This lead plaque is on display in Evesham Museum & is said to have been found in the coffin of Aelfric, Abbot c. 995-1002. Does anyone here know any more about it?

Tonight: Kassia - a great female poet and composer of Byzantium - is remembered again by her famous composition

Here is an early copy from 1200 Bodleian Libraries

For more - see blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Seal of Joan de Stuteville, c.1265-75, Cotton Ch XXIX 63. Haven't seen many equestrian seals for women before. #medievaltwitter #hiddencollections

If you're not ready for marriage, then you shouldn't even be thinking about dating Beowulf

Preparations are moving fast for our major exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, opening 25 Oct

Learn about their daily lives, achievements and challenges, drawing on their own books and documents

We'll let you know here when tickets go on sale
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Today is the feast day of St Guthlac who died 1,310 years ago.
Here he is being tormented by devils at his hermitage in Crowland.
We didn't encounter any mischievous imps during our excavations at the site, but there was plenty of exciting archaeology! 👇
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Fantastic news: our work on the Bodleian Libraries 'Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse' project is now complete with 94 manuscripts fully digitised and available to view on the Digital Bodleian site! 🥳📜

Check out the project page for more:
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/ma…

Only two weeks until 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 850-1000 appears in print (the ebook is already available). It's currently 20% off for anyone interested in tenth-century English queens and the development of queenly office.

routledge.com/Early-English-…

My book'snout now! 🐽

The Medieval Pig examines pigs in medieval Europe - as part of the countryside, in the cityscape, and on the plate. But what was the pig's place?

Buy your own copy and recommend it to your local library.
boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651689/…

#envhist #envhum

Happy Harrowing Saturday to all who observe!!

Enjoy this jumbo Jesus yoinking Adam, Eve, the patriarchs and prophets out of hell almost 2,000 Easter weekends ago! The Gospel of Nicodemus reports that these are the few delivered from hell before Easter.

Here we go again: the memory of the revelation of a heavenly recipe #OTD

For details, see: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

We all love lists - look at this from 1800 years ago Bodleian Libraries

-statue of emperor
-of empress no dedication, object too old
-of Demeter, Parian marble
-golden lamps with stones
-child armlets + child ring

Objects at a Temple on Broad street, no not in Oxford, Oxyrhynchos

Our medieval woman to celebrate today, in the run up to #InternationalWomensDay2024 , is Empress Matilda (d. 1167), the daughter of King Henry I.

Here is her charter re-founding Bordesley Abbey in 1141-42, affixed with Matilda's seal enclosed in its own silk seal bag.

Celebrate LGBT+ History Month with my video tour of the St Peter's College JWM Collection of the artworks of artist Duncan Grant and queer love in the Bloomsbury Group! 🌈🎨

spc.ox.ac.uk/about/duncan-g…

Just in case there’s any doubt, never wear nail varnish when looking at manuscripts,

Note the small indent at the top of the outer circle, created by a chain or handle used to carry the seal.

Do you remember your basics in geometry?
'Two parallel lines never meet...'

Did you know they come from Euclid (300BC)?

Thankfully, Archbishop Arethas purchased this copy Bodleian Libraries 1136 years ago from which many others derive.

medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manusc…

'I am afraide of printers. Theire tyrannie is terrible.' John Jewel to Matthew Parker, 2 May 1568. MS 114A The Parker Library. Is this called typophobia?

Just Bark Ruffalo chilling at the BAFTAs 🐶

📜 Stowe MS 17

Now online! The hugely enjoyable whistle stop tour from birth to mummy by Bodleian Libraries curator Dr Peter Tóth #Egyptian Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book Oxford History of the Book Oxford Classics Outreach
youtu.be/yki-L1sIsHI