I'm doing a bit of reading on medieval cosmetic usage & thought I'd share a bit to dispel the "medieval people were dirty & smelly & didn't care for their bodies" narrative A more "natural" look was preferred in 13c Italy where a neutral base, pink rouge, black eyeliner, (1/6?)

Yes! This is one of the things that de-values humanities and hides racism, sexism, classism, and other problems in science--because science is "objective" and therefore unbiased.

I would like to let everyone know that even Avicenna struggled with Aristotle. #medievaltwitter

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posing as a mummy in Cairo, Egypt, 1894.

Giggle.

My Gen Z students not only quoted but imitated Columbo today.

WINTER FOLK COSTUMES It's #WinterSolstice & Europe loves its folk festivals. The winter wild man explores animal/human boundaries & testifies to our need for myth. Charles Fréger's photographs of winter folk costumes are a delight (beginning with Croatia below) #GothicAdvent

💬 Coloquio: "Un paisaje de #aromas y #perfumes: la seducción del #olfato según las fuentes y prácticas medievales y de la temprana modernidad" organizado por Julia Roumier y Gisela Coronado Schwindt 📅 28 y 29 de marzo en Université Bordeaux Montaigne y en línea Inscripción 👉 forms.gle/sWy1nRZJkrLYhD…

This photo is 113 years old. It was taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an early pioneer of colour photography. If you've ever wondered what the world used to look like, Prokudin-Gorsky's photos will show you...

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A late medieval pocket sundial from Freiburg. 🌞

The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Utah, June 23, 1939

Vancouver Daily World, British Columbia, June 27, 1921

Dr. Katelynn Robinson see Dr Katelynn Robinson's fantastic book The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages - A Sense of Certainty. We particularly loved the chapter 4: "Beware fetid air", and her important distinction on the relationship between fumes and odor. slowdown.media/article/dr-kat…

every time we bring up medieval medicine we have to mention bloodletting; what a dumb treatment, we think, modern medicine is evidence-based and would never do anything so ineffective and superstitious nope, we routinely choose superstition over evidence, for example-

After a catapult barrage failed to damage the walls of Dunbar Castle, Agnes is said to have ordered her ladies-in-waiting to dust the ramparts to ridicule the English and their failed assault. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…