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Episode 17: Kathryn Maude on politics, the queen as evangelist, and the 11th century Encomium Emmae reginae
British Library Add MS 33241, fol. 1v
In Episode 17 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey chat with Kathryn Maude about the 11th century Queen Emma, who was married to and had children with both the English king Æthelred the Unready and his successor the Danish king Cnut the Great. The resulting political situation was complicated, and the Encomium Emmae reginae can help us understand the lines that Emma was attempting to walk as her sons grew into adulthood and prepared to take the throne. The text survives in two copies, the earliest one of which is British Library Add MS 33241, believed to be the copy that was presented to Queen Emma herself. Kathryn walks us through the manuscript and we talk about both the politics and the materiality of this fascinating text.
Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Below the cut are more photos and links relevant to the conversation.
British Library Add MS 33241, aka Encomium Emmae reginae (digitized online)
Folio 1v, the presentation of the book to Queen Emma, with her sons peeking out from the margin.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on Emma and her sons.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on the scribe presenting the book. Note that his hands are covered with a cloth. The son's hand has been added.
A close-up of folio 1v focusing on the curtains
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11, miniature of Saint John, folio 107r
Close-up of folio 107r focusing on the curtains. Note Saint John holding the book with a cloth around it.
Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, Acc. 2011/5, aka Courtenay Compendium, which contains the late 14th century copy of the Encomium Emmae reginae (apparently not digitized)
Doors of Durin, drawn by JRR Tolkien.
The Doors of Durin (Gates of Moria) from the Fellowship of the Ring film by Peter Jackson
Middle Aged Women in the Middle Ages, edited by Sue Niebrzydowski. Gender in the Middle Ages, Volume 7. D. S. Brewer, 2011.
Folio 18r, Sven and Cnut's names are capitalized Half Uncials while the rest of the text is a regular Carolingian script.
Folio 48r, another example. Here Emma's name is capitalized at the top.
A king pointing to the text on folio 46r - "a manicule with a king attached" - with a note written beneath in the later middle ages, probably at Saint Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.
An ugly manicule (hand pointing at the text), folio 46v.
Folio 5r, a gloss in the margin.
Folio 60r, an emoji in the margin of a couple of eyes to annotate the word oculi (Latin for eyes) in the text.
Close-up of the eyes.
Folio 58v, the parchment has been mended during the parchment preparation process, before the text was written.
Folio 54r, space was left for initials that were never added (the penciled M is probably contemporary but was never decorated)
Folio 2r, the first page of text, featuring a zoomorphic initial (i.e., an initial in the shape of an animal, in this case some sort of dragon and a fish eating each other) and colorful capitals.
Folio 8r, a zoomorphic initial R made of more critters eating each other. Good for a tattoo?
Folio 19v. "Explicit Lib[er] I" means the end of book 1, and "Incipit Secundus" means the beginning of [book] two (the second book).
Folio 50v, featuring Lindsey's ugly manicule
A close-up of the manicule
The Annunciation of Mary in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 11
We talked to Brandon Hawk about the Vercelli Manuscript in Episode 7.
A hedgehog in the Luttrell Psalter (folio 19v)! (See it online)
"The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf: A New Context" Dot's very first published article!
#medieval#manuscript#queen emma#medieval art#art history#early england#latin#parchment#book history#rare books#inside my favorite manuscript#podcast#imfmpod
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The barquentine "Maid of England" with broken mast and covered in ice coming into Halifax Harbour in 1923.
Photo: W.R. MacAskill
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started watching Death Note yesterday and have come to the conclusion that if Hamlet had access to a death note, literally nothing in the play would change or happen differently in the slightest
#and not just because he wouldn’t use it because of the heaven/hell rule#if Laertes had it it’s likely that either Claudius would die a lot quicker or that Claudius would convince him to wait and think about it#in which case again nothing changes#if Claudius had it early on then Hamlet would have died on the boat to England#but it’s also likely that Claudius would have relied on the boat working without the note and not used it#in which case he only would have used it to ensure victory in the final battle i feel and nothing changes again#hamlet#hamletposting#shakespeare#death note#classic lit memes
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been hyperfixated on Cthulhu media and accidentally created an entire au/story about it
Dr. Arthur James Kirkland is a professor of archaeology who is assigned to help excavate a recently discovered cave with strange artifacts strewn about, but most notably an old yet entirely intact book. It's written in an unknown language, resulting in a globe spanning investigation to discover an origin and translation. after a few months of studying the book, though, he slowly becomes consumed by it. it speaks to him, showing him strange visions and eventually granting him the secrets locked in it, translating the text before his eyes. slowly, he loses track of reality and slips into the madness that radiates from the dark grimoire, almost fully consuming him.
I based it mostly off of the ttrpg mechanic-wise while using the mythos as a backdrop for everything else. currently, the other investigators are surface-level ocs who have their own place in the story alongside him.
idk I just think it's neat and I need somewhere to put my shit so here-
#art tag#aph#hws#hetalia#aph england#hws england#cthulhu au#I love my exhausted old basket case#my little cursed pookie#still undecided on an exact time period but it's somewhere around late 1800s early 1900s per a doodle my bf did of my au < 3
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✧ dave england, jeff tremaine, bam margera, johnny knoxville, and chris pontius ✧
#viva la axe#. ★ axel ★ .#dave england#jeff tremaine#bam margera#johnny knoxville#chris pontius#party boy#jackass#mtv jackass#viva la bam#2000s#early 2000s
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Time Travel Question : Murder and Disappearance Edition I
Given that Judge Crater, Roanoke, and the Dyatlov Pass Incident are credibly solved, though not 100% provable, I'm leaving them out in favor of things ,ore mysterious. I almost left out Amelia Earhart, but the evidence there is sketchier.
Some people were a little confused. Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury are the Princes in the Tower.
#Time Travel#Famous Murders#Jack the Ripper#La Bete du Gevaudan#Gandillon Family#Werewolves#William Rufus#King William II#Edward V#Richard of Shrewsbury#French History#English History#Early Modern Europe#Victorian England#Lord Darnley#Mary Queen of Scots#Scottish History#Amy Robsart#Lord Dudley#The Sodder Children#The Somerton Man#Australian History#Prime Minister Harold Holt#Elizabeth Short#The Black Dahlia
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Yet another family wedding took place later that year, in June — of George, Duke of York, to Princess Mary (May) of Teck. Alix did not attend, pleading the need of the Hesse family to be careful with money, but the Russian imperial family had no such concerns and Nicky was sent to represent them, staying at Marlborough House in London. The Prince of Wales, "Uncle Bertie" (whose wife, Princess Alexandra, was Nicky's mother's sister), seems to have taken a rather dim view of his nephew's customary attire, arranging for him to be visited by "a whole bevy of tailors, shoemakers and hatters." "He is very funny in that respect," commented Nicky, "but he has always been extremely attentive and kind to me." Nicky in his turn seems to have been unimpressed by the physical qualities of British women, lamenting the lack of attractive specimens at a state ball at Buckingham Palace. On the next day the party set off for Windsor to visit the Queen — "a round ball on unsteady legs" — as Nicky described her in his diary. Mercifully unaware of such remarks, she presented him with the Order of the Garter. Throughout this stay attention was constantly being drawn to the physical similarity between Nicky and his cousin "Georgie" — "l am getting quite tired of hearing the same thing all the time," Nicky protested. He greatly enjoyed this visit, however, and was sad to leave.
Alix and Nicky | Virginia Rounding
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@usukweek
Day 3: Early morning // Historical AU
Who wouldn't be waking up with a smile on your face when you're waking up to someone you want to be with forever every morning?
#hetalia#usukweek#day 3#prompt: early morning#usuk#ukus#aph england#aph america#hws america#hws england#alfred f jones#arthur kirkland#hetalia world stars#hello fellow astronomers
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"Jane Morris, posed by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti"
Photographed by John R. Parsons, 1865, London.
#jane morris#1860s#old photos#women#mine#dante gabriel rossetti#london#19th century#victorian#pre raphaelite#pre raphaelism#art#antique#victorian era#nineteenth century#victorian photography#19th century photography#history#photography#early photography#old photography#vintage#london england
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And I saw another beast come up out of the earth...and he spake as a dragon. (Revelation 13:11)
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The Coronation of His Majesty King Bastian I - The Hour of Wolves
When he was born he was a small thing. A screaming infant, a second son, destined perhaps for military greatness, but never dukedom. Never inheritance. Never conquest.
But at the inception of the light, the birth of the world, the moment between silence and splendor when The Glory breathed across the scope of creation: he was no small thing then.
Even then, he was coming.
His rise runs with blood: knives in the back, poison, betrayal, kidnapping and vengeance.
His rise burns with greatness: glory, family, rescue, love and ferocity.
The secret world recognized him before he knew himself. A fairy witch marked his passing and offered her slender wrist for his talons. A dead sun opens its mouth for him, a vanished Christ is his counterpart, a death knight worships before him, a raven-haired little girl holds the hand of her doting and beloved father.
The world we know calls him king of France, the monarch of a seized throne, a general who has promised the great lords England on its knees.
The Devil, in his own tongue, may call him son. The Glory has said nothing.
Would you know him if you saw him? Would you recognize what he is?
Bow, while you consider, and kiss his ring. There is a crown of flame upon his brow.
#MY SHITTY LITTLE GUY IS KING OF FRANCE BABY#local worst man you have ever met receives ancient crown of charlemagne in a coup with the help of his previously-despised elder brother#god help every last person who stands in his way#he made sure the warring princes locked in civil war were Dealt With (one dead one ~conveniently misplaced~) and stood in paris#before every lord in france with the burgundian army behind him and basically dared them to tell him no#he's a big money no whammies guy so he's promised them england's total surrender within fifteen years#or he'll abdicate#he's here for a legendary time AND a long time#if he can pull this off#(lisbet has received a boon and vision from the sunflower king and invented cannon several decades early so)#(london may be in the hands of the french sooner than we think)#(but then as many would-be conquerors find - you then have the horrors of northern england to deal with)#godspeed you lunatic#I have literally never been more pleased and proud of a fictional creation of mine in my life#he's come so far and also aria and I have made something really incredible#stay tuned friends#he's only going to get worse#heretic
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The wooden walls of England, by Patrick O’Brien (1960-)
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Capitalism shure will make you feel guilty about wanting to work on a later schedule than 8 to 5
#I want to work 12 to 9 or something like that#I never took a class in college earlier than 10#and I didn’t mind classes that lasted until 8pm#besides walking back to my dorms in New England winter weather#but that’s the climate not school#idk#i’ve been treading on this thought for a while and finally got to verbalize it to someone#which made me realize#yeah#I would rather work late than torture myself by getting up early#G muses
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Extremely late but I had to draw something for his birthday this year </3
#I imagined this happening to Arthur#it was funnier in my head tbh#hetalia#hws england#aph england#Drawing birthday art for England always brings me bad luck#this year was the emergency alert test and then getting horribly sick the very next day#the alert for me was a minute early i nearly shat my pants#my art
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✫・゚*.2004・゚✫*.
#2004#flickr#digital archiving#digitalmemoriez#2000s nostalgia#nostalgic#image archiving#nostlagia#alt fashion#alt#goth#goth club#early 2000s#2000s#alternative fashion#england#people
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one google search and my "arthur brought the plague to england" hc/joke went to the gutter
#malevolent#malevolent podcast#arthur malevolent#arthur lester#arthur lester malevolent#you know what?#he did#its france-england (frangland if you will)#so who cares if we are a century early?#different timeline babBBYYYYYYY
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Time Travel Question 46: Early Modernish and Earlier
These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.
This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.
In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).
Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.
#Time Travel#Early Modern#Aztecs#Tenochtitlan#Versailles#Louis XIV#Thames Frost Fair#The Original Amber Room#Vauxhall Gardens#Potlatch#Indigenous History#Pacific Northwest History#The Amazon#South American History#North American History#Cascadia Earthquake#History of Food#Queen Elizabeth I#Tudor England#Kamehameha the Great#Hawaiʻi#Hawaiian History
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