it’s pronounced “o’dig-nan”

Rye O’Duibggeannain of Cynnabar, Pentamere in the Midrealm. Joined the SCA June 2024.

[wizardarchetypes]

song of the summer (via muco_0 on tiktok)

[enigma-absolute]

You can’t just leave us without translation!

[kirkwallhellmouth]

And have some additional nerdery about the song (includes pictures of the original manuscript—and where a scribe decided to change some notes, but the original notes were still obvious):

Sumer is icumen in / Perspice Christicola: silencing the cuckoo

Sumer is icumen in is the earliest surviving complete English secular song, sung in this article’s video with all six voices indicated in th

[pitchburgh]

saw someone trying to roast this guy on reddit but all the comments were just like "fuck off, that's based"

nature is healing

[augustdementhe]

FUCK YEAH.

[anachronistic-cat]

FUCK YEAH!

[pusong-mangga]

Serfs against TERFs by rayofthorns

[importantcatpics]

[mundane-theron-sca-etienne]

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

[ursus-arctos-horribilis-chadder]

Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP

[knightwithakay]

Fire montante at Shamrocks in the Shire!

We did some sparring demos, dance instruction, and a lot of pitching HEMA and talking historical weapons at our tent, but the dramatic closer for the day was lighting a big ol’ sword on fire. My instructor took the first round, and after a cooldown (during which other folk joined in with fire poi performances!) I got to try the fire sword for the first time. You may be able to tell from my expression that I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Left the sound on rather than hype music so you can hear this thing— it roars.

[lowrifaberart]

🏳️‍⚧️🌝

[technofeudal]

Allow me to illuminate you. Original art and calligraphy by me from many years ago.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[the-etcetera-archive]

Source: Tripod Jar with Lid; China, Tang Dynasty (618–906). Art Institute Chicago.

[curioustrapdetective]

[genderoutlaws]

Idaho Passes Most Extreme Bathroom Ban In Nation, Creating Path To Life In Prison

Second offense transgender bathroom usage has a 5 year maximum penalty, but four offenses trigger's Idaho's "persistent violator" statute, w

"Second offense transgender bathroom usage has a 5 year maximum penalty, but four offenses trigger's Idaho's "persistent violator" statute, which can carry life in prison."

[genderoutlaws]

Trans Affirm is a community funded org that provides resources to trans people in Idaho. You can also donate to them here financially or donate supplies, as well as get involved with volunteering with them.

resource hub — Trans Affirm, Inc

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[mediaeval-muse]

Psalter

England, perhaps Canterbury, ca. 1180

MS G.43 at the Morgan Library and Museum

Someone made a doodle!

[mediaeval-muse]

A note on medieval hats...

TW for anti-Semitism and some discussion of Islamophobia.

So, as I'm looking through manuscripts, I see a lot of images similar to this one where a Jewish person is identified by their conical, pointy hat:

This is another one of those things that began as something neutral (medieval Jews wearing particular headgear by choice, medieval art using specific hats to designate people as religious or philosophical leaders) and later became something discriminatory (clothing for Jews enforced by law, clothing used to stigmatize Jews in art).

From what I understand, early Christian art began depicting Jews (particularly the prophets) as wearing pointy caps not because actual Jews were wearing such items. Rather, the cap is similar to Greek and Middle Eastern art which puts distinctive headgear on people of note. In my reading, some authors cite Phygian art which puts pointy hats on barbarians. Some cited other traditions where hats are used to depict distinguished scholars or religious leaders. Some associated pointy hats with sorcery and some with freed slaves.

Over time, though, the pointy hats became a stigmatizing article of clothing in medieval Europe. A lot of sources point to the Fourth Council of the Lateran of 1213-1215 as a defining historical moment in this regard. During this council, the Christian Church decided that both Jews and Muslims had to wear something distinctive so that Christians wouldn't "fall into error" by interacting with them. This decision is regarded as one of the many events that opened the door to systemic oppression of Jews (and Muslims) in Europe. It doesn't mean discrimination didn't exist beforehand; it means that we see discrimination becoming more and more codified in law on a grand scale.

As a result, the hat is distinctive in medieval art and carries heavy connotations. I'll do my best to put these images under a cut so you can choose with how to engage with them, but I should make a disclaimer: I don't think I'll catch every one. While some depictions are pretty obvious (like the image I posted above), others are less so:

Conical and pointy? Yes. But is it the same hat as the one with the antenna-looking thing? I wouldn't have thought so, but it might be.

If you want to learn more about these hats and their history, here are a few resources:

The Wiki article for a general intro:

Jewish hat - Wikipedia

A blog post:

https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh_jewish_hat/

A paper about the history:

The Wandering Hat: Iterations of the Medieval Jewish Pointed Cap

From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, a cone-shaped hat called a pileus cornutus served as a distinguishing sign for Jews in the Germ

JSTOR:

The Complicated History of Pointy Hats - JSTOR Daily

What do sorcerers, bishops, and garden gnomes all have in common? Pointy hats that share a common story deeply enmeshed in European antisemi

Specific example study:

The round, cap-shaped hats depicted on Jews in BM Cotton Claudius B. iv | Anglo-Saxon England | Cambridge Core

The round, cap-shaped hats depicted on Jews in BM Cotton Claudius B. iv - Volume 2

The hat as depicted on birds in a Hebrew text:

Birds’ Head Haggadah - scholar gives new insights into Jewish medieval text - Medievalists.net

The Birds' Head Haggadah, a manuscript dating from around the year 1300, is considered one of the most interesting and mysterious pieces of

[petrarchesco]

Some comparisons between two copies of the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus, falconry treaty written by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.

On the left the vatican copy (ms Pal.Lat. 1071), commissioned by Manfred, son of Frederick II, and probably made during his kingdom (1258-1266). On the right a french translation (ms Français 12400), commissioned by Jean, lord of Dampierre and Saint-Dizier, and his daughter Isabelle in the late 13th century.