Medieval Sri Lankan nun Candramālī would love the #Artemis mission! Her teachings feature in དཔལ་ཟླ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ, The Tantra of the Garland of the Moon, which is part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. In fact, her Tibetan name was ཟླ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བ zla ba'i phreng ba, which means The Moon. 🌖
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What are you working on these days? What are you reading? Come chat with us at this month's online colloquium. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
An illustrated manuscript. The left page has embossed gold Hebrew letters an embossed golden rosette. They are on a quartered blue and white illustration. The right page has Hebrew text. Photo by Robert Emond.
#ManuscriptMonday
The Prato Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book created around 1300. At the Met Cloister taken on 6/26/16.
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#WestCoastKin #EastcoastKin
#BlueskyPhotography
#PhotographersUnited
A still from the short film Knights & Relationships, with a Riverside International Film Festival Official Selection laurel. Text explains that the film is playing on Saturday, April 11th at the Box Theater in Riverside.
KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS will be playing THIS SATURDAY at the Riverside International Film Festival at 5:05pm as part of Short Films Block One! Get your tickets here: www.riversidefilmfestival.org/24th-festival
#filmsky #fantasy #medievalsky
“It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself”
The Declaration of Arbroath, asserting Scotland’s independence, was signed #OTD, 6 April 1320
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unesco.org.uk/our-sites/me...
📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky!
📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week
📚 Book review by S. C. Thomson
📘The Cædmon Manuscript: The Beginnings of English Poetry, I.
✍️ Bernard J. Muir
📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41
📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Peasants vs. knights
At the Battle of Ane (1227), a rebel force lured heavily armored warriors into a swamp… and slaughtered them, killing a bishop and shattering feudal power in the region.
medievalarchives.com/2026/04/01/t...
#Medievalsky #History #OnThisDay #BattleOfAne #Medieval
as @goingmedieval.bsky.social says, "we don't have the luxury of despair."
there are some using the medieval world to do violence not just to the past but to people in the present. fight back with us.
watch this clip of me, Eleanor, and @lollardfish.bsky.social then find your allies #medievalsky
Database on vikings in Irish Chronicles AD 794-902 which was completed as part of my doctoral research (a looong time ago) www.celt.dias.ie/publications... #medievalsky #archaeology #spéirghorm
this week at the Facultad de Historia, Geografía y Ciencia Política de la UC / Santiago de Chile
“Things women owned: objects and patrimonial strategies in medieval Southern Italy”
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Left Academia dot edu a while back over their AI policy and now building momentum on Knowledge Commons. Please find free access to a range of my publications here: hcommons.org/members/clar... #medievalsky #history #archaeology #Ireland #scotland #vikings
An Early Medieval end of winter festive lunchmeal. Again I used @recipe.exchange to share my recipe.
#earlymedieval #medievalcook #medievalsky #carolingian #viking
Carved wooden feature at St Hilda's Church, dressed with greenery Sunlight streams through leaded glass, illuminating the richly detailed woodwork against the ancient stone wall.
All images courtesy of Petralovespurple CC BY-SA 2.0 #Medievalsky
"White Owl Irruption" by Pam Clements, on Forgotten Ground Regained
alliteration.net/poetry/white...
#alliterative #poetry #owl #poem #ecopoetry #alliterativeverse #poetrysky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #medievalsky
"The best medieval theologians never believed it was possible to expunge any of the deadly sins altogether. They knew that they were hard-wired, constituting the impulses that make us all human."
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www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky
Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh
Does anyone I know have the CD(s) of the full soundtrack to Ridley Scott's 'Kingdom of Heaven' close at hand? Someone who wouldn't mind checking something for me in the sleeve notes? If so I'd be much obliged.
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Probably because they were cleaning and cooking for Passover, the #Vatican only added 7 #Manuscripts this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
Includes 2 Ge'ez, a complaint about East heresy, Italian text on agriculture, and more!
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A bunny playing the drums in Book of Hours, Paris, ca. 1420-1425.
A bunny playing a horn-like instrument in Book of Hours, Paris, ca. 1420-1425.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate ! 🐰
Book of Hours, Paris, ca. 1420-1425.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia 🏺 #medievalsky #booksky #bunny #blueskybuns #rabbit
Annales Islandici 8 vols, five privately hard bound. Superb condition. Looking for £140 plus postage for this set #ísland #iceland #haskoli #history #medievalsky #booksky Bluesky messaging non functional but drop a message on the post if interested!
More on Wayland Smith and his penchant for revenge.
"Wayland's Revenge", by Ian Holt.
alliteration.net/poetry/waylands-revenge/
#volund #wayland #smith #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #viking #norse #poem #poetrysky #medievalsky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
Done is a battell on the dragon blak William Dunbar (c. 1460–1520) Done is a battell on the dragon blak, Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force; The ȝettis of hell ar brokin with a crak, The signe triumphall rasit is of the croce; The diuillis trymmillis with hiddous voce, The saulis ar borrowit and to the blis can go, Chryst with his blud our ransonis dois indoce: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro. Dungin is the deidly dragon Lucifer, The crewall serpent with the mortall stang; The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for us so lang, Thinking to grip us in his clowis strang; The mercifull lord wald nocht that it wer so. He maid him for to felȝe of that fang: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro. He for our saik that sufferit to be slane And lyk a lamb in sacrifice wes dicht, Is lyk a lyone rissin vp agane And as a gyane raxit him on hicht; Sprungin is Aurora radius and bricht, On loft is gone the glorius Appollo, The blisfull day departit fro the nycht: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.
The grit victour agane is rissin on hicht, That for our querrell to the deth wes woundit: The sone that wox all paill now schynis bricht, And, dirknes clerit, our fayth is now refoundit; The knell of mercy fra the hevin is soundit, The Cristin ar deliverit of thair wo, The Iowis and thair errour ar confoundit: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro. The fo is chasit, the battell is done ceis, The presone brokin, the jevellouris fleit and flemit; The weir is gon, confermit is the peis, The fetteris lowsit and the dungeoun temit; The ransoun maid, the presoneris redemit, The feild is win, ourcumin is the fo, Dispulit of the tresur that he ȝemit: Surrexit dominus de sepulchro.
Done is a battell on the dragon blak,
Our campioun Chryst confoundit hes his force;
The ȝettis of hell ar brokin with a crak,
The signe triumphall rasit is of the croce…
—William Dunbar, c.1460–1520. The #poem was most likely written when Dunbar was at James IV’s court
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Anyone using @kagi.com? The enshittification of Google is making research deep dives ever more rage-inducing. Potentially willing to pay for search if it's actually effective for my super niche, mostly academic with a side of Internet culture, needs
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Medieval floor tile depicting rabbit or hare
Happy #Easter Bluesky! Please enjoy this delightful bunny rabbit (or maybe a hare?) depicted on this early 14th century floor tile from Greyfriars Church in #Reading
📷 me
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An IMC Team member stood at the Informations and Payments Desk showing the Programme Book to delegates who are in colourful medieval dress.
The IMC Office is still closed for the UK Easter Break 🙂
We will be back at our desks on Wednesday 08 April 2026, ready to answer any queries which may have come into the imc@leeds.ac.uk inbox during our time away 😃
We hope people are having a lovely UK Bank Holiday Monday 🙂
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There's no vengeance like making a goblet from the skull of our enemy's child.
"Volund's Revenge", by Rahul Gupta
alliteration.net/poetry/volunds-revenge/
#volund #wayland #smith #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #viking #norse #poem #poetrysky #medievalsky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
"Unmoved", an Anglo-Saxon style riddle by Donald Mace Willams on Forgotten Ground Regained
alliteration.net/poetry/unmoved/ #alliterative #poetry #alliterativeverse #riddle #poetrysky #medievalsky #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
