An Obsessed Bibliophile

Emma | she/her | academic working on the history of the book and libraries 📚📖

[tomorrowandbeyond]

[eggerlandmystery]

hahaha alright dude take it easy see you later

[plaguedocboi]

Im weighing in on the discourse. We need to start putting sea monsters on maps again.

[transsexualtestified-deactivate]

cmon bro just one pdf cant hurt. no one gets addicted after one pdf lmao it's totally fine bro

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Smiling Bats

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v

[arthistorycq]

I love them so much.

[english-history-trip]

Everyone loves to doodle Bat

[vastwinterskies]

when they designed the lieutenant's uniforms in the 1780s they made the lapels white. to better indicate where to grab your lieutenants

[vastwinterskies]

this changed with the advent of the double breasted design in the 1810s: the new uniforms were worn buttoned up. lieutenant grabbing practices declined in correlation. causation cannot be proven but may, regrettably, be assumed.

[medievalfeed]

Saint Hildegard with her nuns, illumination from the “Omne Bonum” encyclopedia by James le Palmer, 14th century

[enki2]

[hylianengineer]

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

[copperbadge]

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

[charaznablespeteevee]

[bowelfly]

possum party

artfight for @rebeckeronie and @fwipination

[bowelfly]

happy shrewsday

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[meeliesaysno]

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

[ksfoxwald]

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

[ithasteeth]

I LOVE LIBRARY

[queerliblib]

WE LOVE LIBRARY USERS

[wizardarchetypes]

reading a paper written by an expert in your field that you personally respect deeply and disagreeing with something they say fundamentally and with zeal is so funny. like well you may be an expert whose writings have been foundational the my very field of study and i may just be some guy struggling to write his master's thesis but you're wrong and i'm right. ☝️ about this.

[romanceyourdemons]

doing research in the field of humanities is interesting because there isn’t necessary this paradigm of the most recently published studies are by definition the best that you get in the hard sciences, like sometimes that book published in 1909 really continues to be the best foundational text about 1590s amsterdam, but then again sometimes i’m reading a text published in the 60s and it starts describing italian culture as “oriental” with no further discussion and i’m like hmmm maybe i should find something a little more current

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[brothercynewulf]

I be'eth at the convent I be'eth at the monastery I be'eth at the combination double monastery

[an-obsessed-bibliophile]

Unfortunately, I have very much become the sort of person who goes 'that's just like when my blorbo...', except my blorbo is Joscelin of Brakelond, monk of Bury St Edmunds during the late twelfth century

[bowelfly]

the brothers are getting rowdy on bramble wine again

[fluentisonus]

feeling indescribable feelings about this

[poets in a landscape, gilbert highet]

[fluentisonus]

[catullus: a commentary, fordyce]