#medieval age

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck and Daisy Duck with their kids as Medieval Royal Family - Quack Pack AU - Duckverse in History - Medieval Festival and medieval outfits

Now some historical topics, namely the Duckverse (Donald Duck universe) in the past. I drew this as inspiration from the Quack Pack series from the episode "Leader of the Quack" in which Donald became the king of Quaintinia (a fictional country stuck in the middle ages). What I have drawn is my imaginary ending, but in a medieval period where Donald and Daisy are taken as king and queen, and their children are with them (Donald's nephews and Daisy's nieces as princes and princesses). And behind them are the knight Gyro Gearloose (taken inspiration from the Ducktales 1987 episode "Sir Gyro de Gearloose"), Archbishop Scrooge, Nelly the Dragon and the jester Fethry. And all this in a medieval atmosphere. I hope you like this idea and this drawing and you like the Middle Ages. And yes, this will be part of my Duckverse in History. And it is not allowed to use the versions I did without my permission. Also, i listened to this while i was drawing.

Also, this is my present for my friend @boingodigitalart, as my belated present for his birthday, plus thanks for inspiring me to draw this, but even better.

Yes, if you like this drawing, feel free to like and reblog this!

[al-mayurqa]

Una "Auïda’’ (tañedora de cuerdas) en el Libro de los Juegos. S.XIII.

[jagzii]

"History is relative to the people reading, writing, and examining it. How we view Eleanor of Aquitaine will continue to transform as we transform. But regardless of how our perspective changes, the fact that Eleanor was Aquitaine’s most beloved and respected ruler for almost a century does not change. No matter her status as Queen of France or England, her duchy remained her priority. Her commitment to her land and people is worthy of admiration– as is she."

Read the rest here:

[ree-chrono]

There is the grave in river

Which people made for monster

So unaware person

Would never seen it closely

The boy who wasn’t lucky

Just stepped into the water

Immortal awful creature

Dragged him to river’s bottom

He payed with eye that creature

Tear out with rotten fingers

He thought it was the ending

But it was the beginning

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so this is how my vampire’s story started. his name was Gilochka which you can translate as “Brunch” from Ukrainian. he was a nice folk who was born in 9th century in some small drevlians’ village

[ladymoony-art]

The soldier

I did the Soldier, Poet and King quizz and got the soldier

To be honest yes, always fighting, tired of it, wanting peace for once and not knowing if I'm capable of anything other than violence

So I made this OC, still don't know how to name it, but I already love them

[th3purplemoon]

Dragons - how to make two common characters interesting

I have two knights in the world from the medieval age. Quite a common picture, isn´t it? So, what can I do to divide them from any other knight´s story? #stortelling #dragons #twoknights #fantasy

I have two knights in the world from the medieval age. Quite a common picture, isn´t it? So, what can I do to divide them from any other knight´s story? Domination characteristic is a good step forward. Men could react similarly, but one feature is enough. I took from the other side and made them two sides of the same coin. If one is calm and focused, the other is temperament and wild. It´s a…

[eshpur]

✣ Medieval Miku ✣

[sevengardens]

[thetalkingcow]

Medieval Scooby

[sixteenseveredhands]

Child's Writing Exercises and Doodles, from Egypt, c. 1000-1200 CE: this was made by a child who was practicing Hebrew, creating doodles and scribbles on the page as they worked

This writing fragment is nearly 1,000 years old, and it was made by a child who lived in Egypt during the Middle Ages. Several letters of the Hebrew alphabet are written on the page, probably as part of a writing exercise, but the child apparently got a little bored/distracted, as they also left a drawing of a camel (or possibly a person), a doodle that resembles a menorah, and an assortment of other scribbles on the page.

This is the work of a Jewish child from Fustat (Old Cairo), and it was preserved in the collection known as the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts. As the University of Cambridge Library explains:

For a thousand years, the Jewish community of Fustat placed their worn-out books and other writings in a storeroom (genizah) of the Ben Ezra Synagogue ... According to rabbinic law, once a holy book can no longer be used (because it is too old, or because its text is no longer relevant) it cannot be destroyed or casually discarded: texts containing the name of God should be buried or, if burial is not possible, placed in a genizah.

At least from the early 11th century, the Jews of Fustat ... reverently placed their old texts in the Genizah. Remarkably, however, they placed not only the expected religious works, such as Bibles, prayer books and compendia of Jewish law, but also what we would regard as secular works and everyday documents: shopping lists, marriage contracts, divorce deeds, pages from Arabic fables, works of Sufi and Shi'ite philosophy, medical books, magical amulets, business letters and accounts, and hundreds of letters: examples of practically every kind of written text produced by the Jewish communities of the Near East can now be found in the Genizah Collection, and it presents an unparalleled insight into the medieval Jewish world.

Sources & More Info:

Cambridge Digital Library: Writing Exercises with Child's Drawings

Cambridge Digital Library: More About the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts

[illustratus]

[memories-of-ancients]

Pendants uncovered near Kent, Anglo-Saxon England, 7th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[jade-eclipse-lithium]

Camelot’s carrot puffs were extraordinary.

Oh no it’s made of some beings’ flesh again.

Last time your muffin has someone’s eye in it!

Absolute stunning.

[braywright]

The Crusades by Zoé Oldenbourg: Informative, but Exhausting

The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg is a 1966 nonfiction text about the Medieval crusades. And given how beaten up the book was when I first got it and the kind of book store I found it at, I assume this copy was from one of the first couple of printings. I picked it up mostly because my history classes never talked about the crusades. My teachers often hopped directly from the fall of Rome to rise of the Mongols. I figured with my love of history and reading habits, this is would a quick and easy way to learn about the crusades.

I was very wrong.

I bought this book and started reading it in my freshman year of college. I finally finished it two months after graduating college. Let me phrase that a different way. It took me over three years to finish reading this book. Not because the book is incredibly long (though it does manage to squeeze 700 pages in the size of a regular thriller novel) but because it was such a slog to get through.

The prose was detailed but incredibly dry at times. Most of the characters had the same or similar names, which made it nearly impossible to skim through. The writing style also assumes that you have some prior knowledge about the geography of Europe and the Middle East. It will just list place after place after place, accompanied only occasionally by small, blurry, black-and-white maps. The author did include family trees at the back, but they are upside down and awkwardly structured. And given the complex political situation at the time, this made it all very hard to follow who was in control of what area at what time. (Also, the index is completely wrong).

I did enjoy some aspects of reading this book. But they were few and far between. In general, I would advise readers to pick up a modern book or find a documentary crusades. They would likely be easier to follow, or at least more interesting. I will hold onto this book, but only because it is cool to own a book this old, not because I am planning to re-read it.

⭐⭐⭐ 3/10

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[lionofchaeronea]

Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864