@scottmanning.com.bsky.social
Author of Joan of Arc: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2023). Co-editor Cinema Medievalia (2024). Medievalism 🏰, film 🎥, astronomy 🪐, comics, Transformers 🤖, books 📚, antiquing, 🖊️, Star Wars 🚀. he/him https://linktr.ee/scottmanning
Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola’s signature
Donato Giancola’s Lord of the Rings cover
Fortunate to meet Donato Giancola this last weekend at the IX sci-fi/fantasy art show in Reading. He graciously signed my Lord of the Rings book.
30.10.2025 01:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a famous historian…before he tragically dies
As a teenager I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail in daily 30-min chunks over and over until I memorized every line. Today I’ve had an essay on the 13th-century Queste del saint Graal accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal.
11.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#cfp from the International Joan of Arc Society for Kalamazoo 2026. There are 2 panels and 1 roundtable. #medievalsky
www.joanofarcsociety.org/call-for-pap...
#cfp (Re)Visiting the Reel/Un-Reel Middle Ages: Pathways to Furthering Research on Medievalisms on Screen (Roundtable) (Virtual) at Kalamazoo 2026
www.academia.edu/143834155/20...
Staple
58 pages wow
26.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
staples
I am now the northeast pennsylvania distributor for staples
26.08.2025 15:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Staples and staplers
okay staples did not disappoint on the staple supply
26.08.2025 14:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0strongly considering stopping at staples to get some staples
26.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Welllll…a razor blade was involved to make that happen 😂
21.08.2025 12:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes! I modded them with parallel pilot pen nibs. Love the capacity of the M2
21.08.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Legend of Billie Jean
Pens
My fountain pens match Helen Slater’s wetsuit on The Legend of Billie Jean
21.08.2025 11:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Paperback book of Those Who Watch (1967) by Robert Silverberg
commute reading
🪐 📚 🛸
A coworker suffers from gout. A friend is in West Africa battling malaria and typhoid. What century is this?
05.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
American Dolls stamps
I need an honest assessment. Are these stamps creepy?
04.08.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0We’re thinking of naming him Manatawny Phil, which is the nearby creek.
08.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We think it’s a leucistic groundhog.
08.07.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
leucistic groundhog
leucistic groundhog
leucistic groundhog
leucistic groundhog
I was chillin outside and this little guy walked right up to me. He was startled when I talked to him, but he didn’t scamper off. We’ve left carrots for him.
08.07.2025 11:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Just a guy holding a baby snapping turtle
Baby snapping turtle
This is the second snapping turtle I’ve helped across the road in as many weeks.
04.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oberyn Martell with meme text “I WILL BE YOUR READER”
mrw my friend asks me to read their essay and not hold back
23.06.2025 12:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lancelot and Guinevere
Vivien and Merlin.
Arthurian images at the Morgan Library from the Julia Margaret Cameron exhibit. Lancelot and Guinevere, and Vivien and Merlin.
Albumen silver print, 1874
Bunny
Bunny
I encountered a ferocious beast near my house. Barely escaped with my life.
18.06.2025 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Joan of Arc equestrian statue in NYC
Joan of Arc equestrian statue in NYC
Joan of Arc equestrian statue in NYC
Joan of Arc equestrian statue in NYC
Anna Hyatt Huntington’s Joan of Arc bronze statue is still standing tall and proud in NYC 🗽. It is now 110 years old.
📷 mine
Screenshot of a page from a peer reviewed essay
This is the proper text to footnote ratio. Some may disagree but they would be wrong.
08.06.2025 19:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Emmanuel Frémiet’s Joan of Arc equestrian statue
In a hallway that connects Terminal A East and West at the Philly International Airport, there is a series of giant black and white photos of the city. Among them is Emmanuel Frémiet’s Joan of Arc equestrian statue.
04.06.2025 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Small statue of Joan of Arc holding a banner
Joan of Arc stands sentinel with banner after the yard has had a mow
02.06.2025 11:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Joan of Arc by Deborah McGrady
new joan of arc book just dropped
01.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Autobot Matrix of Leadership
Autobot Matrix of Leadership
I chromed the base of my Matrix stand and I’m quite happy with the results. #transformers
25.05.2025 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely to see Scott Manning, who contributed “Arthurian Legend and the Death of Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Movie (1986)" to the latest vol of Studies in Medievalism, at this year's Kalamazoo conference! #ICMS #kzoo2025 @scottmanning.com
09.05.2025 11:00 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Postcards
Finishing up the last of my #MaytheFourth greetings this year. #starwars
30.04.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
