#Medieval

Jon Neale

JonNeale

1/17 Coventry is UK City of Culture this year, so there will be a lot written about its built environment. A lot will be based on popular myth. A quick

Ben Woodhams

benwoodhams

So, here’s odd. Back in the early/mid 90s I studied Medieval English at Sheffield University where I met my good friend Tim Higgins. We spent many happy hours in the

Andy Kesson

andykesson

I have to say that Philip the Handsome sounds like my kind of king and if he is free to meet in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries that

Eve

Slavic_Bot

Fata Morgana and representation of Medieval times As I continue to approach this topic I want you all to know this isn't coming from a place of religion or anti

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Thread: medieval depictions of Christ expelling the bankers from the temple, in order of his increasing fury at capitalism. Here, he seems like he's having a polite disagreement. Everyone is

𝕊onja Drimmer

Sonja_Drimmer

Manuscript lesson of the day: anti-theft edition! Here's an inventory of books from St Paul's Cathedral Library, written up in 1458. It is written in the form of a chirograph,

Prof Susan Oosthuizen 💙

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. I fell in love with landscape history in 1984 when I read this book: the author explained, through worked examples, how maps (on rainy days like today) & explorations

Jacopo Gnisci

JacopoGnisci

Since the Art Bulletin had never published anything on the Christian #arts of “#Medieval” #Ethiopia, I'm extremely grateful that the co-editors decided to accept this study of representations of David

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

This morning, come with us as we watch one little church make its daily spin around the Earth’s axis.Arriving at dawn through farmland on the edge of the river Usk,

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

Laugharne, once home to Wales' most celebrated poet, Dylan Thomas, has a strange and intriguing past.Still presided over by a male-only medieval "corporation," Laugharne's (Talacharn in Welsh) 730-year-old system of

Salam Rassi | سلام راسي

salam_rassi

A very interesting perspective from @jbralston. While I understand and respect Dr Ralston’s experience, I feel that it requires redress. I’m usually loath to making these kinds of interventions, but

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

In Islamic eschatology, the world will be flooded by a mighty invasion in the end of days. The great army of the monstrous Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) will

Hugh

hughxtran

Some work in progress of an illuminated I am doing for this Samhain. Allow me to “illuminate” how Medieval illuminated manuscripts were created.[ thread ] In the Medieval period, raised

Nathalie Cohen

Nathalie_Cohen

I'd like to share some research I've recently been doing about the 'Lamp of Knowledge' seen here represented in the Entrance Hall at #BurlingtonHouse #SocAntiquaries https://www.sal.org.uk/collections/explore-our-collections

Spain

spain

Forget big cities and tourist hotspots, rural #Spain is also fascinating! Find it out in this #thread. Beginning in #Penelles (#Lleida), where #streetart is everywhere! noeliaaapp (IG) dragonflyinamber79 (IG) annagalicia17

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Every few hundred years, Jupiter and Saturn meet in a Great Conjunction. For medieval Muslim astrologers the cycles would represent the rise and fall of empires, the coming of messiahs,

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