Now playing - David Munrow Introduces and Performs Mediaeval and Renaissance Music.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Now playing - David Munrow Introduces and Performs Mediaeval and Renaissance Music.
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#OTD 1491 Anne, the last independent duchess of Brittany bit.ly/2ErZhzP was forced to submit to the French, obliged to marry Charles VIII & then Louis XII. Anne was a great patron of arts & her Book of Hours is one of the last great mediaeval illuminated manuscripts.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#OTD 1491 Anne, the last independent duchess of Brittany bit.ly/2ErZhzP was forced to submit to the French, obliged to marry Charles VIII & then Louis XII. Anne was a great patron of arts & her Book of Hours is one of the last great mediaeval illuminated manuscripts.
haere.bsky.social Haere - accuses me of being a "patronising scold". Not so much slander really as just Mediaeval levels of sexism. He (you know it) deserves a go in a metal bridle rather than legal action.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
haere.bsky.social Haere - accuses me of being a "patronising scold". Not so much slander really as just Mediaeval levels of sexism. He (you know it) deserves a go in a metal bridle rather than legal action.
idk I always found it easiest to explain with I have the code/software, but not the hardware to run it ???? I know what an apple looks like I'm not a mediaeval painter 😭 """how r u a colourblind artist with aphantasia""" idk god had to nerf me bc it knew I'd be too powerful otherwise haha
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
idk I always found it easiest to explain with I have the code/software, but not the hardware to run it ???? I know what an apple looks like I'm not a mediaeval painter 😭 """how r u a colourblind artist with aphantasia""" idk god had to nerf me bc it knew I'd be too powerful otherwise haha
Absolutely. (had to look it up). There was a mediaeval thing, Swan stuffed with duck, stuffed with chicken, stuffed with quail. Sort of Russian meat doll.
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Absolutely. (had to look it up). There was a mediaeval thing, Swan stuffed with duck, stuffed with chicken, stuffed with quail. Sort of Russian meat doll.
It's a mediaeval anachronism, as I say. The monarch is just a symbolic puppet... funded by the taxpayer. Should have been abolished long ago.
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It's a mediaeval anachronism, as I say. The monarch is just a symbolic puppet... funded by the taxpayer. Should have been abolished long ago.
It has rained all day. I took post-surgery cat for a checkup at the vet. (She’s doing ok.) I cleaned & cleared things & did the usefuls.
I finished 2 crochet dishcloths, crocheted a tree decoration, progressed granny square jumper no.1, & dedigned 2 crochet motifs.
Mediaeval music & firelight now🔥
I finished 2 crochet dishcloths, crocheted a tree decoration, progressed granny square jumper no.1, & dedigned 2 crochet motifs.
Mediaeval music & firelight now🔥
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It has rained all day. I took post-surgery cat for a checkup at the vet. (She’s doing ok.) I cleaned & cleared things & did the usefuls.
I finished 2 crochet dishcloths, crocheted a tree decoration, progressed granny square jumper no.1, & dedigned 2 crochet motifs.
Mediaeval music & firelight now🔥
I finished 2 crochet dishcloths, crocheted a tree decoration, progressed granny square jumper no.1, & dedigned 2 crochet motifs.
Mediaeval music & firelight now🔥
I read it when it came out. Liked the cover art, but thought it just far too 'Californian hippie', dragging in refs to Atlantis, & using modern Wicca for her depiction of pre-Christian religion; also trying to fit characters from the mediæval French romances into post-Roman setting.
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I read it when it came out. Liked the cover art, but thought it just far too 'Californian hippie', dragging in refs to Atlantis, & using modern Wicca for her depiction of pre-Christian religion; also trying to fit characters from the mediæval French romances into post-Roman setting.
Perhaps a representative from the Church of England might like to accompany me on a tour of mediaeval ecclesiastical buildings in their ownership so that I can point out the thousands of images of actual demons which they seem to have forgotten...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Perhaps a representative from the Church of England might like to accompany me on a tour of mediaeval ecclesiastical buildings in their ownership so that I can point out the thousands of images of actual demons which they seem to have forgotten...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life”
Conveniently ignoring the Black Death, Dark Ages, mediaeval life, 1665, WWI, WWII, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Conveniently ignoring the Black Death, Dark Ages, mediaeval life, 1665, WWI, WWII, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life”
Conveniently ignoring the Black Death, Dark Ages, mediaeval life, 1665, WWI, WWII, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Conveniently ignoring the Black Death, Dark Ages, mediaeval life, 1665, WWI, WWII, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Mediaeval Christians would probably have been a-ok with depictions of the devil: they used to be all over churches. I've even seen one where a minor devil was wearing spectacles.
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Mediaeval Christians would probably have been a-ok with depictions of the devil: they used to be all over churches. I've even seen one where a minor devil was wearing spectacles.
It's ridiculous right! No Kings they chant but allow this mediaeval manifestation!
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It's ridiculous right! No Kings they chant but allow this mediaeval manifestation!
I went to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social exhibition Expecting: Birth, Belief & Protection to see their rare mediaeval birth scroll!! 📜 I explain the history, context. & magical powers of birth scrolls in my latest post: blackthornandstone.com/2025/11/13/g...
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I went to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social exhibition Expecting: Birth, Belief & Protection to see their rare mediaeval birth scroll!! 📜 I explain the history, context. & magical powers of birth scrolls in my latest post: blackthornandstone.com/2025/11/13/g...
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Reading your book Domination (highly recommended!) I am struck by the parallel between the Roman collegia as described on pp 248-9 and the Guilds and Companies found in mediaeval England. I'm a member of the York Guild of Scriveners, so I've learned a little about them.
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social Reading your book Domination (highly recommended!) I am struck by the parallel between the Roman collegia as described on pp 248-9 and the Guilds and Companies found in mediaeval England. I'm a member of the York Guild of Scriveners, so I've learned a little about them.
Lilith a hostage of Heaven ( in the mediaeval sense)?
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Lilith a hostage of Heaven ( in the mediaeval sense)?
only if it has a ceremonial head of state chosen by mediaeval capitalist-wizard guilds
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
only if it has a ceremonial head of state chosen by mediaeval capitalist-wizard guilds
The difficulty here in #Normandy is that timber, like stone, is/was routinely reused. We say that a roof structure may consist of, or contain, C15th timbers although we know the walls that support it are C16th. My own late mediaeval hall is dating and phasing nightmare for these sorts of reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The difficulty here in #Normandy is that timber, like stone, is/was routinely reused. We say that a roof structure may consist of, or contain, C15th timbers although we know the walls that support it are C16th. My own late mediaeval hall is dating and phasing nightmare for these sorts of reasons.
Yes: and the Mediæval Languages went with Modern Languages.
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Yes: and the Mediæval Languages went with Modern Languages.
An antidote to real life, with added early-mediaeval violence. And potatoes.
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
An antidote to real life, with added early-mediaeval violence. And potatoes.
Hell yeah! New mediaeval podcast just dropped.
Many are saying: 'Hell yeah - new medieval podcast just dropped.'
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hell yeah! New mediaeval podcast just dropped.
The only reason Europe isn't covered in collapsed mediaeval cathedrals is that they reused the stone for the next attempt at getting one to stay up. 😈
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The only reason Europe isn't covered in collapsed mediaeval cathedrals is that they reused the stone for the next attempt at getting one to stay up. 😈
Oop
Mr mediaeval podcast guy, it's more Stalin and CHIANG KAI SHEK for ww2 lmao
Mr mediaeval podcast guy, it's more Stalin and CHIANG KAI SHEK for ww2 lmao
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Oop
Mr mediaeval podcast guy, it's more Stalin and CHIANG KAI SHEK for ww2 lmao
Mr mediaeval podcast guy, it's more Stalin and CHIANG KAI SHEK for ww2 lmao
[Comical torture]
I hope that whoever decided that it should be fashionable for beds to have footboards that poke above the mattress was doomed to some form of mediaeval torture whereby they were put in a human-sized box with a bottom on a screw which was slowly and inexorably turned in order […]
I hope that whoever decided that it should be fashionable for beds to have footboards that poke above the mattress was doomed to some form of mediaeval torture whereby they were put in a human-sized box with a bottom on a screw which was slowly and inexorably turned in order […]
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
[Comical torture]
I hope that whoever decided that it should be fashionable for beds to have footboards that poke above the mattress was doomed to some form of mediaeval torture whereby they were put in a human-sized box with a bottom on a screw which was slowly and inexorably turned in order […]
I hope that whoever decided that it should be fashionable for beds to have footboards that poke above the mattress was doomed to some form of mediaeval torture whereby they were put in a human-sized box with a bottom on a screw which was slowly and inexorably turned in order […]
I thought for a moment that Versace were doing mediæval floors…
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I thought for a moment that Versace were doing mediæval floors…
Well, as I say, they keep dipping themselves in local rivers, they'll be shitting themselves inside-out, just like early mediaeval knights on crusade, and possibly dying of dysentery. Still, all in a good cause, eh?
(Daft c*nts!)
(Daft c*nts!)
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Well, as I say, they keep dipping themselves in local rivers, they'll be shitting themselves inside-out, just like early mediaeval knights on crusade, and possibly dying of dysentery. Still, all in a good cause, eh?
(Daft c*nts!)
(Daft c*nts!)