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Couverture du livre de Patrick Geary, Comment la génétique réécrit l'histoire du Moyen Âge
Que peut apporter l'ADN à l'histoire ?
C'est à cette question que répond Patrick Geary dans ce bref ouvrage paru chez @cnrseditions.bsky.social.
Au menu : quelques renseignements, beaucoup de questions, une bonne dose de prudence. Un fil ⬇️ #medievalists #medievalsky
The Nativity in Ethiopian style
The Morgan Library, MS M.828; Zir Ganela Gospels; 1400 CE-1401 CE; Ethiopia; f.7v
Something for the season
BL Add MS 37472, f.1r
The animals in this nativity scene seemed to be more focused on the food than on the Christ child.
#Nativity
BL Egerton 3028; Wace, Roman de Brut, a verse epitome; England; 14th century; f.2r
The Nativity
#Nativity
BL Or 510; The Four Gospels; 1664 CE-1665 CE; Gondar, Ethiopia; f.8v
The Nativity and Shepherds
#Nativity
BnF MS Latin 9438; Missel de Limoges; 12th century; f.19v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
On the left panel (the two panels are hinged together, and there are paintings on the exterior panels as well), the young King, sumptuously dressed, kneels in a barren landscape. He is accompanied by three saints: John the Baptist, carrying the Lamb of God; Edward the Confessor, holding a ring; and Edmund with the arrow of his martyrdom in his hand. The saints present the King to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child, shown on the right-hand panel. They stand in a flowery meadow surrounded by angels, one of whom carries a white standard with a red cross. The richness of the tempera paintwork, the meticulously stamped gilding and the refinement of detail is extraordinary. The infant Christ is wrapped in cloth of gold, and stippled within his halo is a crown of thorns and three nails – symbols of the Passion.
What’s #Christmas without the stunning Wilton Diptych? A rare surviving set of tempera panel paintings, a portable set made for the private use of Richard II, King of England from 1377 to 1399. The brilliant blue garments of the angels are painted with ultramarine, made from lapis lazuli. 🎄 1/
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Tintin magazine dated December 23, 1948. On the cover, Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, Professor Calculus, Thomson, and Thompson are kneeling in prayer before a Nativity scene set. There is a Christmas tree in the background.
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It's the last day of the Saturnalia festival. Io, io! 🌟🌟
December 23 was a day of gift-giving when candles and small clay or wax figurines (sigillariae) were exchanged.
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#Saturnalia 🪔
1e victoire obtenue en référé par l'association Blaise Pascal ce mardi (vente Christies mercredi) : suspension par la justice de l'autorisation de sortie du territoire de la #pascaline 🙌 paris.tribunal-administratif.fr/decisions-de...
18.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Scribe at work wearing rather dainty red shoes
MS Ff.1.27; f.315 @camdiglib.bsky.social
What a desk!
#writingdesk
BnF MS Français 17211; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, French translation by Claude de Seyssel, volume 1; early 16th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
A press release from the University of Bristol about an exciting new article by @benpohl.bsky.social and published by Historical Research: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
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#MosaicMonday - Detail of a Roman floor mosaic with a glass bottle protected by a sheath of straw, and a glass cup. From Thysdrus (El Jem), dated to the 3rd century AD.
National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.
Affiche de l'exposition "Le Moyen Âge du 19e siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux" du 7 octobre 2025 au 11 janvier 2026 au musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge à Paris
Retrouvez ces deux bustes-reliquaires jusqu’au 11 janvier dans l’exposition "Le Moyen Âge du 19e siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux".
En savoir plus 👉 www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/ex...
Et l’œuvre originale ? Après avoir été vendue par le curé de Soudeilles au marchand londonien Henri James Duveen, elle est achetée par le collectionneur américain John Pierpont Morgan. Il la rend à la France et la donne au musée du Louvre en 1911. La copie quant à elle regagne l’église en 1913.
16.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Vitrine d'exposition présentant au premier plan le buste-reliquaire de saint Martin et à l'arrière sa copie
L’affaire de Soudeilles 🕵️♂️
Soudeilles, 1910. Le maire de la commune et le député de la Corrèze décident de vendre le buste-reliquaire de saint Martin. Mais l’œuvre originale a disparu et a été remplacée par une copie…
Que s’est-il passé ? Suivez-nous dans cette enquête. ⤵
I love the identical maenads in both of the Dionysian frescoes below - the one on the left is from the Villa dei Misteri (my bad shot, since we couldn't see it at the right angle, and it was in the dark), the right from the House of the Thiasus. More evidence for ancient pattern books, I think. 🏺
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Jusqu’au 11/01, le @museecluny.bsky.social présente l’exposition «Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux». L’exposition propose des confrontations entre objets médiévaux et leurs réinterprétations du XIXᵉ siècle.
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Dice players fresco from the Osteria della Via di Mercurio (VI 10,1.19, room b), in situ wall fresco, Pompeii.
During the #Saturnalia festival, all gambling laws were relaxed, and everyone could partake in games at their leisure and openly in public. Children used nuts as gambling tokens. 🎲
17.12.2025 19:06 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Fresco showing guests at a banquet, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii, AD 40-79. This fresco shows men and women reclining together on couches, as slaves serve them. One guest says in Latin, “FACITIS VOBIS SUAVITER EGO CANTO” – “Get yourselves comfortable, I am going to sing”. Another replies “EST ITA VALEAS” – “Yes, you go for it!”.
An ancient Roman dice.
On the first day of the #Saturnalia festival, a Princeps Saturnalia was appointed among the household by throwing the dice. The King of Saturnalia presided over and commanded people to do things such as preparing a banquet or singing a song. 🪔
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Io Saturnalia!🌟🪔
"Long awaited, the seven Saturnalia are now at hand." Macrobius
#Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Saturn, beginning on December 17. It was a time of feasting, drinking, games, gift-giving, and role reversal.
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The Men Who Fought with King Harold at Hastings www.medievalists.net/2025/10/the-... #militaryhistory
17.12.2025 20:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete arstechnica.com/science/2025... Via @romanhistory1.bsky.social
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Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made for a Monastic Dining Hall? www.medievalists.net/2025/12/baye... #BayeuxTapestry #Medieval #history
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Painting depicting two men wearing white robes and black hats (Niccolò and Maffeo Polo) kneeling before a man in a white robe and pointed golden hat (Kublai Khan), being handed a gold laissez-passer from a man in a white robe and white pointed hat. Public Domain.
Kublai Khan renamed his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán) #OnThisDay in AD 1271, officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, the father and uncle of Marco Polo, visited his court at Khanbaliq (modern Beijing) 1/2
🏺 #Archaeology
Un peu d’art romain avec les décors conservés de la maison d’Auguste à Rome
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Bearded man sitting at a sloping desk, under an arch that forms part of the capital letter A. He is dressed in an archbishop's mitre, light pink chasuble with pall, green dalmatic, and alb. Background is decorated with gold. Image taken from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 200, f. 1r that contains Baldwin of Ford's text on the Sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris).
Monday mood
Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)
CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
It's the third day of the Saturnalia festival. Io, io! 🪔
Drinking and being drunk in public was an important part of the festival. These 4th-century AD Roman glass cage-cups bear the inscription BIBE VIVAS MULTIS ANNIS - 'Drink and live many years!' 🍷
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The artwork "King Meeting Demon Warriors" depicts a ruler on horseback encountering a group of mythical demon figures, rendered in a linear style likely reflecting traditional storytelling practices. The scene, part of the Brooklyn Museum's Asian Art collection, captures the dynamic interplay between human and supernatural realms in classical Asian narratives.
King Meeting Demon Warriors https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/107636
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