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Scott Manning
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Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024).

Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him

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Fortunate to meet Donato Giancola this last weekend at the IX sci-fi/fantasy art show in Reading. He graciously signed my Lord of the Rings book.
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
As a teenager I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail in daily 30-min chunks over and over until I memorized every line. Today I’ve had an essay on the 13th-century Queste del saint Graal accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal.
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
58 pages wow
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am now the northeast pennsylvania distributor for staples
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
okay staples did not disappoint on the staple supply
August 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My fountain pens match Helen Slater’s wetsuit on The Legend of Billie Jean
August 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
commute reading
🪐 📚 🛸
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I need an honest assessment. Are these stamps creepy?
August 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I was chillin outside and this little guy walked right up to me. He was startled when I talked to him, but he didn’t scamper off. We’ve left carrots for him.
July 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is the second snapping turtle I’ve helped across the road in as many weeks.
July 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
mrw my friend asks me to read their essay and not hold back
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Arthurian images at the Morgan Library from the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit. Lancelot and Guinevere, and Vivien and Merlin.

Albumen silver print, 1874
June 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I encountered a ferocious beast near my house. Barely escaped with my life.
June 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Anna Hyatt Huntington’s Joan of Arc bronze statue is still standing tall and proud in NYC 🗽. It is now 110 years old.

📷 mine
June 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This is the proper text to footnote ratio. Some may disagree but they would be wrong.
June 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In a hallway that connects Terminal A East and West at the Philly International Airport, there is a series of giant black and white photos of the city. Among them is Emmanuel Frémiet’s Joan of Arc equestrian statue.
June 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Joan of Arc stands sentinel with banner after the yard has had a mow
June 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
new joan of arc book just dropped
June 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I chromed the base of my Matrix stand and I’m quite happy with the results. #transformers
May 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Finishing up the last of my #MaytheFourth greetings this year. #starwars
April 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
me: I don’t need anymore books I have more than I’ll ever read

also me leaving a used bookstore:
April 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
if i visit your house and there’s a dying gaul, i am striking this pose. you have been warned.
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Temptation of Saint Hilarion by Dominique Louis-Féréol Papety, 1843-3

Oil on mahogany panel, 19.9x25.4” w/o frame

The Wallace Collection

📷 mine
March 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I never wanted an ultron cookie jar until I saw his disembodied head at a flea market. this could be an actual piece in the mcu. like, maybe tony stark doesn’t even like cookies but he wants to make a show of his conquered foe.
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
my bro found his karate kid bookmark that my mom gave him back in the 80s
March 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM