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mary and the child jesus

in a book of prayers ("liber precum"), northern germany, 15th c.

source: Heidelberg, UB, Cod. Trübner 148, fol. 54v

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Skeletons dancing. Etching by R. Stamper after C. Sharp, 1700s

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Floor tiles from the North Berwick Nunnery, 12th century

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Medieval Gold Heart-shaped Brooch with sword clasp, c. 1400. 

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Medieval Armenian Gospel.

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my buddy told me winged beasts have been amassing in the hills recently and there's nothing anybody anywhere can do about it cause shit's already in motion

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if i was alive in medieval times you know id be up in that cloister obsessing over my ornate manuscript project……

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I keep thinking about this guy I saw in Dallas.

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The iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a knight and mercenary who lost his right arm in a siege [640×360]

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Day 27: Marie de France, poet and (maybe) abbess. Aside from her name and place of origin, her identity is unknown, though she was potentially a relative of King Henry II of England and/or an abbess. She adapted Breton narrative poems into French verse and translated Aesop’s Fables from Old English.

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Another of the skulls fused with a maille (chainmail) Coif recovered from the site of the battle of Visby, Gotland, ca. 1361.

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Some of my favourite requiem chasubles. We never see priests wearing anything like this anymore. Memento mori!

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TUDORWEEK2024 - DAY FIVE: Your Favourite Tudor Iconography

The Hours of Elizabeth The Queen

The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen has been described as the most lavish Book of Hours produced in fifteenth-century England. The text itself contains three sequences of Hours: the Hours of the Virgin and also the Hours of the Cross and of the Passion together with a number of other devotional texts.  The illustration is particularly lavish.  In addition to the full-page images before important textual divisions the book includes an astonishing 423 painted initials with narrative or decorative scenes.  The manuscript is known as the Hours of the Queen because of an inscription at the bottom of the pictured miniature of the Crucifixion: ‘Elisabeth the quene’.  This appears to be a signature of Elizabeth of York (d. 1503), daughter of Edward IV (1461-83) and wife of Henry VII (1485-1509).  However, the manuscript was not originally made for her. Later in the volume (f. 152) is a prayer for the soul of Cecily or Cicely (d. 1450), Duchess of Warwick, and it is likely that the book was made for a member of her family, possibly her father, the powerful Richard Neville (b. 1400, d. 1460), 5th Earl of Salisbury, the nephew of Henry IV (1399-1413).  Thus this magnificent book was deemed important enough to have been passed to important members of English aristocracy, in this case, ultimately the daughter, wife, and mother of successive kings of England. 

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Positive affirmations:

I deserve a halberd

I should be given a halberd

People want me to have a halberd

I can be trusted to own a halberd

I will be given a halberd one day

People will think my halberd is incredibly hot

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Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.