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Can also highly recommend Chapelgarth!

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Le cochon dormant
Marcu de Bye, 1657. (Musée du Louvre)

Screenshot of text: He is an enemy to the Lions, wherefore as soon as ever a Lion seeth a unicorn, he runneth to a tree for succor, that so when the unicorn maketh force at him, he may not only avoid his horn, but also destroy him; for the unicorn in the swiftnes of his course runneth against the tree wherein his sharp horn sticketh fast, then when the Lion seeth the unicorn fastened by the horn without all danger, he falleth upon him and killeth him. These things are reported by the king of Ethiopia, in an Hebrew Epistle unto the Bishop of Rome.

Never not thinking about the Wile E. Coyote slapstick of Lion vs. Unicorn

(Edward Topsell, Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes, 1607)

The Lark | Elemental Edition A poem by Hester Pulter (ca. 1605-1678) concerning the topics of larks, death, grief, and afterlife. Elemental Edition, edited by Leah Knight (Brock University) and Wendy Wall (Northwestern University...

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Imagine being Mr Pulter, like

Dearest wife, how goes the poetry?

Ok so there is a LARK & the LARK's NEST gets CHOPPED IN HALF by a mower & some of the CHICKS get CHOPPED IN HALF & others get BEHEADED and 1 CHICK gets MUTILATED but SURVIVES & is then DRAGGED ABOUT by the mower's son and then DIES.

This is a later version, 1670, of a print originally made around 1642-1646 to advertise the performances of the elephant 'Hansken' which was drawn by Rembrandt around 1637. (British Museum)

The Marmottane (Emblem 24) | Elemental Edition A poem by Hester Pulter (ca. 1605-1678) concerning the topics of conjugal love, domesticity, tyranny, and happiness. Elemental Edition, edited by Leah Knight (Brock University) and Wendy Wall (Northwe...

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Stop normalizing grind culture and normalize whatever this is

A cat in a book from 1663. The title of the book: "Parnassus Medicinalis Illustratus. Oder: Ein neues/ und dergestalt/ vormahln noch nie gesehenes Thier- Kräuter- Und Berg-Buch" (SUB Göttingen. Exemplar mit der Signatur: 4 MAT MED 42/3]).

Scowling at you since 1663, dear human reader.

#caturday #catcontent

Paws on Parchment: New Exhibition Highlights Cats in Medieval Manuscripts - Medievalists.net Explore how medieval people viewed and valued cats in “Paws on Parchment,” a new exhibition at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, featuring feline-themed manuscripts and rare pawprints left by a 15t...

I'm feeling vindicated in acknowledging my cats' opinions in my dissertation.

#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Cats #CatSky

Jan Jonston, An History of the Wonderful Things of Nature [...], 216/Dd4v (1657).

Honorable mention also to this section's title, "Of the Baboon and Chamaeleon".

Early modern printed book with a yellow highlight section which reads "Two things are most wonderful in him, that in the two equinoctials, 12 times a day he will make water, once every hour, and doth the same at night [...] Hence, the Egyptians have the picture of a Baboon pissing upon their Dials."

[Somewhere in Egypt, allegedly]

"What's the time?"

"Time you checked if the baboon has had a wee yet."

First time I've seen Dürer's rhino rampant!

John Swan, Speculum Mundi, 1635.

[Somewhere in C16 Americas]

New arrival: *sweating, furiously trying to tie 5 or 6 substantial and very angry winged bugs into a bundle* and you're definitely sure this is the best light source around here?

Local: *stifling laughter* yeah, absolutely, we have them in our house too, keep trying👍

Screenshot of a text-heavy word document that is covered in red lines underlining spelling errors.

Writing today and am thinking about the colleague who got frustrated when I didn't spot British-isms in copy because "the browser puts red lines under them".

I didn't know how to explain that when you work with certain literature for so long red lines become meaningless and completely ignorable...

This could not have dropped into my feed at a better time!

I'm in this post and I don't like it

The original Little Treat culture

The rarest of rare things has happened and I'm looking at an empty weekend to be filled with #writing, beginning as of this minute.

Tips for making sure the chapter writing happens, accountability and solidarity are all eagerly sought and welcomed.

I live in constant fear that one day the Literature Authorities will discover that I don't own a Daunt Books tote and I don't even know where the shop is.

Screenshot of a university title which reads "Beijing Normal University".

And if that's too aspirational, then you can always be realistic in your aims

Was a PhD researcher and a PhD researcher of literature at that, so I'm privileged enough to understand that words have meaning and you can't just be saying things like "Beyond is a conceptual destination" and expect people to take that seriously

Ned, am in the comms and internally retch every time I read these things when they are poorly executed. Fundamentally cannot take it seriously.

Hahaha this has me cackling

Doing this brand advertising on the front page is thoroughly artless. It's like doing an impression - if you have to tell people who you are impersonating, it's not a good impression. Likewise, if you have to *explain* your brand to people, it's not a good brand.

I would struggle to use this information productively and I literally work with these kinds of documents/guides daily. These are exactly the kinds of things I read when working in sales and had to learn marketing briefs.
They are a complete tonal clash with and inappropriate for academia. A fail.

This is rapid comms operating, respect