@aaronm@bookhistodons@medievodons Heroic effort on the alt-text. Now I’m trying to figure out why one of the heads doesn’t have a crown. The idea that it’s an allegory for social inequality seems far-fetched. 😀
#Otd 1346 John (‘the blind’) of Bohemia died. He was first buried in Altmünster Abbey in Luxembourg, but his remains made an adventurous journey over the centuries. Since 1945 they lie in the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons Pic.: WC
@dailymedievaldeath@medievodons@histodons thanks for providing this stunning material, the year of the transposition of the mortal remains to Luxembourg City still has to be confirmed. It is mostly associated with a 600th anniversary of John’s death (Crécy) in August 1946.
John the Blind was an interesting guy. Patron of Guillaume de Machaut, the composer, he was also quite hepped up on ideas of chivalry. Which is how he came to die at Crecy, of course: he had a dozen of his men tie the horses together with his and they all rode off into battle.
The next day, Machaut was looking for a new patron…
Zeilinger, Gabriel, Verhandelte Stadt: Herrschaft und Gemeinde in der frühen Urbanisierung des Oberelsass vom 12. bis 14. Jahrhundert (Mittelalter-Forschungen 60), Ostfildern 2018.
@manuel_kamenzin@medievodons und das Buch zur #Urbanisierung im #Elsass ist wirklich äußerst empfehlens- und lesenswert. Vor allem, da hier auch in die kleineren Städte einer (später) sehr stark urbanisierten Region geschaut wird. Bleibt zu hoffen, dass zum Elsass noch weitere ähnliche und vor allem ins 15. Jahrhundert schauende Arbeiten entstehen werden.
Medievalists: You see, Thomas Aquinas' ideas were so complex and revolutionary that he couldn't slow down to write clearly. That's why his handwriting is notoriously terrible
Humanists: So his bad handwriting means his ideas are the best?
M: Yup!
H: So just below Pico della Mirandola.... 😎 #Medievodons@medievodons#Medieval
(From #Vatican Ott.lat.607 f.1r)
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In my opinion, Pico’s writing is easier to read than Aquinas’. It has been seriously argued that the distinctive characteristics of Aquinas’ hand indicate that he was left-handed…
Merciful in the face of death: #otd 1075 Anno II of Cologne died. Shortly before his death, he lifted the ban on the rebels in his city. His bones can be found today in the Anno shrine in the Michaelsberg Abbey Church. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Teaching #palaeography means I keep discovering new manuscripts week to week - like this gorgeous eleventh-century one from Italy, written in Beneventan script.
Am loving Booksnake (https://tally.so/r/3qGPkY), a new app - currently in beta testing - for viewing #IIIF-enabled original documents as if they were virtually lying on a surface of your choice.
Here is the #Psalter of Queen Isabella of England (https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667782/#) from the Library of Congress. I was very pleased that I could leaf through the book while it was lying there, and zoom in/out! @medievodons@histodons
This looks very cool. I'd love to know if it'll be fully open source -- the NEH grant seems to imply that it will at least be partially opened up (https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HAA-287859-22), but then they say "patent pending" on the website, which is typically incompatible with a wider open source release. I also didn't find a GitHub repo or anything like that.