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**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 15h

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Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

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#medieval #MedievalArt

**GetMusic - Free Bandcamp Codes** @GetMusic@mastodon.social · 22h

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The Leaden Circle - Stone of Communion

"Four compositions to enhance occult experiences and aid in communing with the beyond,."

https://getmusic.fm/l/eOi1QR

#darkambient #dungeonsynth #fantasy

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**Martin Rundkvist** @mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 1d

Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist@archaeo.social

Here's a similar figure with better-preserved enamel from Thisted municipality in North Jutland. It was reported by a detectorist in 2019. Note how both saints hold their right hand on the upper abdomen in a pious gesture.

https://www.metaldetektorfund.dk/ny/fund/?dimeid=44932

#archaeology #medieval

**Martin Rundkvist** @mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 1d *

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist@archaeo.social

This saint figure is from a 13th century Limoges casket, an imported devotional object testifying to the wealth of Tune on Gotland at the time. Discovered during our fieldwork one week ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoges_enamel

#archaeology #medieval

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 1d

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Running bunny. Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, BM, ms. 107, fol. 8r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**Dr Helen Wilson** @NellytheWillow@mastodon.social · 2d

Dr Helen Wilson @NellytheWillow@mastodon.social

British Museum ~ Citole c. 1300-30

Having seen this famous English medieval instrument before, it was still a surprise to look more closely and see a dragon with green eyes forming part of its rich decoration on the peg box. Absolutely superb carving!

A detail of a sitole - a medieval stringed instrument made of wood. Within the rich and complex carving there is a dragon-like creature bending round to 'eat' the end of the piece of wood bearing the pegs to tune the instrument.

#BritishMuseum #Medieval #Woodcarving

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**Khurram Wadee** @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk · 2d

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

According to #Wikipedia, the #TarrSteps are form of construction called a #ClapperBridge and were originally built in #Medieval times but these are not the original stones as they have been damages and swept away several times in their history during storms and rebuilt, luckily in the same manner.

Looking along the Tarr Steps from the north bank.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 2d

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Saint Margaret and the #Dragon. Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, Jean Bourdichon, Tours or Paris 1503-1508. BnF, Latin 9474, fol. 205v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**Dr Helen Wilson** @NellytheWillow@mastodon.social · 3d

Dr Helen Wilson @NellytheWillow@mastodon.social

St Clether Well & Chapel, Cornwall

Built in C15 and restored by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1897. Water from the well runs in a channel through the chapel under the altar and exits on the opposite side.

'In this remote setting... chapel and well-house evoke perhaps more powerfully than anywhere in Cornwall a sense of the medieval religious landscape' (Beacham & Pevsner)

A side view of the well-house with narrow slated roof and low walls to the front. On the right is the north wall of the chapel with an arched window. The area around both are luxuriant with greenery.

A view of the west side of the chapel with the entrance doorway and a mullioned window above. The south side is plain, apart from a small opening at ground level at the far end for the water from the well to exit the chapel.

#Cornwall #Medieval #Architecture

**EH Lupton** @pretensesoup@romancelandia.club · 3d

EH Lupton @pretensesoup@romancelandia.club

New episode of #AskAMedievalist up this morning: http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/19/episode-91-the-field-where-i-grow-my-ducks/

Part two of our look at #medieval memes. Get it wherever fine #podcasts are downloaded.

askamedievalist.comEpisode 91: The Field Where I Grow My Ducks – Ask a Medievalist

#histodon #Medievaldon

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 3d

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Hammertime (Jael and Sisera). Biblia porta, France c. 1290. Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 76v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**AaronM** @aaronm@mastodon.cc · 3d

AaronM @aaronm@mastodon.cc

Probably due to Passover cooking, the #Vatican only digitized 27 #Manuscripts this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025/week16.html
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
@medievodons @bookhistodons #Medieval #Medievodons

f.1r from Vat.lat.11487. A page of humanist text, in a single column, with four lines of Roman capitols as title, in several colors. There is a large white vine initial M to start the text, and more white-vines around the arms at the bottom. There are gold dot borders on the top and sides

A page in german script from f.1r of Vat.lat.11144. There are several paragraphs in german, each with some figures depicted to the left of them, including the Bishop, Dean, some Nuns and the townsfolk attending a hanging

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 4d

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Hey pig, go back! it’s a trap! Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris 1447. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 157v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · 5d

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Monkey hugging a kitten. gradual, Valenciennes 16th century. Douai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 109, fol. 1r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**PatriciaPhotos** @PatriciaPhotos@photog.social · 6d

**Niamh Bernadette (They/Them)** @NotAHopeInHades@pixelfed.social · 6d

Niamh Bernadette (They/Them) @NotAHopeInHades@pixelfed.social

Panoramic / Panoramico

This was taken from the church of San Michele in Bosco looking out over Bologna. The tower you can see there is the Asinelli tower - it was built sometime between 1109-1119.
Other important information about this area is that I saw a bat and it was very cute.

#photography #amateurphotography #architecture #tower #cityscape #bologna #church #view #panorama #italy #italia #travel #clouds #sky #urban #city #urbanphotography #medieval #blackandwhite #monochrome #style #europe #chiesa #edificio #torre #citta #nuvole #blackandwhitephotography #middleages

#middleages

**Mark H** @neonbubble@mstdn.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Mark H @neonbubble@mstdn.social

For #MeerMittwoch here's a view of #Portsmouth from the sea, showing the historic waterfront with the Round Tower and Hot Walls to the right then the Spinnaker Tower and HMS Warrior to the left beyond Spice Island. Taken from the paddle steamer Waverley in 2022.

A mostly overcast day although some blue peeks through the thinner sheets of cloud in the sky, but it feels fairly warm. We're on the sea and with a small bit of wake present to the bottom right on the calm, green-blue water's surface we can tell we're at the aft of boat heading away from the land we're looking back at. That land is low-lying with a shallow beach on the right backed up by medieval stone fortifications around ten metres high with a couple of slightly larger towers on them, the leftmost of which is very round. The shoreline then becomes a wall of boulders for flood and erosion protection from the sea and this continues left almost fully before disappearing back on itself behind the spit of land here. An eclectic range of townhouses line the shore there, some up to five storeys in height. In the distance to the left there is a tall tower in white with a sharp spire and glass-fronted viewing areas high up. It bulges out with a skeletal white framework that represents billowing sails. Leftmost of all in the distance we can see masts rising up from an old sailing ship that's docked.

#SeaWednesday #Photography #History

**Medieval Illumination** @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Medieval Illumination @medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social

Animals on parade. Bartholomeus Anglicus, ‘Livre des propriétés des choses’ (‘De proprietatibus rerum’, French translation of Jean Corbechon), France ca. 1480-1490. Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 703, fol. 230r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

**Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág** @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social · Apr 16

Apr 16

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social

Today on #WomensEpics: The Nítíða Saga

14th-century Icelandic "knight saga" about a sorceress-queen named Nítíða. Several men try to conquer her, but she defeats all unwanted suitors with magic or sheer force.

Eventually, a prince from India disguises himself to court her. They spend a winter together and Nítíða grows to love him. In the end, she tells him to remove his disguise: she'd known who he was all along.

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/04/n-is-for-nitia-saga-womens-epcis-to-z.html