A rare example of a 12th C (catalogue calls it, I think a bit earlier) punctus interrogativus, or question mark. The clause starts 2 lines from the bottom, on the right "Petre amas me?" #Vatican Barb.lat.541 f.2v #Medievodons#Medieval
There's been a Kingsett Farm in Newleycombe Valley, Dartmoor, since at least 1330. After Plymouth City Corporation built the dam for Burrator reservoir in late C19, tenants of farms in the catchment were hassled to leave, but the Pearce family at Kingsett resisted. The Corporation then bought Kingsett Farm and barred tenants from keeping animals. The Pearce family left in 1924 with no compensation.
Kingsett is one of many ruined farms in the watershed of Burrator Reservoir.
Just hitting the news is information about a Medieval bathhouse that has been discovered in Spain. The bathhouse is indicative of the spread of the bathing culture through Islamic Spain. Bathouses were not just for health and hygiene but a method of socialising and spirituality. A museum is now planned at the site to enable tourists to view the excavations. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medieval-bathhouse-discovered-in-spain/
This teeny-tiny vintage Fiat 500 probably had the biggest sound system I think I've ever seen in a car. There were so many speakers, woofers, subwoofers - it was like an Italian Tardis!
I've been setting up a #geonode instance for a #medieval studies institute. Next step will include #qgis training :) any good and clean basemaps that I can use? No #Esri account so I think no esri basemaps are available (because of copyright).
Headless fight. Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 99v. #medieval#MedievalArt
At the 235th Meeting, we voted to continue our work under a new name: the American Society for Premodern Asia. We invite all scholars who work on languages, literatures, history, and material culture of West, Central, South, and East Asia, and North Africa join us! https://bsky.app/profile/aspa1842.bsky.social/post/3lmo5rycwgk2g#ancient#medieval#asia
Découvrez un extraordinaire brûlot politique du XIIIe siècle qui n'épargne aucun aspects de la domination et remet en cause l'autosatisfaction arrogante de l'Occident ; avec Maud Perez Simon et Pierre Olivier Dittmar, médiévistes, spécialistes de ce manuscrit. Sur la chaîne https://www.twitch.tv/bandes_dessinees , lundi 14 à 21H30
A 15th century roof boss in the shape of a lion from Elgin Cathedral in Moray. The boss is part of the Cathedral’s wonderful carved stones exhibition. My own. #StoneworkSunday#ElginCathedral#Medieval
