ASNaC Society blog

The official tumblr for the ASNC society at Cambridge. Warning: medieval madness ahead. For more information, visit our site: asnac.soc.srcf.net

[tiffbaxter]

⚔️HWÆT!⚔️ Had a lot of fun designing this Beowulf inspired bookmark~

[itscolossal]

Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

[thesilicontribesman]

The Drosten Early Medieval Sculptured Stone, St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum, Arbroath, Angus

[medievalpoc]

An African Abbot in Anglo-Saxon England

To commemorate Black History Month in the United Kingdom, today we remember one of the first Africans to live in Anglo-Saxon England. The man in question was Hadrian (d. 709), the abbot of St Peter’s and St Paul’s at Canterbury, who played a pivotal role in the development of the early Anglo-Saxon Church.

Read More at the British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog!

[normal-horoscopes]

God I fucking love being a monk at the Monastery of Lindisfarne on this fine morning of June 8th, 793. I love looking at all the gold and silver objects and alive monks that live here.

[thesilicontribesman]

Anglo-Saxon Bird Brooch, The British Museum, London

[luetta]

[oldenglishtextposts]

[cuties-in-codices]

trompe-l'œil

illusions of three-dimensionality (trompe-l'œil) in manuscript illuminatons from a codex containing st. jerome's translation of the chronicon of eusebius of caesarea. produced in padua or venice, c. 1480

source: Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 49, ff. 10r, 11r, and 13r

[real-language-facts]

resurrected a dead language and it came back wrong

[iphigenesis]

who else up mourning lost texts

[werewolf-transgenderism]

started knitting my beowulf socks today. it turns out that all you need to do to get me to knit socks is slap some insular script on there

[werewolf-transgenderism]

HWÆT!

[asnacsociety]

Watch the 2025 ASNaC Society Yule Play on YouTube!

Yule Play 2025!

Home of the 2025 ASNaC Society Yule Play. Performed on 2nd December 2025 in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, watch a play of medieval parod

ft. a Táin-themed parody of Welcome to the Black Parade, "Real Holy Monk", a Pink Pony Club parody based on St Cuthbert, ASNaC Take Me Out (To the Church Where We Can Be Lawfully Wedded), and a four-part play, "Navigatio Sancti Bunfi", inspired by the Voyage of St Brendan.

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold and garnet disc pendant, England, early 7th century

from The MET

[finnlongman]

Finally editing the Yule Play videos.

It's April.

The Yule Play was the first week of December.

:')

[twobeesornottwobees]

printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them

[cuties-in-codices]

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r