#abbess

[oldartss]

Gods Creatures by Eugene de Blaas (1877)

[medievalistsnet]

Meet Caritas Pirckheimer: Scholar, Abbess, and Renaissance Writer

When the Protestant Reformation swept through Nuremberg, one abbess refused to surrender her convent. Caritas Pirckheimer used scholarship, political connections, and years of literary experience to defend her community against reformers and city officials.

Read here

[bunny-bluue]

So I decided to do a redraw again and this time I chose one of my Hellsing OC drawings, where the Vampire Queen: Sorina Dinescu and Mother Superior: Miriam Harris, are just raring to fight each other and their respective partners can’t help but to watch in captivation, moments before they engage in their own deadly fight.

[rossodimarte]

Herrad von Landsberg (1130-1195), The rich man and the poor Lazarus, illumination from the Hortus deliciarum

Dives moritur et demones animam ejus rapiunt

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Morvenn Vahl Abbess by Isra Llona

[wandering-cemeteries]

Sepulchral slab of the abbess Adriana Gerumda

Museo Archeologico di Santa Scolastica

Bari, Italy

March 2024

[awarenessisnondual]

Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) was a remarkably accomplished individual for her time and for all time no man has ever lived who shared this level of accomplishments, making significant contributions across multiple fields:

Spiritual writings: 🙏 Authored Visionary Theological Works

Diplomacy: 👌Counseled Religious and Secular Leaders

Art: 🌹Supervised Manuscript Illuminations

Music: 🎶 Composed Sacred Monophony

Medicine: 💕 Documented natural remedies: Hildegard wrote two works, Physica and Causae et Curae.

[alexnaszados]

St Hildegard von Bingen

oil on carved wood, 2019

9″ x 27″ x .75″ Alex Naszados