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she/her - 20s - monkcore, cloistercore and studyblr - (main: @reshiiii) - my stuff #kávička

[illuminatingnun]

studyblr introduction

Hi! After some lurking I finally decided to add my dime to this community.

some stuff about me

you can all me Reshi, 20, she/her but I don't really care

currently abroad

uni student

studying spanish language and literature

languages I speak: slovak, english, spanish (+understand: czech)

academic interests

languages and literature: especially spanish and hispanic, but also latin

everyday history and crafts especially medieval age, bookbinding and clothing

other interests

I love to cook and bake!!

different crafts, but usually I settle for crochet, bookbinding and jewelry making

d&d!!!!! once a cleric, always a cleric

old music. I mean. Old Music

goals

consistency - most of the time I have no motivation, so I hope that joining here will help me a little

As for inspiration, I usually look up to @gaaandaaaalf and @the---hermit.

[eethok]

*opens my heart shaped book of hours to show you my medieval yuri* mi'lady

[ontologicalmoki]

listen I am all for fidget toys. But we need to go harder. Humans were actually not meant to sit through lectures without using their hands. Fight against the robotification of humanity. Do fibercrafts in your office/classroom/church. You do not need to sit there like the impassable ideal man. Do fibercrafts. Start embroidering at work. Listen to the call of the strings.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

whatever hildegards your bingen

[louisetaylor]

whatever julians your norwich

[werewolf-transgenderism]

whatever margerys your kempe

[lesbianbreadwhore]

whatever joans your arc

[gnosisandtheosis]

whatever teresa's your avila

[tubapun]

Note how these columns are designed to perfectly allow the climbing of small lizards up and down their faces. This is a typical example of Gecko-Roman architecture

[brotherhumphrey]

any monk born after 1436 doesn't know how to truly devote themselves to christ... all they know is be late for matins, copy they manuscripts, contemplative herb garden walk, be bisexual, eat eels and lie

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

“The medieval taste for bright colors is well known. It was a ‘barbarous’ taste, which favored big jewels inserted into the boards of book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches and of the houses of the powerful, and the colored magic of stained glass. The almost colorless middle ages which we admire today are the work of the destruction wrought by time and of the anachronistic taste of our contemporaries. However, behind this colored phantasmagoria lay the fear of darkness and the quest for light which was salvation.”

—

Jacques Le Goff,

Medieval Civilization

(‘64)

[thoodleoo]

of course it goes without saying that i am deeply dependent on my illuminated manuscript

[sainted-places]

Chapel at the cloister of Augsburg Cathedral, Germany. (August 2018)

[synthie]

*has two bad days* no one has ever lost the plot this severely. theyre coming for me. theyre coming for me right nowwww….

[jumping-jackalope]

babygirl i have pdfs that even i don't know about

[ailathemoodentity]

SERŽANTE PÍÍÍÍSEK JE BÍÍÍLÝÝÝÝ

[vintageeurope]

Mošovce, Slovakia 1890s

[thevoyaging]

[lost-in-centuries-long-gone]

Medieval Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest, Hungary

Photo by fay

[sevdahalma]

One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

[rubenista]

Aertgen Claesz van Leyden (attributed to), The Raising of Lazarus (detail), 1530 - 1535. Oil on panel, 69.7 × 28cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

[dumbbitchhour]

Innsbruck Court Glassworks, Cup with engraved Tyrolean eagle, 1570 x