Kate Franklin

the whole thing is gorgeous 🐟🐠🐟

that image has pretty clearly been retouched by a later artist, which adds to its uncannyness, but its still amazing !

of course! portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...

paging through the splendid digitization of the early 12th c
Vita et miracula s. Quintini-- struck of course by the ecological sensibility of the body feeding the fish
(Ms. Basilique Saint-Quentin 1 f. 67r)

today has been a deep dive into the 19th c genre of ornamental grammars, woooo
Racinet, Dolmetsch

The University of Toronto copy of Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament has a stain from a leaf pressed in it--- who can identify the leaf? amazing

dreaming of springtime and blossoms (and jackalfriends) today; Kalila wa Dimna, Bodleian Pococke 400 f64b

its not everyday that one types 'read up on nunsploitation as a genre' into a peer review

archive photo: dawn entrance to piazza san marco at high tide, 2011

I want this tawny sky and to be paddling in this turtle pool

The gazalle makes friends, Kalila wa Dimna, 16th c
MetMuseum 1981.373.61

found in the files today--Chiangmai elephants, 2017

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ca...

kid in the middle ages seeing a dead body dug up:

the metal macpherson motto on this ex libris in Bede's Vita Cuthberti... also, youre not the boss of me i touch the cat

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look war is bad and plunder is also bad but if i was a marauding Pisan in the 12th c i would not be able to leave this chonkster behind, no court in the land etc etc

chomp

(Xigoupan, tomb M2, 4-3rd c BC)

Caspar David Friedrich 1824// Guillermo del Toro 2025

one has not really read The Nature of the Gothic until one has read it typeset by William Morris

Christology and Nature: An Indigenous Armenian Eco-Theology? Lecture by Dr. Christopher Sheklian In the past decades, a sophisticated discourse of environmental or eco-theology has emerged across Chri...

and this amazing zoom talk tomorrow!

events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/3...

Zoom event: Forging the Armenian Crown by Armen Abkarian Given the university's pivot to Zoom on 26 January, we have decided to hold Armen Abkarian's talk

!!! Due to snow this great talk today is now on zoom!

mesaas.columbia.edu/events/forgi...

Ara Harutyunyan working on the now-dispersed Banvori Ardzan (Worker Statue)- which still gives its name to an intersection and bus stop, confusing young dumb archaeologists trying to catch a bus to Vayots Dzor back in the day...

Notable Sandwiches #135: Patty Melt Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where David and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches, in alphabetical order. This...

I wrote about the patty melt, about not fitting into molds, and about the pain & joy of a life that doesn't fit a predetermined menu: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I want this to be Layla and Majnun so bad

a medieval illumination depicting the tetramorph of ezekiel i: a luminous orb hovers over a rocky landscape. above the orb, fanning the air into gusts of white paint on blue, a winged creature with 4 faces: angel, ox, eagle, and lion; the wings are covered in eyes, the firmament above burns molten

the tetramorph shimmering in the air, from Rylands Library MS Latin 30 f 123r

sharing the delight of the textile details from ROM
www.artoftheancestors.com/blog/the-clo...

I had a brain glitch! This talk is in MESAAS of course, not History :)

Woven Worlds: Patterns in Textiles, Manuscripts, and Monuments in Armenian Visual and Material Culture “Armenian visual culture is represented in diverse materials that carry pattern, repetition, and memory...”

beautiful work from Ani Shahinian!
hmml.org/stories/seri...

NYC- colleagues and friends! I'll be in the Columbia History Dept on 20 February to talk about ongoing work on relics, ruins, and rocky landscapes in medieval Vayots Dzor--come join!
6pm 208 Knox Hall

16 | 2025 Objects of Thought This special issue of Études arméniennes contemporaines puts forth a lens of material objects and materiality in the examination of experiences and subjectivities in Armenia or the Diaspora from t...

so excited that this fabulous issue of <Études arméniennes contemporaines> is finally out in the world. my weird little interview is some unguarded + chaotic thoughts on materiality, on archaeology, and on making medieval things---
journals.openedition.org/eac/3552