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note to self: polearms
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20.07.2022 | 10/100 days of productivity
Last backdated post! Went to look at MS Hunter 438 (V.5.8) on my last full day in Glasgow. It's a 12th/13th century copy of Bede's commentaries on Acts. It ended up not being super relevant to my research, but it was very cool nevertheless!
from page 112 of a mid-ninth century manuscript of Priscianâs Institutes of Grammar; at the top of this page is a poem written by an Irish monk. Source.
Original Irish
Is acher ingĂĄith innocht fufuasna faircggae findá¸olt ni ĂĄgor rĂŠimm mora minn dondlĂĄechraid lainn oua lothlind
English TranslationÂ
Bitter is the wind tonight; It tosses the oceanâs white hair. Tonight I fear not the fierce warriors of Norway Coursing on the Irish sea.
guy who has only read medieval literature experiencing anything: getting a lot of medieval literature vibes from this
me when i go outside and see a river: omg this is just like when sir blorbot of maisheux crossed a bridge đđđđ!!!!Â
Robert Bartlett, excerpt from Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever
The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where youâre like surely. Surely we canât get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.
For my own amusement, I have included some even sluttier Sebastians found in the most cursory of Google searches:
so shameful that no medieval poet wanted ME to guide them through their sexual awakening journey through the underworld or whatever idk i didnât read the whole book
Horoscope, Ancient Iran, by Imad al-Din Mahmud al-Kashi
Showing the positions of the heavens at the moment of Prince Iskandarâs birth on April 25, 1384
Caroline Bynum, excerpt from Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
my preferred pronouns are iste, ista, istud
âConsider the Vikings. Popular feminist retellings like the History Channelâs fictional saga âVikingsâ emphasize the role of women as warriors and chieftains. But they barely hint at how crucial womenâs work was to the ships that carried these warriors to distant shores.
One of the central characters in âVikingsâ is an ingenious shipbuilder. But his ships apparently get their sails off the rack. The fabric is just there, like the textiles we take for granted in our 21st-century lives. The women who prepared the wool, spun it into thread, wove the fabric and sewed the sails have vanished.
In reality, from start to finish, it took longer to make a Viking sail than to build a Viking ship. So precious was a sail that one of the Icelandic sagas records how a hero wept when his was stolen. Simply spinning wool into enough thread to weave a single sail required more than a yearâs work, the equivalent of about 385 eight-hour days.
King Canute, who ruled a North Sea empire in the 11th century, had a fleet comprising about a million square meters of sailcloth. For the spinning alone, those sails represented the equivalent of 10,000 work years.â
â...Picturing historical women as producers requires a change of attitude. Even today, after decades of feminist influence, we too often assume that making important things is a male domain. Women stereotypically decorate and consume. They engage with people. They donât manufacture essential goods.
Yet from the Renaissance until the 19th century, European art represented the idea of âindustryâ not with smokestacks but with spinning women. Everyone understood that their never-ending labor was essential. It took at least 20 spinners to keep a single loom supplied.
âThe spinners never stand still for want of work; they always have it if they please; but weavers are sometimes idle for want of yarn,â the agronomist and travel writer Arthur Young, who toured northern England in 1768, wrote.
Shortly thereafter, the spinning machines of the Industrial Revolution liberated women from their spindles and distaffs, beginning the centuries-long process that raised even the worldâs poorest people to living standards our ancestors could not have imagined.
But that âgreat enrichmentâ had an unfortunate side effect. Textile abundance erased our memories of womenâs historic contributions to one of humanityâs most important endeavors. It turned industry into entertainment.
âIn the West,â Dr. Harlow wrote, âthe production of textiles has moved from being a fundamental, indeed essential, part of the industrial economy to a predominantly female craft activity.ââ
- Virginia Postrel, âWomen and Men Are Like the Threads of a Woven Fabric.â in The New York Times
A different subject, of course, but this post nonetheless made me think of this passage from The Herb of Grace by Elizabeth Goudge:
It was homemaking that mattered. Every home was a brick in the great wall of decent living that men erected over and over again as a bulwark against the perpetual flooding in of evil. But women made the bricks, and the durableness of each civilization depended upon their quality, and it was no good weakening oneself for the brick-making by thinking too much about the flood.
something about mary magdalene not recognising jesus until he calls her by her name makes me crazy i dont even know how to put it into words. its as if in that moment mary remembers all the times jesus has asked her for advice or told her a joke or simply greeted her using that same name and tone and stops weeping because she knows that voice ! she has heard it mutter her name countless of times ! how could she forget !
like she recognises him instantly after he says her name! its all it takes to convince her that hes in front of her and alive again!
Ruin of a Church, Rudolf von Alt , 1849, Cleveland Museum of Art: Drawings
Size: Image: 25 x 17.8 cm (9 13/16 x 7 in.) Medium: watercolor with gouache and glazing
https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.99
I fukin love 14th century art art because everyone looks so shady and suspicious of ppl around them its AMAZING
or just like they know something u dont and oh my gdfuck i cant
I believe the highest point is reached in Simone Martiniâs Annunciation
and the look of absolute hatred Mary and Gabriel exchange.Â
Hellenic History PDFS
A collection of free Hellenic History PDFs, from the Bronze Age to Modern day Greece. If you are interested in works about Ancient Greek Religion, please look through my blog as I give them away freely.
if you struggle with opening a PDF or need a pdf that is locked behind a paywall, use sci-hub to access them.
Bronze Age
Cline, E. H. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean. OUP USA. [link]
Dickinson, O. (2007). The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]
Harding, A. (2021). Bronze Age Lives. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [link]
Knapp, B. A., & Dommelen, V. P. (2015). The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean (Illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Taylor, Lindsay, (2019) The Snake Goddess Dethroned: Deconstructing the Work and Legacy of Sir Arthur Evans. Honors College. [link]
Archaic Greece
Dillon, M., & Garland, L. (2010). Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) (3rd ed.). Routledge. [link]
Raaflaub, K. A., & Wees, V. H. (2012). A Companion to Archaic Greece (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Rayor, D. J., & Johnson, W. R. (1991). Sapphoâs Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (First ed.). University of California Press. [link]
Shapiro, H. A. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Classical Greece
Kinzl, K. H. (2010). A Companion to the Classical Greek World (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. (1996). âReadingâ Greek Death: To the End of the Classical Period. Clarendon Press. [link]
Hellenistic and Roman Greece
Bugh, G. R. (2006). The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Erskine, A. (2005). A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Stevens, K. (2019). Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Byzantine Greece
Garland, L. (2011). Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527â1204 (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]
Hussey, J. M., & Louth, A. (2010). The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (Oxford History of the Christian Church) (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. [link]
K. (2021). Alexiad (09) by Komnene, Anna [Paperback (2009)]. Penguin Clasics, Paperback(2009). [link]
Lauritzen, F. (2013). The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization). Brepols Publishers. [link]
Neville, L. (2019). Byzantine Gender (Past Imperfect) (New ed.). Arc Humanities Press. [link]
Psellos, M., & Kaldellis, A. (2006). Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Michael Psellos in Translation) (1st ed.). University of Notre Dame Press. [link]
Psellos, M., Papaioannou, S., & Barber, C. (2017). Michael Psellos on Literature and Art: A Byzantine Perspective on Aesthetics (Michael Psellos in Translation) (1st ed.). University of Notre Dame Press. [link]
Shepard, J. (2009). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Venetian possessions and Ottoman rule (15th century â 1821)
Davies, S., & Davis, J. L. (2007). Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (Hesperia Supplement) (Volume XL ed.). American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [link]
Halstead, H. (2018). Greeks without Greece: Homelands, Belonging, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]
Naar, D. E. (2016). Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) (1st ed.). Stanford University Press. [link]
Vionis, A. K. (2013). A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology: Built Environment and Domestic Material Culture in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Cyclades, ⌠Studies Leiden University Press). Leiden University Press. [link]
Zarinebaf, F., Bennet, J., & Davis, J. L. (2005). A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century (Hesperia Supplement). American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [link]
Modern Greece
Avdela, E., Gallant, T., Papadogiannis, N., Papastefanaki, L., & Voglis, P. (2017). The social history of modern Greece: a roundtable. Social History, 43(1), 105â125. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2018.1394037 [link]
Beaton, R. (2004). Folk Poetry of Modern Greece (Revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. [link]
Featherstone, K., Papadimitriou, D., Mamarelis, A., & Niarchos, G. (2011). The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece 1940â1949 (New Perspectives on South-East Europe) (1st ed. 2011 ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. [link]
Honor, Masculinity, and Ritual Knife Fighting in Nineteenth-Century Greece. (2000). The American Historical Review. Published. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.2.359 [link]
McGuckin, J. A. (2010). The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Books That Cover Multiple Eras
Carney, E. D., & MĂźller, S. (2020). The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]
James, S. L., & Dillon, S. (2015). A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Llewellyn-Jones, L. (2003). Aphroditeâs Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (Illustrated ed.). Classical Press of Wales. [link]
Mackridge, P. (2010). Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766â1976 (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. [link]
Ober;, J. (2021). The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (The Princeton History of the Ancient World) by Josiah Ober (2015â05-04). Princeton University Press; First Edition edition (2015â05-04). [link]
Petropoulos, J. (2014). Greek Magic (Monographs in Classical Studies) (1st ed.). Routledge. [link]
Rawson, B. (2011). A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Book 86) (1st ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. [link]
Tziovas, D. (2016). Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700. Taylor & Francis. [link]
I hope this collections helps yâall with knowing more about Greek History - I havenât read them all, and that is something I plan to fix. Feel free to recommend more books, knowledge is good!
gotta love the fact that of the two lives of St Radegund, the one written by a nun is all about her good work for the community and the one written by a monk is torture porn.Â
this is from the Vita Radegundis of the nun Baudonivia:
(that attitude. iâd literally let radegund drive her horse over me.)
and this is from her Life by Fortunatus, who clearly had a problem (proceed with caution: very violent self-harm)
gotta love the fact that of the two lives of St Radegund, the one written by a nun is all about her good work for the community and the one written by a monk is torture porn.Â