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Larisa Grollemond

@larisag.bsky.social

Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.

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The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement “Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend together in a mix of some fact informed by historical fiction, and e…

Nice review of Going Places!

observer.com/2025/10/exhi...

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some days I just want to move to a remote cabin on Svalbard, an island close to the North Pole, and be friends with Cecilia and Grim. IYKYK.

02.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

listening to my husband explain a regular clock to my 5 year old and it’s a miracle any of us can tell time

28.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

delete your academia account for lots of reasons (mainly that it’s awful in every way), but also because of this nightmare new ToS

17.09.2025 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Medievalism II: Fragments, Fictions, Futures - Different Visions Call for Proposals Following our first special issue, Encountering Medievalism, this second volume in the two-part series further investigates art historical medievalisms, with a focus on how medieval...

🚨Cool CFP alert! Are you working on something cool related to medievalism? We want your proposals for an upcoming issue of Different Visions: Medievalism II: Fragments, Fictions, Futures--non-traditional formats and approaches very welcome!

differentvisions.org/medievalism-...

05.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

my Medieval Tymes intro for Going Places 🫏🗺️🧭

05.09.2025 04:14 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it will be on view for the first time at the Getty in Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages, opening next Tuesday!

29.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Adventures of Alexander the Great, Medieval-Style Alexander battles giants and unicorns in this new addition to Getty’s manuscripts collection

🚨new acquisition! @gettymuseum.bsky.social just acquired this gorg late 13th century French/Flemish copy of the Romance of Alexander:

www.getty.edu/news/romance...

29.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Next week--sign up online for the Zoom link!

27.08.2025 21:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the U.S. Feel a Chill

“This is the new censorship: not a loud rejection, but a quiet dilution. And it’s just as effective.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a...

27.08.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So fun! Thanks @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social!

26.08.2025 18:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at The Getty - Medievalists.net The Getty Center will present Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages from September 2 to November 30, 2025, exploring medieval journeys through rare manuscripts, pilgrimages, trade, and imaginative v...

Thanks for the write-up of Going Places, @medievalists.bsky.social !

www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin...

18.08.2025 18:24 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

eating all those authentically medieval Spanish foods, tomato soup and corn

11.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

truly that would be the thing that would totally take the audience out of the entirely accurate historical experience!

11.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Work for Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Work as a Squire for Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament at 7662 Beach Boulevard, Buena Park, US, CA, 90620

it's always included in the Squire job postings: apply.jobappnetwork.com/clients/1342...

11.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

because of COURSE he did

11.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the GENUINENESS of the production, of course

11.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

imagine the theatrical drama of a lady knight disguised as a man!

11.08.2025 21:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

the disclaimer reads: "To preserve the authenticity and genuineness of the scripted role of Knights in the Medieval Times theatrical production."

11.08.2025 21:05 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 3

Guys did you know that in the year of Our Lord 2025, the position of "squire" at Medieval Times (and of course, in connection, Knights who are promoted from the ranks of Squires) can only be filled by "male performers"?

11.08.2025 21:05 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Art Break: Travel in the Middle Ages | Getty Event Why did people travel in the Middle Ages? In this conversation, discover the compelling and often unexpected voyages of medieval people.

Thrilled to be hosting this ONLINE, FREE Art Break to talk to Anthony Bale (@realmandeville@bsky.social) about travel in the Middle Ages on Sept. 4th at 12pm PST--sign up here:
www.getty.edu/calendar/art...

04.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Our latest blog features a recent acquisition: a Parisian journal, in medieval style, inspired by the 1900 Paris Exposition. Read all about it here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30510

04.08.2025 09:41 — 👍 54    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 5

how dare I, an American, speak about European history

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Cotton Gloves and Old Books? No Way! | Bite Sized Book History
YouTube video by Book Historia Cotton Gloves and Old Books? No Way! | Bite Sized Book History

@book-historia.bsky.social has also made a wonderful video on this topic!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDMp...

29.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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White Gloves or Not White Gloves Whenever a British Library manuscript is featured in the press or on television, we inevitably receive adverse comments about our failure to wear white gloves! The association of glove-wearing with ha...

mss and paper conservators throughout the field have agreed that gloves reduce dexterity and actually can cause more harm than good in most cases, for manuscripts the standard is clean, dry hands: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

29.07.2025 20:56 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The facebook people are BIG MAD today that I don't use gloves to handle manuscripts

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new Medieval Tymes, live from the study room: BIG and also very smol

28.07.2025 16:32 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages | Getty Exhibitions Explore how manuscript illuminators documented and reimagined medieval travel in a variety of modes.

Opening soon: Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages at the Getty Center (Sept. 2--Nov. 30, 2025)

www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

25.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

Did you know that if you work from home, you can just make yourself a stack of blueberry pancakes for lunch? No one stops you

24.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Medieval Bestiaries "Medieval Bestiaries" published on 14 Jul 2025 by Brill.

📖New Medieval Publication: "Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches," edited by Debra Strickland, is out in ebook format (hardcover pub date July 31st)!

So thrilled to see my contribution on the 16th century legacy of the medieval bestiary in such distinguished company

brill.com/display/titl...

22.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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