Richard III Society of Canada

Restaurant Survey In one of my classes at school we are creating a restaurant as part of a marketing plan. The purpose of this survey is to gather data on what is popular in the community. The survey helps determine wh...

Child 1 has a marketing project about restaurants and needs 300 survey responses. She can't earn higher than 70% if she doesn't reach the target. Seems unfair - some kids just don't have as many friends/family! Could you take 2 min to take the survey? Due in 2 days and she needs 100 more. Thanks!

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Thank you! There’s one more chance to join us live in Toronto this Wednesday.

More details here: www.canadianmedievalists.org/The-CSM-Onli...

A blue term card with a manuscript banner at the top. It lists the times & dates of seminars for the winter term - includes link to register for them bit.ly/londonmedieval

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A new year has begun for the Richard III Society of Canada aka the Canadian Branch. But it isn't too late to join! See www.richardiii.ca/general-memb... for details

Finally detailed mixed media illustration of a view looking down into the Severn Valley and up towards Ludlow Castle, surrounded by autumn trees

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘Ludlow Castle’ (Readers Digest magazine)
Artist: SR Badmin

We are looking forward to our AGM on Saturday, 2 days after the start of the Society's new year. Oct 2nd is, of course, Richard III's birthday.

Image from The Book of Hours of Adélaïde de Savoie (Musée Condé 76, fol. 10v), c. 1460-1465

A full page from a medieval manuscript. On either side of the text are tall trees with people visibly picking fruit high up among the leaves. One woman is somehow pulling herself up the straight trunk. The fruit, apples perhaps, appear to be tossed down to the labourers below who are putting them in baskets. One woman has her hand in front of her face. Either she is eating or she has been hit on the nose with some fruit as it came down from the tree.

One of October's Labour of the Month was harvesting fruit. This lovely image deserves to be seen in full, especially for the woman shimmying up the tree.

Blue Jays all the way!

But all in person, right? We are used to not be able to party afterwards but hearing the talks would be nice. (Picture forlorn face here)

programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30 17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys 31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters 28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods

PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.

All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

It was a fascinating talk. Thank you!

What an absolute joy to present the computational and codicological #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been compiling for nearly a year! Many thanks to the U. Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me. For those of you who missed it, I'll post the video link when it's available!

This will undoubtedly be wonderful. Hooray for the PLS.

“On big screwups” this practical text begins in a black script on white parchment, with a green I decorated with a fan-shaped descender highlighted with red

The earliest book in the update is a little English 12thc Rule of St. Benedict. It’s wee but has lovely initials! One of its sister manuscripts in Toronto includes a bit of the life of Cuthbert on a flyleaf, hinting at northern origins. www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/rul...

New address for the BL Digitised Manuscripts *BLOG* as of 30 Sept.; archive of older posts to be available later at the new site.
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

I hope they actually mean it about making the archive available.

#medievalsky

Image from a manuscript. Two men in chains kneel in front of a woman who is surrounded by courtiers. She wears an elaborate late 15th C outfit.

These two miscreants didn't renew their membership in the Richard III Society by October 2. Luckily for the rest of us, there's still time! See www.richardiii.ca/general-memb... on how to join the Cdn Branch.
Image: Ms. Ludwig XIII 6, leaf 12 (83.MP.149.12.recto)

Alt text for the Tiles - a photograph of 3-4 rows of tiles coming down to a corner and continuing to the right. Grass can be seen on the right so it is clearly outside.

Some lovely 14/15th C tiles from Haughmond Abbey, sent to us by @tbryce1485.bsky.social for #TilesOnTuesday

St Mary’s Astley, Warwickshire
3 alabaster effigies now grouped together: Sir Edward Grey, (d.1457) his son’s wife, Elizabeth Talbot d 1483, (d.1483) Cecily Bonville, 2nd wife of Thomas Grey, eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville (d.1529)

#MonumentsMonday

Good to see you over here!

Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions

#MedievalMSS

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The image shows the first page of Katherine Allen Smith’s article called “why did medieval monks sew?”. Beneath the title is the abstract, which say this: Building upon numerous recent studies of medieval religious women’s textile production, this essay explores sewing practices among religious men. From Late Antiquity through the Central Middle Ages, monastic regulators, hagiographers, and homilists promoted stitching as a fitting activity for religious men and women alike, but ascribed different meanings to this work depending on the gender of practitioners. For religious men, sewing was a demonstration of humility, poverty, and simplicity which signalled their rejection of a lay masculinity that coded stitchery as feminine. More broadly, sewing-related metaphors, exempla and miracles evoked a monastic world in which the spiritual and domestic intermingled, so that needles and thread could be understood as both practical tools and symbols of virtue.”

Next week, students in my medieval survey course @viuniversity.bsky.social will be discussing Katherine Allen Smith’s fantastic article “Why did medieval monks sew?” If you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s superb.

How soon is soon? I know some websites that have hidden links to useful manuscripts or images, but we don't want to keep checking if nothing new is yet back.

K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals

K-12 Updates and Call for Proposals
The Medieval Academy’s K-12 Committee is testing ways to best engage with K-12 educators. We are currently developing two modes of engagement.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/k-12-updates...

Thank you, yes, that is why we asked.

Given all that space around the text, do you suppose a border had been originally intended?