Medieval Golden Dragon
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Medieval Golden Dragon
Now on desk pads
Viking were considered far cleaner and well-groomed than Anglo-Saxons of the time and one chronicler attributes the English women’s interest in the Danish men to this fact!
I don't think I ever shared this here. Second SCA #calligraphy attempt. My #textura needs work, but it's getting easier. Illumination by @badwolfsca. #medieval #mysca #medievaltwitter #livinghistory #historicalreenactment https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqIvV3HjB4/?igshid=1qo41e2qm9gd5
#MedievalTwitter Thread by Sjoerd Levelt (wordpress)
Medieval Magical Scene
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Medieval city of Cesky Krumlov.
Now that would make a great #BlenderRender
#ceskykrumlov #czech #medieval #medievaltwitter #tourism #travel #traveltips #blender #anime location #europe #wanderlust
In Praise of Medieval Lesbians Accidentally Having a Baby
Erik Wade has published a twitter-thread on lesbians in Medieval Europe. The thread is relevant to all LGBTQA people, because it tells us something about how historians and other writers have censored the history of sexuality and gender in order to make sure that no queer role models remained.
Erik Wade writes:
Here's a AMAZING 12th-century Middle Irish story about lesbians accidentally having a baby. A woman asked the king to determine her baby's father, bc she hadn't sex with a man in a long time. The king asked if she'd had sex with a woman. The woman said yes.
While they were there, a woman came to the king carrying a boy-child, and put him into the king’s arms. ‘For your kingship and your sovereignty,’ said she, ‘find out for me through your ruler’s truth who the carnal father of this boy is, for I do not know myself. For I swear by your ruler’s truth, and by the King who governs every created thing that I have not known guilt with a man for many years now,’
The king was silent then. ‘Have you had playful mating with another woman?’ said he, ‘and do not conceal it if you have.’ ‘I will not conceal it,’ said she; ‘I have.’ ‘It is true,’ said the king. ‘That woman had mated with a man just before, and the semen which he left with her, she put it into your womb in the tumbling, so that it was begotten in your womb. That man is the father of your child, and let it be found out who he is.’
The king basically says, "Oh, then she must have had sex with her husband beforehand, and the semen fell into your womb during your 'tumbling.'"
Immediately, a MAN FALLS OUT OF THE SKY. He introduces himself as a priest who made a deal with a demon. The demons had been carrying him through the air for 7 years, but they were overhead when the king was speaking, & the truth made the demons scatter, freeing the priest.
#MedievalTwitter this morning.
Reading List:
Re-making The Real Middle Ages™ by Helen Young
The Invention of Race in the European MIddle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages II: Locations of Medieval Race by Geraldine Heng
Race-ing the Dragon: the Middle Ages, Race and Trippin’ into the Future by Cord J Whitaker
“Intersections: On Annoyances, Mistakes … and Possibilities” by Jonathan Hsy
J J Cohen, “On Medieval Race”
Divergent Bodies and Medieval Studies by Dorothy Kim
Diversity and #MedievalTwitter by Michelle R. Warren