Sexy Heretical Medieval Nun

Clay / mid twenties / wouldn't you like to know / dedicated to my love for medieval art, architecture, and weirdness as well as personal weirdness

[medievalnun]

o to be a little shepherd boy lost in the fog for a thousand years...

[lookcaitlin]

[medievalnun]

This is where I post from, if you even care

[pwlanier]

Reliquary of John The Baptist.

Sint-Baafskathedraal Gent

Art in Flanders

[medievalnun]

Impossible for me not to reblog a reliquary head. I mean, come on.

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, quae praeter naturae ordinem, et in superioribus et his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad haec nostra tempora acciderunt. (1557) Conrad Lycosthenes

[maertyrer]

Skull of Saint Valentine

Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin, Rome

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Helmingham herbal and bestiary.

Place oforigin/Published: Helmingham, Suffolk

Date: ca. 1500

[shuttered-gallery]

"Yearning" by Emile Corsi, 1863

[femmequeens]

Alek Wek @ Betsey Johnson Fall/Winter 1997

[lionofchaeronea]

Broadway on a Rainy Evening, Everett Warner, 1901

[deathandmysticism]

David Cambell, The seven angels with seven trumpets, Illustrations of Prophecy, 1840 

[ducissatenebrarum]

From the Last Judgement mosaic on the west wall of the nave of Torcello Cathedral.

[medievalnun]

i must say.... it is inchrestring

[virgocurator]

Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Utrecht ca. 1440

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[mothprincess]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

[medievalnun]

"It is June. I am tired of being brave."

—Anne Sexton, "The Truth The Dead Know."

[medievalnun]

A Scythian (Tagar Culture II) Bronze Applique in the Form of a Coiled Animal

5th-4th century B.C.E.