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I just LOVE digitized manuscripts! Old stuff for everyone to behold! 🥳 Here’s more info:

Following the cyber-attack on the British Library last year, staff have been working behind the scenes to restore access to the Library’s di

Or just jump straight to the fun:

Access 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts from the British Library archive, available to view in high definition

#medieval manuscripts #ref

quia-nominor--leo

Forced Franciscan tonsurization Saturday or something

#WHAT

madonnaofthemeadow

medieval gender studies

#lit

orpheuslament

sooo when are you dropping the links. to texts about religion and sexuality and transgression

closet devotions by richard rambuss

the man jesus loved by theodore w. jennings, jr

jonathan loved david by tom horner

the sex lives of saints by virginia burrus

toward a theology of eros

i also recommend the essay "gendering jesus crucified" by richard c. trexler that you can find here & richard rambuss' essay "pleasure and devotion: the body of jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric" in queering the renaissance

#lit

rotgospels

a masterpost of my reading lists and recs:

medieval women mystics

catherine of siena

joan of arc

frankenstein, mary shelley

early christianity and early christian writing

lesbian nuns, monastic life

theology, the bible and horror theory

early modern european witch hunts + my goodreads list

#lit

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Jesus would smile a little bit if you made a mean joke that was really funny but he wouldn’t laugh

allaboutmary

A devotional image of the Sacred Heart of Mary by the Beuron Art School, a German movement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries which promoted a revival of early Christian and Byzantine art.

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Reading the lives of many of the saints, some of them seem almost inhuman. That’s why I’m glad there’s a saint like Joseph of Cupertino, who is known, among other things, for being kind of a dumbass.

He frequently forgot what he was told to do, dropped piles of dishes, found exams “difficult and stressful,” and was generally regarded as “remarkably unclever.” He passed his seminary exams by miraculously only being asked questions he knew. He’s the patron saint of students sitting exams and people with learning disabilities (also pilots, because he was prone to levitation).

“O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing.”

birdlibrary

love this guy

he’s levitating in every painting i’ve seen of him and everyone’s just like “there he goes”

copperbadge

I enjoy reading the lives of saints sometimes so I looked this fellow up and then went browsing through his medals, and I have to say most of them basically just look like these paintings but then there’s

NYOOOOOOM!

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[ID: Four images; the top three are of a man in a Franciscan order’s robes, levitating, while other friars and sometimes angels look on in amazement. He has upraised arms and a fluffy beard and seems pretty cool. The fourth image is a saint’s medal shown front and back; the back reads St. Joseph of Cupertino, while the front shows a man soaring through the air horizontally, arms outstretched, greatly resembling an airplane.]