Medieval manuscripts: 🍑💨 ✝️✝️✝️✝️ 🐌 ✝️✝️✝️✝️ 🐱 🐌 ✝️✝️✝️✝️ 👹 ✝️✝️✝️✝️ 🐉 🍆💦

Thought experiment thread! I want to consider whether the famous medieval images of detached phalluses--often being gathered by nuns--might not be meant to represent flesh-and-blood penises. Could these be depictions of dildos? (BnF, Français 25526, f. 106v) #MedievalTwitter

Happy Commemorative Day to Margery Kempe! Kempe was never sainted but she’s commemorated in the Church of England Calendar on 9th November each year. Am weeping with joy. #TeamMargery!

Humanities friends, stop using Google Maps screenshots in your presentations! Thanks to Technology™ it's easy and free to make maps from scratch that look professional (or at least professional enough), even with my level of extremely limited technical skills. A tutorial thread!

The Wexford Carol. Dating back to the 12th century, this is the oldest Irish Christmas song still sung today. Join me here each day between now and Christmas for more Irish festive music 🎄

One of my favourite illuminations! I actually put it in my master's thesis because more people need to see it

The chart to end all charts. A scientific analysis of history, based just on data. We started this millennium with a good capital of history but it was all squandered in 476. The levels of history raise a bit thanks to Charlemagne but do not really recover until the Renaissance.

Very excited to be part of one of them!

By the age of 30 every medievalist should have: - a simmering grudge against a long-dead editor - strong opinions about normalised orthography - a folder full of memes even you think are too niche - that one manuscript you secretly consider 'yours'

I’m co-guest-editing a special issue of ‘Religions’ with Katherine Zieman! #CFP ‘Visionary and Contemplative Practice in the Medieval World’ send us your queries anytime; abstracts due 15 August.

Gotta catch 'em all! Seems like a reasonable and realistic goal to me.

Welcome to Cerquiglini café

Tonight the wonderful Sander Vloebergs will be performing at #IMC2022 in combination with MysticalTheologyNet as a conclusion to their panel series and a celebration of #mysticism and dance. Join us at Stage 2 at 19h. IMC_Leeds

The finished result of Tanya Bentham's #imc2022 workshop, my murder bunny! It turned much better than I would have thought thanks to Tanya's expert guidance ❤️🐇🪓

Really the main reason to study Latin

I think I'm going to judge this book by its cover 🔥🔥🔥

För den som gillar medeltiden, mystik eller historia kommer här tipset om höstens mest spännande kurs i Stockholm: den som jag kommer att hålla på Folkuniversitetet! Det finns några platser kvar, anmäl er snart så drar vi igång 26/9! bit.ly/3wMecmj

Ooohh I love this!

The Angela-of-Foligno Research Team (Ruusbroec Institute FWO) having a great time at the IMC_Leeds. John Arblaster Verena Puth