My redating of the Stettin inquisitions got assigned to an issue of the Church History journal! Still open access, of course!

#MedievaSky

book cover for How Genre Governs Creation in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas by Yoav Tirosh. In the cover image there is burned wood, and the name of the publisher palgrave macmillan. Above the title there is the series name: The New Middle Ages.

📚📚📚 I realize that I haven't made it official here on BlueSky: Here's a link to my new book on genre:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If you have an academic or public library where you can recommend books for purchase, please consider mine! 📚📚📚

#medieval #medievasky

man wounding unicorn attracted by (virgin) woman

man wounding unicorn attracted by (virgin) woman

man wounding unicorn attracted by (virgin) woman

the attraction of the unicorn by the (virgin) woman, and the following wounding of the unicorn

Caza de Unicornios/Unicorn Hunting: despite being a symbol of purity and grace, several art is dedicated to its hunt, probably to get its horn, a virgin woman as a bait #unicorn #unicornio #medievasky #bestiary #bestiario #mythologicalanimals #unicornhunting #virginwoman #medievalhunt #medievalsky

tortuga volando con aves turtle flying with birds

king locusts reyes langostas

mujer y minotauro woman and minotaur

satyr satiro

Clockwise: a turtle flying with birds, some locusts with the aparent title of kings (!), a woman apparently taming or subduing a minotaur, a satyr #medievasky #medievalart #medieval #bestiary #bestiario #turtles #birds #locust #kinglocust #minotaur #satyr

happy and with looong horn

hunt of an unicorn, virgin woman to the right

woman with unicorn as companion

a virgin atracting the unicorn and a man stabbing it

Unicornio/Unicorn: una de las bestias mitológicas más conocidas hoy, cuyo horn had healing powers and made water save to drink. Despite being symbol of purity and grace, several art depicts its entrampment, only posible to do for a virgin woman #unicorn #unicornio #medievasky #bestiary #bestiario

An immersive week with a well-to-do medieval household. If that's an astrolabe hanging on the wall near where the piper played, it might indicate that this was a merchant family.

Very nicely done. #medievasky #livinghistory

Couverture du livre. Un guerrier médiévalisant à cheval

Compte rendu | Eugene Smelyansky, "Medievalisms and Russia. The Contest for Imaginary Pasts"
✍️ Par Justine Breton (@bretonjustine.bsky.social ; @sama-ur1132.bsky.social)
🔗 journals.openedition.org/frontieres/3...
🏰 #MedievaSky #Medievalism

Bring back Wiggo #medievasky #oathbreakers

Yes, for sure! If I had to pick a favourite, it might be the Aberdeen #Bestiary, created around 1200 & once owned by Henry VIII. That's some provenance! 🙂 #medievasky
www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms2...