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maidthings

perhaps the mother loves the cuckoo chick. perhaps the cuckoo chick loves her mother. have you not considered this?

oldenglishtextposts

eaþe mæg þæt seo modor lufað þone geac bridd. eaþe se geac bridd lufað his modor. hu ne þis asmeadest?

annabelhewitson

• You Serve The Story 🖋️❤️‍🔥✨•

riso print in red, sunflower and blue ink | by Annabel Hewitson

prints available here

tiffbaxter

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

undergroundwubwubmaster

Accidental dragon daddy

undergroundwubwubmaster

I wanted tot draw a princess cone, and then the idea got away from me.

undergroundwubwubmaster

A version with a border now available in my Ko-fi as a free print-at-home file!

beardedmrbean

artschoolglasses

Morgan Casket, Italian, 11th-12th Century

From the Met Museum

fcharmaille

How to do trans medieval studies without gender identity.

Out now, in this year's volume of Arthurian Literature.

Choose from multiple link options via Crossref

memories-of-ancients

Silver chalice, Byzantine, 527-565 AD

from Dumbarton Oaks

cryptotheism

"Medieval Christians would have gone nuts for protons, neutrons, and electrons for trinity reasons" sounds like a jokey oversimplification historypost but I cannot really articulate how true that is. They would never shut up about it.

ahopefulbromantic

RIP St Thomas Aquinas you would have loved atomic physics

mottesk

~nom

henry always smells like flowers

resismedievalmenagerie

Medieval bats! I love these guys. They're in the bird section, but clearly even the medieval monks are a little confused about this, writing the bat "uses its teeth, which you may not be accustomed to finding in other birds." Translation comes from Willene B Clark, and you can find the bestiary these are featured in here.