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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Mar 13

can't talk, shopping for hildegard of bingen soup

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · 1d

heard someone say this year has felt like being awake during a surgery and they’re not wrong

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Sep 2

(final summer holiday adventure outing at @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social today)

medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Sep 2

a very happy back to school week for all parents who celebrate 🎉

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Jul 30

important discovery

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Jun 27

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · Jun 7

“I made the logo of Christians!”

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Jun 5

Manicule in the wild, Orrs Island, ME

A placard with a pointing fist atop a wooden post directs extra attention to a roadside sign reading “SPEED LIMIT 30”

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Jun 1

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland
Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · May 13

It’s the driest spring on record here in the UK.
Just a little reminder to please leave a couple of water trays out in your garden for the birds and little critters. They really, really need it right now. 🐦‍⬛🪲🐭

PLEASE SHARE TO GET THE WORD OUT THERE.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · May 24

That should do the trick.

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 24

“You’re literally eating the flesh and drinking the blood of God during the Eucharist. It doesn’t get much more erotic than that.” -Sufjan Stevens

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · May 22

Local bookstore advertising limited edition Thomas Mann Playmobil figure, holding a book that shows a page from Buddenbrooks. I have to order this, right?

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 18

“And why don’t we like Henry VIII?” “He’s a baddie!” “And?” “And he devolved the monasteries!” Close enough :’)

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 18

another *proud parenting moment* from the not-quite five year old- [child scrutinizes bookshelf] “WE HAVE A BOOK ABOUT HENRY VIII!”

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 10

Living Crafts Festival at Hatfield Park never disappoints

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 9

Augustinian pope AND alchemy? what’s next? McDonald’s rolls out a perpetual stew?

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 9

LEAD INTO GOLD LEAD INTO GOLD this has been an exhausting week for medievalists

www.home.cern/news/news/ph...

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Transforming the...

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medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 8

I have never been more proud

medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com · May 8

My husband asked our 5 year old if they knew anything about Christianity (prepping pope talks obv). “Sure, I’m learning about that in school. And mama told me that they use a special color for the dress of baby Jesus’s mother.”
!!!!!!!!!!!! parenting win.