(doesn't have to be with this image but feel free to use it or any other one on my page if you like!) should be made by you though and make sure to have dms on!

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who wants a bluesky invite code?! reply with your best original medieval meme and I'll dm a few codes to the posters of the best ones!

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they're doing home renovations

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source: british library add ms 36684, fol. 61v bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu

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snails going up a ladder, france, 13th century

a medieval drawing of three large and poorly drawn snails on a ladder

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fox and bird are friends, france, 15th century

a medieval drawing of a fox in a red hood patting a rooster on the head in front of some tall flowers

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irl weird medieval guy

@NationalGallery

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"it's whatever"

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e-codices.unifr.ch/en/fmb/cb-0049

me and the girl i pulled by being a little bit goofy

A medieval greyscale drawing of a queen embracing a cow with a goofy smile on its face

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(i know you can google translate latin but it is very inaccurate)

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do any of u sexy people speak latin? what does "si potucus" (?) mean ?

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ignore this post to tell your followers that you are normal sized

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Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 262r,

This precious volume was obviously highly prized by its owner, the French-born King of Navarre, who had his coat of arms painted on no less than twenty folios. Rather than directly commissioning this

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share this post to tell your followers that you are just a littel creechure

a medieval drawing of a creature that looks like a pig with a human face and a unicorn horn protruding from its forehead

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and i just saw like 15 goslings sleeping in the grass together in a big pile and im still trying to process it. in case anyone was wondering where im at mentally rn

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oh no, france, 13th century

a medieval drawing showing a decapitated body lying on a bed. over the body stands a man who has his arms thrown out and a sad expression on his face.

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plus “for the benefit of all the people forever” is a great tagline. i have never been to cleveland and i can't say i have plans to but.... i certainly respect the fine people at

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also, i love how the

scans are so high res you can see every detail and brushstroke and bit of texture.....v cool

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i need a food historian to tell me whether graters would have been a common kitchen implement in the middle ages (or is she doing something else?)

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source: the hours of charles the noble, cleveland museum of art clevelandart.org/art/1964.40.97

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who else up eatin they gruel

a medieval drawing of a man sitting on the floor eating from a bowl with his hands

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muslim vikings? makes me think of this onion article

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here's an article that talks about the ring and some of the slightly more contentious clothes!

smithsonianmag.com

Did Vikings Bury Their Dead in Clothing Bearing the Arabic Word for "Allah"?

While contact between Vikings and Muslim cultures is well documented, the interpretation of the 10th-century burial cloth has been called into question

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a medieval viking era ring inscribed with the words ‘for allah’, found in a 1200 year old grave in sweden. the ring is part of a small body of evidence of direct contact between the vikings and the abbasid caliphate!

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im doing it im making weird medieval magnet poetry....:watch this space

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source: bnf, français 12399, fol. 99r

gallica.bnf.fr

Consulter le document sur Gallica

« Livre du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio, qui parle des deduis et de pestilence ». @GallicaBnF

sooooo.........how's everyone doing

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sad fool taking a nap on the ground, france, 14th century

a medieval drawing of a man wearing a red hood and lying on a straw mat. he appears to be weeping profusely

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anyways, image source: british library, royal 15 d i, fol. 23r bl.uk/catalogues/ill

oh no........

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this is a scene from the book of tobit.....i love pre-christian scripture bc what is this ???

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Tobit, a pious man, buries dead Israelites, but one evening while he sleeps he is blinded by a bird which defecates in his eyes. He becomes dependent on his wife, but accuses her of stealing and prays for death. Meanwhile, his relative Sarah, living in far-off Ecbatana, also prays for death, for the demon Asmodeus has killed her suitors on their wedding nights and she is accused of having caused their deaths.

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"honestly, don't even worry about it"

a medieval drawing in greyscale of a man sitting by the beach while a large sea creature rears out of the water to bite his foot. A dog stands next to him, barking at the creature, and next to the dog an angel who points at the creature with an expression of mild concern. The man on the beach is looking back at the angel and shrugging bemusedly as if to say "oh well!"

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I have sadly not been able to find a digitised version of this manuscript! it's at the national library of russia, call number is Germ. F.v. XIV.1. If anyone speaks russian and can find the full version online you're my bestie!

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gambling monk, germany or switzerland, 14th century

a medieval illustration of a monk wearing dark glasses and robes, throwing dice across a table with a devil-may-care look on his face

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image source btw: bl.uk/catalogues/ill

idk why but i rlly want to make this i think it would be so fun

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unrelated but im thinkin abt reopening the ol merch shop....would ppl be interested if i made medieval magnet poetry but it was like actual letters from medieval manuscripts that i scanned and cleaned up and vectorised ? (random sampler below)

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jousting, france, 14th century

A medieval drawing of a dog riding on the shoulders of a rabbit and jousting with a rabbit riding on the back of a snail with the head of a man

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