Amadán

Chevalier Sans Reproche

[claimhteoir]

Given the nature of the online history community I've noticed a substantial amount of transphobic, homophoic and misogynistic far-right cretins reblogging my stuff, some even following me.

Please, get the fuck off my blog. You are not welcome here.

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[claimhteoir]

Bodleian Library MS. e Mus. 65, University of Oxford, 1390, Fol. 103v

Can be viewed on the Bodleian Portal here.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1436 Paolo Uccello - Adoration of the Child with saints Hieronymus, Magdalena and Julian

(Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)

[claimhteoir]

BNF Français 343 Queste del Saint Graal / Tristan de Léonois, 1380-1385

[cultofthewyrm]

The Green Knight by Joshua Damian

[dbkcustomscabbards]

Sometimes I wonder where my past works have journeyed over the years. The condition they’re in. The hands that have held them…

[paintingsandhistory]

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of King Charles VII in Reims Cathedral

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Date: 1854

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

[cuties-in-codices]

blinding light attack

full-page illustration from a manuscript of konrad kyeser's bellifortis, alsace, c. 1460

source: Frankfurt a.M, UB, Ms. germ. qu. 15, fol. 50r

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The Vows of the Peacock, MS G.24 at the Morgan Library and Museum

Belgium, probably in Tournai, ca. 1345-1350

[jeannepompadour]

15th century French manuscript of 'Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes 'by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Manuscript illumination depicting a lesbian couple kissing and a gay male couple embracing from the Moralized Bible of Vienna (1220s).

This illustration is one of the only explicit depictions of female homosexuality known from the medieval era.

[chocolatepot]

This detail in context with the rest of the page

Catalogue listing in the University of Michigan library making it clear that this is how it's interpreted

[kuttenberg-gauntlets]

finally... kingdom come heterosexualance 😍

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and don't forget about the AI disclosure on their steam page

[claimhteoir]

Medieval anti-LGBTQ+ discourse happening again because of video games, cool.

Same-sex relations being a modern invention is obviously ridiculous (I suppose a bad faith interpretation of how recent the labelling of sexuality is if I'm being charitable, outright stupidity due to being poorly informed if not). What we in the modern period call homosexuals have always existed. In fact 15th century Florence set up two offices, the office of honesty (1403) and the office of the night (1432) in order to combat the rampant same-sex relations in the city, to the point that "florentzen" became a slang term for same sex relations in 15th century Germany.

Figures like Richard Puller von Hohenburg, a swiss nobleman, prove that (obviously) same-sex relations were not limited to Florence. However, the lack of court records regarding it make it hard to know the extent of these relations compared to Florence.

Florence and England also have evidence in the 14th century of what we in the modern period would consider trans individuals, such as Rolandina Ronchaia from the former and Eleanor Rykener from the latter. Both of them were sex workers who presented as women in their day to day lives. To remove these real experiences which hardly get a chance to make themselves heard by calling it a "modern agenda" is bad history.

Info taken from:

Mazo Karras, R. (2017). Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315269719

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German Messer Technique Gifset

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Source: Virtual Fechtschule (Thanks to @theclericprince for tracking that down)

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Hærra Ivan | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily

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This Is a The Rest is History hate post.

It frustrates me no end how popular this podcast is when it’s doing history badly. It perpetuates a narrative of “great men of history” and a whiggish myth that history is linear and almost inevitable. It plays in to a worldview in which it is just the natural order of things to have ended up in a western focused, patriarchal, capitalist world and I just don’t see how an open reading of history can bring you to that conclusion unless your goal is to reinforce your worldview from the beginning.

Both hosts have a massive chip on their shoulder about academia and how they weren’t successful in it and constantly complain about it being “woke” and not prioritising “real history” and it’s just because they do a type of history that academia moved on from 30 years ago.

Away from his horrible political columns, Sandbrooke churns out books on modern Britain that are written so fast he can’t possibly be doing real research. He misrepresents actual academics to back up his arguments (which are basically that Thatcherism was inevitable and right) and has been accused of plagiarism multiple times.

Tom Holland is slightly better in that many of his books are ok for entry level reading on a topic but they still instil the same world view. For example, his book on the Greco-Persian War only uses Greek sources and takes what they are saying as read. He does the same in articles about British unification where he regurgitates Tudor propaganda without any examination.

It frustrates me no end that they are increasingly becoming the face of history in the UK and further afield. So many people listen to them and take what they say as truth. They never have guests on to present their specialist topics or a different perspective and they rarely talk about anything that isn’t politics, war or male focused.

It’s bad history and they are not getting enough hate

[claimhteoir]

What sort of oil do you use for browning? I've been thinking about rust blueing/blacking the furniture on my Castille stuff (when I actually get it lol) but some antique weathering / browning on some of my older gear.

Thanks for the ask!

I used Birchwood Casey Plum Brown! It's pretty easy to apply, it starts off as the bronze colour you can see in the photos but fades into a dark greyish-brown.

[lordumbriel]