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actual crime that we never got to see arthur's dog
I totally believe arthur would name his favourite dog after some great warrior from camelot's glorious past but I'm keen to hear other theories
thanks @sapphicdragonlord for providing me with this little nugget of knowledge
can I interest you in some queer medieval loser teens?
a hot lady knight with biceps and principles? a sad, shy scholar who doesn’t want to be king? a chaotic lordling who turns everything into a joke so that people won’t notice how desperate he is for love? a princess who tells herself she’s ~not like other girls~ because she’s afraid?
they’re all gay! and you can read about them in GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE, my debut YA novel, out now in the UK/November 28th in the US.
a little blurb, if you’re hungry: Gwen and Art have been betrothed since birth and have hated each other for almost as long; when they’re forced to spend the summer together at Camelot ahead of their upcoming wedding, Gwen catches Arthur kissing a boy, and Arthur finds proof that Gwen has a crush on Lady Bridget, the kingdom’s only female knight. they make a reluctant pact to cover for each other (read: mutual blackmail), and as things heat up at the annual royal tournament, Gwen is swept off her feet by her knight and Arthur takes an interest in Gwen’s royal brother …
If you’re having trouble dealing with grief, try tearing at your hair and weeping on the ground. if you don’t have time for grief, then drive yourself into a violent rage. kill with reckless abandon, exact your bloody revenge
*having sex*
partner: how does that feel?
me [checking my mood ring]: uh… normal/cool
Fighting the "medieval people were dirty and smelly" narrative.
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, and eye shadow on the upper lid (usually a green, brown, or gray) was in fashion Medieval cosmetic treatises contain tons of recipes for both makeup and other enhancers like hair dye, teeth whiteners, wrinkle treatment, pimple reducers, and even methods for changing eye color. Burials from Anglo-Saxon England show that several types of beauty enhancers were regularly used, including combs, tweezers, & hair rings.
In the later Middle Ages, people often carried mirrors on them, with men keeping them in sword hilts or little silk bags & women in purses. Even as far back as the 7th c, Aldhelm criticized nuns for cutting their nails into the shape of talons 💅By the 14th c, women were criticized for over-plucking eyebrows. By the 12th c, men regularly waxed & curled their beards, even keeping them in beard bags while they slept.
Spices, oils, & woods could be used for perfumes, which were used at the court of Charlemagne in the 8th century & enjoyed popularity throughout the medieval period, with Crusaders even bringing home the practice of using rosewater for hand washing both before & after meals.
Turns out, medieval people cared about their appearances and hygiene just like people always have 🤷♀️
Image from @britishlibrary
Add MS 10293, fol. 266r (circa 1316)
Source: @LaceyBonarHull
Just adding that you can just say "England" instead of the anachronistic "Anglo-Saxon England".
Historians still use it to refer to the time period. Any modern societies and associations try to steer clear of the term for obvious negative connotative reasons. I don't use it. The above post is from Twitter, which I cited. @LaceyBonarHull so feel free to take it up with the PhD candidate on Twitter. As for myself, feel free to see my previous posts about it where I discuss the term
We haven't been able to get Cambridge to change the name of their press yet unfortunately--
I think we’ve started going with “early England” or “pre-Conquest England”. Not sure if an official replacement phrase has really solidified.
Note for non-specialists: this is a pretty recent shift. There’s been discourse around the terminology for a while, but it only really took hold on an institutional level within the last few years. As an illustration, a panel I was on at the medievalist conference in Kalamazoo used the term “Anglo-Saxon” when papers were being submitted but switched to “Early Medieval England” between then and the conference actually happening. This was in 2021. I think everyone generally agrees that dropping the term “Anglo-Saxon” is the right move, but institutional practice is slow to change so the change hasn’t fully settled in yet.
#remembering a book on gender in 13th c france and england that quoted a handful of writings#criticizing men’s fashion trends like carrying mirrors everywhere and constantly adjusting their hair#wearing perfumes and long draping sleeves and letting their hair grow long and brushing it#it was great things never change
aslkdfj I’m looking for that Beowulf syllabus that someone posted where they read something challenging the use of “Anglo-Saxon” in the first week but I can’t find it ANYWHERE. Did they just use the Mary Rambaran-Olm + Erik Wade Smithsonian article?
I’ve found a good peer reviewed article that would work, but it’s 20 pages long, and I don’t want to dump that on students on top of (nearly half) of Beowulf…will a shorter, not-peer-reviewed article still work?
I’ve assigned Mary Rambaran-Olm’s history workshop article/post, I thought it was a little more accessible for my Freshmen than a full on journal article: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/misnaming-the-medieval-rejecting-anglo-saxon-studies/
Oh hm yes this would work really well as well. Maybe I’ll give them this one and then provide a bibliography of sorts (including the journal article) for those who would want to read more
@jamiethekeener Mary Dockray-Miller has a pretty good JSTOR blog post about it here but I don’t know if it’s the one you’re thinking of. It’s short and accessible.
Here are some resources I’ve included in my syllabus
2016. Sierra Lomuto. “White Nationalism and the Ethics of Medieval Studies”, In the Middle. https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2016/12/white-nationalism-and-ethics-of.html
2017. Adam Miyashiro. “Decolonizing Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Response to ISAS in Honolulu”, In the Middle. https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2017/07/decolonizing-anglo-saxon-studies.html
2018. Mary Rambaran-Olm. “Anglo-Saxon Studies [Early English Studies], Academia and White Supremacy”, Medium. https://medium.com/@mrambaranolm/anglo-saxon-studies-academia-and-white-supremacy-17c87b360bf3
2019. Matthew Gabriele & Mary Rambaran-Olm. “The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. Here’s Why It’s So Important to Get Medieval History Right”, TIME. https://time.com/5734697/middle-ages-mistakes/
2020. David Wilton. “What Do We Mean by Anglo-Saxon? Pre-Conquest to the Present”, Journal of English and Germanic Philology. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766894 (This article is behind a paywall but Erik Wade gives a summary thread on Twitter.)
2021. Mary Rambaran-Olm & Erik Wade. “The Many Myths of the Term ‘Anglo-Saxon'”, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/many-myths-term-anglo-saxon-180978169/
Even more, separated by area of study listed here: https://mrambaranolm.medium.com/history-bites-resources-on-the-problematic-term-anglo-saxon-part-3-2f38919569f0
Anonymous asked:
Have you ever actually read the Bible? No, God did not "dare" anyone to kill a baby nor did he command such a thing. People will fabricate anything to criticize the Bible.
he said "rip that baby up" in a game show host voice, very distasteful
they've actually done it. like i know we were going insane over bisexual bard a while back but part of me didn't think they'd actually do it i thought they were clowning us again holy shit the bard is fucking bisexual
— Love poetry discovered by Archaeologists in Egypt from the New Kingdom period 3,300 years ago.
[TEXT ID: I shall lie down at home / and pretend to be dying. / Then the neighbors will all come in / to gape at me, and, perhaps, she will come / with them. / When she comes, I won't need a doctor, / she knows why I am ill. END ID]
“uwu it’s ok if you don’t want to read classics uwu reading should be fun!!!!” WRONG go work in the mines
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✨hot cockles✨
“The [carving] depicts a gathered collection of men and women tightly framed within three architectural niches. These courtly figures - some standing, one seated, another two on the floor - are playing a game known in the Middle Ages as Haute Coquille, 'Hot Cockles', or sometimes La Main Chaude, 'The Hot Hand', a jaunty name that masks a rather more sexualised pastime. To play, someone is blindfolded and then spanked.
In the British Museum ivory it is a young man who finds himself kneeling at the centre of the action, his head placed inside the folds of a seated woman's skirt so he cannot see. Despite the small size of the piece his outline is delicately rendered, ghostly beneath the cloth, and we get a sense of the game's erotic potential in the silhouette of his hand, creeping up the woman's left thigh. The act of spanking itself is prefigured in the raised right arms of the two women behind, their exaggerated hands poised to strike him in a pair of flat, slapping swings.
The game finished with the blindfolded figure guessing the identity of his or her slapper by the sting of their spank alone. If they were correct, they would be rewarded with a kiss, as shown at the ivory's upper-right, where a victorious couple quietly smooch among the arches.”
Reference: Hartnell, Jack. (2019). Medieval Bodies; Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages. Gomer Press, Wales. Pages 181-182.
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Sexual themes
This image is from Le Roman de Saint Fanuel, a medieval French poem. In the poem, Saint Fanuel, a cis gender man, accidentally gets pregnant from a magic apple. The apples are from a magic tree that and they cure the sick. Fanuel wipes the juice from a cut apple on his thigh.
He gives birth to Saint Anne. (The Virgin Mary’s mother and Jesus Christ’s grandmother.) The poem is not biblically canon.
In this medieval depiction of Saint Fanuel, you can see that he has breasts and a baby bump. In the poem he is not particularly happy about his pregnancy. Funnily enough, the tree that grew the apple is Fanuel’s own father. (It’s a magic tree that just impregnates people apparently.) Pregnant Saint Fanuel giving out magic apples to cure the sick
MS Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum 20 f.4r
Source: The Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum
Kay being a bitch even at the age of 12 ❤️