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@jshelat1 The entire internet will rally around to destroy anything that dares upset you.
Academia makes Jay cry?? It must be destroyed.
This thread is silly, but I think there's a serious point to be made about the representation of queer desire in Gemini images and other places where the convention of representations made it "ok" to depict homoeroticism.
(Morgan Lib., MS m1053, f. 005v)
A *lot* of medieval Gemini images are just two naked dudes blatantly staring at each other's dicks.
(BnF, MS Latin 12834, f. 49; Morgan Lib, MS m92, f. 017r; Morgan Lib, MS g14, f. 007v)
When a dragon puts the moves on you in the club: a story in two acts.
(Morgan Library, MS M459, f. 005r) #MedievalTwitter
The later French authors decided that Charlemagne's nameless sin was incest. The *German* authors decided it was necrophilia with the body of his wife. They agreed that the great king must have been enchanted by the devil.
(Avignon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 136, f. 343v)
Thread: On the 12th day of Christmas, the Middle Ages gave to meeeee
Twelve sinners sizzling!
(Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, MS III B 10, f. 47r) #MedievalTwitter
I love how medieval depictions of God resting on the seventh day varied from Him sitting there quietly to full-on napping.
(BL, MS Egerton 1894, f. 1v; Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 270b, f. 005v) #MedievalTwitter
How to Have Sex in the 600s: A very NSFW #MedievalTwitter Thread.
Archbishop Theodore gave many judgments on what sexual acts were appropriate (and not) in the late 600s in England. So...how *was* it appropriate to have sex?
(Lyon, BM, MS 5128, f. 100r)
Everybody agreed that the gender reveal party was a disaster.
(Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ. 144, f. 338r) #medievaltwitter
Happy Halloween and a #MedievalTwitter thread of some great medieval monsters you might try dressing up as this year!
First, the blemyae, who have no heads and who have faces in their chests! It's recommended you wear more clothes than these two, though.
(BL, MS Harley 3954)