#medieval history

[connor-c-art]

As I approach the end of my undergraduate degree in archaeology, I wanted to make a small thank you gift for my dissertation supervisor. She specialises in the early medieval period and is a big cat fan so I found a funky image from a Medieval Manuscript and embroidered a version of it for her!

The original image (final image!) is from the Peterborough Bestiary, produced in Peterborough, England during the early 14th century and now housed at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (MS 53, fol. 197v).

[chainmail-butch]

I started reading Roland Betancourt's Byzantine Intersectionality because it has a chapter on transwomen, but it turns out that the book is heavily focused on transmasculinity and race in the Byzantine world.

Specifically I wanted to show you this discussion on artistic representation of top surgery and the likelihood that this actually represents top surgery.

Anyway this is really fucking cool

[eethok]

really just an excuse to draw medieval kyubey

[newhistorybooks]

Urban Women presents a different and lesser-known image of the late Middle Ages, from 1250 to 1550. The authors trace the lives of women protesting, marrying, making love, working, and engaging in the daily life of Low Countries towns. In doing so, this book gives voice to wealthy businesswomen, laborers, religious women, criminals, and sex workers, spotlighting the remarkable figures who shaped a "women's town" within a man's world.

[city-of-ladies]

"As far as we know, Ende was a Spanish illustrator who lived in the late 10th century and is regarded as the first female European artist to be recorded. She spent a portion of her life at San Salvador de Tábara Monastery in Tábara, Kingdom of León in Medieval Spain. According to the research of John Williams, one of the most eminent experts in Spanish medieval art, Ende may not have been a nun but rather belonged to a group of noble women from León who, during those years, rejected both convent life and instead managed their wealth and in a sense decided to go their way.

The Tabara scriptorium, which generated some of the Spanish Middle Ages’ most significant codices, was a cultural lighthouse at the time. Ende felt tremendously at ease working and living at Tábara Monastery, according to her illuminated manuscripts. Above all, it brought Ende closer to the dominant cultural movement of the day, recognizing the need to preserve sacred passages and everlasting images, working for her faith and herself."

[neonelven]

Gauntlets owned by Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)

[qqueenofhades]

[the-orphic-youth]

Medieval heart-shaped music book, circa 1460-1477.

National library of France.

[peashooter85]

Carolingian sword uncovered in Dendermonde, Belgium, dated 750-850 AD

from the Royal Military Museum, Brussels

[anim-ttrpgs]

Lots of pop culture fiction about the Middle Ages likes to tackle the concept of witch trials (even though that didn't even become a thing until the mid-1400s and didn't hit the stride we think of it with today until the 1600s) in one of three ways:

"actually they were really witches with magic powers! (Bad)"

"actually they were really witches with magic powers! (Good)"

"they weren't witches at all they were smart women of science more sophisticated and advanced than those STUPID inbred people could comprehend so they killed them because they thought that medicine was evil"

no they were just weird people. How do you treat weird people?

[rosieandthemoon]

[moxrglory]

“i desire violently—and i wait”- Anaïs Nin

[eethok]

gadzooks! my game? It be'eth changed!

[baebeylik]

Sword Hilt with Design of Lion Heads, Arabesque Scrollwork, and Arabic Inscription. Hamadan, Iran. 13th Century CE.

Saint Louis Art Museum.

[qqueenofhades]

I think we need to bring whatever the hell was going on at 17th-century conclaves back. Who's with me.