)
#medievalSky #creation #illumination
medievalists will cease to be relevant when the world graduates from the problems of the Middle Ages…
Quot exempla moralia adhuc opus sunt, ut intellegamus quid viris albis (qui dicuntur) in America concedamus? #Arnold #Bundy #Columbus #Dahmer #Epstein #Forrest #Gotti #Hoover #Icahn #Jackson #Kissinger #Lee #McCarthy #Nixon #Oswald #Petraeus #QAnon #Rumsfeld #Sackler
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Two men on horseback converse as they lead a mail-clad cavalry
“semper auscultant!”
“si modo linguam secretam haberemus…” #medievalists #medievalSky #medieval #classicists #classicalSky #classical #classic #class #ass
A knight in all his finery astride a pink horse
#GOALS
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part iiii
#medievalSky #fashion #sashay #slay aka Hartmann von Aue in the Codex Manesse (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, f. 184v)
A person behind a wall gestures with finger-like candles or candle-like fingers to another so adorned.
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part i 💅
#medievalSky #fashion #passion
(Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rh. hist. 33b, f. 50v)
Two dancing ladies and a musician are joined by a tall knight. The knight’s helm is crested with a statant swan, like the charge of his shield and surcoat.
🪩 Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. 🪩
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part iii 👸
#medievalSky #fashion aka Hiltbolt von Schwangau 🦢 in the Codex Manesse (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, f. 146r) 🦢
St Jerome enters chapel wearing a lovely blue maxi dress.
Mix it up! Don’t stay in your lane!!
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part ii 👘
#medievalSky #fashion #passion #art #fart #illumination #enumeration
(Les Belles Heures de Jean, duc de Berry 🫐 f. 184v)
check this out... cadw.gov.wales/about-us/new...
(I went to visit a couple weeks ago and it's great!)
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ditto!!!
can you expand on that, please?
@krheyam.bsky.social Do go see this if you have the opportunity! I do wholeheartedly recommend it 💕
www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/whats-on/bor...
the first Earl of March
we like it! 👏
Swinney didn’t just speak.—he drew a line: Scotland is on the road to independence, and there’s no turning back
#Scotland #ScottishIndependenceASAP #ScottishIndependence
Eleanor de Clare & husband
@marcmorris.bsky.social Are those Playmobil Normans on your profile banner?? (Hugh wanted me to ask you)
archiepiscopa habemus! #medievalSky #linguaLatina #Latin #history #church #sisterhood
archiepiscopa habemus! #medievalSky #linguaLatina #Latin #history #church #sisterhood
King Edward, Malleus Scotorum
“I am such a big fan of Welsh castles!”
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
Never change, England
An illuminated text glimmers
Dic mihi hunc librum ✨magicum✨ non esse.
from les Belles Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry 🍓 by the Limbourg Bros. at the National Gallery (Siena exhibition)
#medievalSky #medieval #art #book #magic #light #illumination
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Sic semper tyrannis.
An illustrated map of the old world with Jerusalem at the centre.
Mappa Mundi from Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon #mapMonday #medievalSky (BL Royal MS 14 C IX, fs. 1v & 2r)