She stopped responding to her husband when he said something stupid, but now he thinks she’s deaf… #MedievalSky

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…

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery “Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”

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

nymag.com/nymetro/news...

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?

Born with Teeth | London West End Play | Wyndham’s Theatre Book Born With Teeth tickets in London’s West End - starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel. Now playing at Wyndham’s Theatre until 1 Nov 2025.

@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!”

#medievalsky

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)