I know is hosting Arthurian legends today, and I can't help but bust out my collection of medieval art that makes no sense.

I present: "Back in my day, having a headache MEANT something."

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Did People in the Middle Ages Bathe? Medieval people were cleaner than you think! 🛀🏻🧼 A great piece by in our latest issue. Read about it here: https://t.co/u2AyQ5Ywev

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get wonderful and fun Knight Owl by for yourselves and all the kids in your lives! "Owl was assigned to the Knight Night Watch. He was very good at his job."

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"People that enjoy the woodlands will find solace at the descriptions of locations, as well the natural world we were once better attuned with."

https://t.co/vQmj5Dp0ru

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https://t.co/J4BM2LW9iM
POISONED CHALICE. Mabel de Belleme was never a sweet girl. When her father kills her mother, she remains his most loyal companion. Later, she learns the arts of death as she claims lands & castles.

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For Friday, here are three different depictions of David and his harp from some of our medieval psalters (i.e. books containing the Book of Psalms).

(Photos: MS 131, fol. 7r, MS 196, fol. 7r, MS 204, fol. 14r)



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Yahoo I've been working on papers for my Institute soOo~

Concept-based illustrations:
Determination/resilience/empowerment

Inspo Song: Believer - Imagine Dragons



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A cheval sur Jean de Daillon, seigneur de Laude ou Lude (1413-1481), gouverneur du Dauphiné
tapisserie par le maître artisan Guillaume Desremaulx
https://t.co/FhkChS1MHS

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“Thou ominous and fearful owl of death”

Henry VI Part 1 (Act 4, Scene 2)
🦉

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Thread: emojis as medieval images. (CW: violence and dicks ahead)

(Please suggest more medieval emojis if you think of any!)

(BL, MS Royal 6 E VI, f. 16v)

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I got to draw lots of medieval imagery for my latest comic for the . It brought me back to visiting with some friends. As my cousin once said: "Medieval Vibes Only."

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A hell mouth for your collection 🔥👿

Psalter
England, Oxford, between 1212 and 1220
MS M.43 fol. 23v

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Wrestling, 1467.

Published in the fencing manual written by German fencing master Hans Talhoffer (1420-1490).

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In his letters, 8th-century missionary (and apparent fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) St. Boniface keeps sending people towels as presents.

One letter: "I am sending also a cloak, and a towel to dry the feet."

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Colorful, depressed geese.

(Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 602, f. 65v)

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A great new article is now out: 's "Propping the Tree of Charity: Allegory and Salvation History in Piers Plowman".

If you want to think about how medieval writers used trees to think about things, this is the article!

https://t.co/JVQrfBBNBa

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