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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 17h

The door to the Stanbury Chapel at Hereford Cathedral. The chapel is the resting place of John Stanbury, Bishop of Hereford from 1453 - 1474. Image courtesy @tbryce1485.bsky.social For #AdoorableThursday

A wooden door with an unusual wrought iron top third, allowing one to peer inside the chapel.

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 20h

Don't forget today's (Thursday) seminar at 4pm! #medievalsky #skystorians

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Another #NewAcq incunable (permanent loan) 📚💙 📜

Morticellarium aureum ('The golden undertaker'), a manual to contemplate a Christian death, printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1488. EHC 913035.

Not sure the guy in the fancy hat is ready to contemplate anything.

Title page of the book, with a woodcut of a monk in a hood showing a guy in a fancy hat that death (a grinning skeleton with a scyte) is already in his house. Details of the black-and-white woodcut are coloured in with red.

The woodcut printer's mark of Gerard Leeu, showing a fantasy representation of the City of Antwerp. Details of the black-and-white image are coloured in red and yellow.

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 1d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

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SCMedievalist @scmedievalist.bsky.social · 2d

Child 1 has a marketing project about restaurants and needs 300 survey responses. She can't earn higher than 70% if she doesn't reach the target. Seems unfair - some kids just don't have as many friends/family! Could you take 2 min to take the survey? Due in 2 days and she needs 100 more. Thanks!

Restaurant Survey

In one of my classes at school we are creating a restaurant as part of a marketing plan. The purpose of this survey is to gather data on what is popular in the community. The survey helps determine wh...

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 3d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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KRad @kradmacher.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! There’s one more chance to join us live in Toronto this Wednesday.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 3d

More details here: www.canadianmedievalists.org/The-CSM-Onli...

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London Society for Medieval Studies @londonmedieval.bsky.social · 4d

Hello to our new followers! We are the LSMS: PGR & ECR-led since 1970, championing ✂️-edge research across the fields of medieval studies & the critical & creative possibilities of interdisciplinary work & learning

Our seminars are always free & open to all, register here 👉 bit.ly/londonmedieval

A blue term card with a manuscript banner at the top. It lists the times & dates of seminars for the winter term - includes link to register for them bit.ly/londonmedieval

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 6d

A new year has begun for the Richard III Society of Canada aka the Canadian Branch. But it isn't too late to join! See www.richardiii.ca/general-memb... for details

General Membership Information and monthly meetings – Richard III Society of Canada

www.richardiii.ca

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 7d

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘Ludlow Castle’ (Readers Digest magazine)
Artist: SR Badmin

Finally detailed mixed media illustration of a view looking down into the Severn Valley and up towards Ludlow Castle, surrounded by autumn trees

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 8d

We are looking forward to our AGM on Saturday, 2 days after the start of the Society's new year. Oct 2nd is, of course, Richard III's birthday.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 8d

Image from The Book of Hours of Adélaïde de Savoie (Musée Condé 76, fol. 10v), c. 1460-1465

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 8d

One of October's Labour of the Month was harvesting fruit. This lovely image deserves to be seen in full, especially for the woman shimmying up the tree.

A full page from a medieval manuscript. On either side of the text are tall trees with people visibly picking fruit high up among the leaves. One woman is somehow pulling herself up the straight trunk. The fruit, apples perhaps, appear to be tossed down to the labourers below who are putting them in baskets. One woman has her hand in front of her face. Either she is eating or she has been hit on the nose with some fruit as it came down from the tree.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 9d

Blue Jays all the way!

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 9d

But all in person, right? We are used to not be able to party afterwards but hearing the talks would be nice. (Picture forlorn face here)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10d

PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.

All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30
17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30
17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 13d

It was a fascinating talk. Thank you!

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 13d

What an absolute joy to present the computational and codicological #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been compiling for nearly a year! Many thanks to the U. Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me. For those of you who missed it, I'll post the video link when it's available!

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 13d

This will undoubtedly be wonderful. Hooray for the PLS.

KRad @kradmacher.bsky.social · 14d

We’ve got a FREE travelling production launching this weekend as part of the Oxford Renaissance Festival.
Then we’ll be performing in various venues in Toronto for the month of October. Can’t join us in person? We’re doing a special Zoom performance on October 4 at 2 pm ET. 🔗 premodernity.net/strong

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 14d

The earliest book in the update is a little English 12thc Rule of St. Benedict. It’s wee but has lovely initials! One of its sister manuscripts in Toronto includes a bit of the life of Cuthbert on a flyleaf, hinting at northern origins. www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/rul...

“On big screwups” this practical text begins in a black script on white parchment, with a green I decorated with a fan-shaped descender highlighted with red

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 14d

New address for the BL Digitised Manuscripts *BLOG* as of 30 Sept.; archive of older posts to be available later at the new site.
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

I hope they actually mean it about making the archive available.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 15d

These two miscreants didn't renew their membership in the Richard III Society by October 2. Luckily for the rest of us, there's still time! See www.richardiii.ca/general-memb... on how to join the Cdn Branch.
Image: Ms. Ludwig XIII 6, leaf 12 (83.MP.149.12.recto)

Image from a manuscript. Two men in chains kneel in front of a woman who is surrounded by courtiers. She wears an elaborate late 15th C outfit.

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 16d

Alt text for the Tiles - a photograph of 3-4 rows of tiles coming down to a corner and continuing to the right. Grass can be seen on the right so it is clearly outside.

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