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Medieval history PhD student working on legal & economic history of Venice and the Mediterranean in the central middle ages | https://harvard.academia.edu/ElenaShadrina Here mainly to lurk 👀

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Behold the hole in the parchment!

MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia;
f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social

29.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 183    🔁 34    💬 7    📌 3
Medieval drawing of 3 cats. One of them is trying to get at a bird in a birdcage, one is licking itself and the other one has caught a large rat.

Medieval drawing of 3 cats. One of them is trying to get at a bird in a birdcage, one is licking itself and the other one has caught a large rat.

Cats doing cat things. Bodleian Library Bodley 764 f. 51r #Caturday

26.04.2025 20:53 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Manuscript was decorated by the cleric Wandalgarius who leaves his mark here beneath a crowned lawgiver:

"Uandalgarius fecit hec"

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731; Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum; 793 CE; Lyon; p.234
(www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

25.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 63    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

Looks interesting! Is this out now? I can’t seem to access it on Brepols yet..

05.04.2025 08:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How's 2025 going?

"Oh, you know, it's going"

07.03.2025 16:02 — 👍 3038    🔁 407    💬 69    📌 28
A Greek vessel with an owl with helmet, shield, and a lance

A Greek vessel with an owl with helmet, shield, and a lance

For #SuperbOwlSunday a.gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

Photo: Louvre, Paris

09.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 912    🔁 210    💬 15    📌 14
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Whenever you're trying to study, there's always some fool in a wheelbarrow making a noise.

BL Harley MS 3487; Aristotle, Libri naturales; 13th century; England; f.22v

15.12.2024 20:44 — 👍 101    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 2
a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.

a medieval drawing of a dog standing upright wearing a hood and holding a bottle. beside him is a cat laying in bed wearing what looks like a nightcap. both have distraught expressions on their faces.

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century

22.11.2024 22:32 — 👍 9516    🔁 1420    💬 122    📌 111

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