# medievaltwitter manuscripts medieval medievalart medievalmonday fontcovers manga webcomic anime comic schildmaid darkfantasy artistontwitter arthistory renaissance academictwitter academicchatter mondaymonster

My 7yo is learning all about the Vikings at school and he loved the idea of a squirrel running up and down the World Tree. I’ve now taught him “Yggdrasil” and “Ratatoskr” and we’re having fun looking for relevant illustrations. Here are a few! 🌳 🐿

7 74
2020-11-27

William Holman Hunt (of Pre-Raphaelite fame), Bushey Church Interior (1815-20) watercolor. As you can see, the Jacobean box pews are no longer there. Restored and extended 1871 by Sir G.Gilbert Scott w/1897 additions.
https://t.co/gJaiTpkWF5

2 13
2020-11-19

🍂Welcome, 🍁November🍁, and bring to all of us peaceful and healthy days.🍂
(Book of Hours from Rohan, National Library CZ VI D 25) https://t.co/W1XOA4QnFN…

2 2
2020-11-02

Whenever I introduce my students to relics, I love to ref Egeria (when someone bites the True Cross in Jerusalem), Hugh of Lincoln (who bit off the finger of Mary Magdalene), & share this from Maurice Sendak – 'he saw, he loved it, he ate it'

12 36
2020-10-29

Stoke Pero Parish Church, Exmoor once had a font cover as evidenced by a 1837 watercolor by Rev. James Bulwer. Perhaps it was a late-medieval survival?
https://t.co/UGl5K2Pn4s

2 13
2020-10-19

Every so often, a medieval illustrator decides that the Red Sea that Moses parted must *literally* be red.

(BL, MS Royal 19 D III f. 50; Morgan Lib, MSS m140, f. 044r, m43, f. 013r, m322, f. 063r)

14 102
2020-09-26

Fabulous illustrations of natural history by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600)-- seriously gorgeous
https://t.co/O3u68yRBHe

25 68
2020-09-12

Update WIP: Thought I'd show you some progress on the two pieces I'm working on 😍❤️

Would you rather be a Knight or a Royal? (vote below!)

1 4
2020-09-11

Andrea di Bonaiuto’s lively c1360s frescoes in Sta Maria Novella (Florence) are Dominican vision of the Church Triumphant, w/a contemporary pilgrim (nice badges!), a portrait of Averroes, and a view of the Duomo (before Brunelleschi)

12 27
2020-09-10

A wonderful historiated initial Q depicting St. Michael slaying the dragon 🐲🗡✨ illuminated psalter from Southern Germany (diocese of Constance or Augsburg), c. 1240-60
.
Learn more about this manuscript on our website here: https://t.co/ipyQhDZ6I2

2 19
2020-09-01

Thanks for a great week, everyone! I'm going back to my regular account ( ). My thanks to and for letting me host this week. Here's a master thread of my threads from the week.

14 67
2020-08-30

Interior of St. Etienne du Mont
1864 by Émile-Antoine-François Herson. Those staircases--sigh (1530-1535). 😍🥰
https://t.co/7PtqD40x3N

1 3
2020-08-19

Spent hours looking at 19th- c watercolors. Fascinating/depressing. Some 17th-c covers survive, but changed: St Margaret's Church, Cley (💕the 1852 blue), while others are just the same: Enford (1865/today), both Norfolk.

3 12
2020-08-18

The most identifiable animal from medieval bestiaries is the asp, which supposedly would block out snake charmers' magic by putting one ear against the ground & sticking its tail in the other ear.

Big antisocial mood.

(BL, MS Harley 3244, f. 61v)

33 180
2020-07-31

1 And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

2 And she said "Is he....you know....?"

(BL, MS Royal 19 B XV, f. 20v)

4 31
2020-07-30