Kathleen Walker-Meikle @Medieval_Badger
Historian. Writes on medieval and early modern animals & medicine. Books: Medieval Pets, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts, Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts & many more! Planet Earth Joined February 2017-
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For all my dog-loving followers: A stunning #Greek rhyton (drinking cup) in the shape of a #dog's head. Dating ca. 475 BC. Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia #DontShootYourDogInAGravelPit
This is possibly the oldest illuminated manuscript at the British Library Papyrus 3053, dating sometime between the 3rd and 6th century CE, shows a scene from the arena, with a bear and the legs of an acrobat blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
Touching self-portrait as a #seaknight of Adriaen #Coenen (1577-1579) - Dutch fishmonger, amateur #ichthyologist and admirer of the sea galerij.kb.nl/kb.html#/nl/vi… (see also: Egmond, Whale Book (2203), p. v)
This one takes the biscuit, St George! I've seen bigger meerkats than this teensy little green lizard (British Library Ms Harley 2952, f.21) #StGeorgesDay #StopBullyingBabyDragons
St George still slaughtering petite pathetic pleading dragons, like this little green one rolling on its back and begging to be left alone (@MorganLibrary ms M.421 f. 23v) #StGeorgesDay
Illustration of carrier pigeons taken aboard the Prince Albert, a relief ship sent in search of the Lost Franklin Expedition, May 1851 (courtesy of The London Illustrated News)
St George and the dragon, from a book of magic spells and incantations written in Syriac (Northern Iraq?, 18th century?). Given to @theULSpecColl in 1891 by University Librarian Francis Jenkinson. MS Add. 3086. #StGeorgesDay #StGeorge
Mierenegel, tachyglossus aculeatus, naar het leven getekend door August le Gras, 22 april 1897, Archief Artis/Stadsarchief
Brave St George defeats a pug
To add to the "St George bullying pathetic dragons" collection. Look at this obese blue dragon's sad little face!
To add to the "St George bullying pathetic dragons" collection. Look at this obese blue dragon's sad little face!
@Medieval_Badger The supporters in the armorial achievement of Teddy Evans (Baron Mountevans, of Chelsea in the County of London) and his successors are penguins!
Today is St George’s Day, the patron saint of England, so here is a magnificent wall painting of George fighting the dragon. From Pickering Church depicting, North Yorkshire, dating to around 1470. I shall nod to the bluebells today.
Penguin heraldry!
St George harassing another dachshund. For shame!
St George harassing another dachshund. For shame!
Slow clap to St George for the incredibly achievement of defeating this sad rouge dachshund dragon. Society for the Protection of Clearly Pathetic and Defenceless Dragons has more work to do! @britishlibrary MS Royal 19 B XVII, f. 109r #StGeorgesDay
#StGeorgesDay The Society for the Protection of Clearly Pathetic and Defenceless Dragons really object to this kind of behaviour from St George @bodleianlibs MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 11 f. 44v #DragonsofTwitter
Two rams butting heads together for this week's cartoon. This is from a grammar text dated to the 13th century copied in France. It is Petrus Helias' Summary of Priscian. Petrus was from Poitiers and lived in the 12th century. Priscian lived in the early 6thC. (WCL F99 95v)
From Libia to Ingolstadt: In 1558, the Italian Jheronyme Mantaner liberated the city of Libia from a plague of #crocodiles. One of these animals was taxidermied and exhibited in Germany by the showman Salvator Flaminio in 1564 (according to the #leaflet) e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/content…
Hungry mouse (@MagdLibAndArch MS. lat. 201).
Celebrating the start of Passover tonight with this fabulous dancing bear from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible! 🐻🎉 @bodleianlibs MS. Kennicott 1, f. 95r
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Alice Thornton's Book.. @thornton_books
1K Followers 1K Following @ahrcpress project: digital edn of books of Alice Thornton (1626-1707). Tweets by @CordeliaBeattie @hagenilda and @EleanorJThom. See https://t.co/g49DAWdYiU
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Surprised Eel Histori.. @greenleejw
36K Followers 270 Following Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of Medieval History. Talkin' 'bout eels, maps, my kids & my dog. Maps on commission: https://t.co/ZmGIhKXK52
Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung
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Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn
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@mssprovenance@mastod.. @mssprovenance
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Charles West @Pseudo_Isidore
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Monica H Green, PhD #.. @monicaMedHist
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Sarah Blick @SarahBlick3
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Prof Dolly Jørgensen @DollyJorgensen
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Sophie Bacchus-Waterm.. @sophiebwaterman
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Dr Fi Bowler @FionaBowler
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Military Pigeons @MilitaryPigeons
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Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse
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Alice Thornton's Book.. @thornton_books
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Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery
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Sobibor Foundation - .. @Sticht_Sobibor
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Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly
91K Followers 6K Following Avid book collector/Dreamer/MA Student (Half-English / Half-Greek) Posts: Archaeology/Ancient History/Classics🏺🏛 Expect typos and photos of sheep 😊🐑The ‘Corbridge Lion’ from Corbridge Roman Town, near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Originally made to decorate the top of a mausoleum, the sculpture was later re-cycled and used as a spout for a large fountain. On display in the site museum. #RomanSiteSaturday 📸 My own.
Women messing with men's heads du jour: Revenge of Tomyris, whose dog is distressingly attracted to human blood. K. Noem would shoot that pooch! Attributed to Robert Campin.
This #WorldPenguinDay, say hello to these characterful little fellows, the crested penguin and gentoo penguin. They are from our copy of La Galerie des Oiseaux (1825), by Louis Pierre Vieillot, with illustrations by Paul Louis Oudart.
Went to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul today and it was dazzling, but I ended up taking a hundred photos of the mosque cat instead
Goat playing the violin BL Royal 12 G V; f.16v
I can hear Ennio Morricone’s theme tune for ‘The Good, Bad, and the Ugly’ when looking at this medieval rider heading off into the margins! His horse even grabs a snack 🤠🐴 @bodleianlibs MS. Laud Lat. 84, f. 269r
You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for @HistoryExtra, but here's an excerpt!
@Medieval_Badger I've always felt sorry for him too! He's smaller than the horse, for goodness sake! What harm could he do?
An extraordinary wall painting from c.1400 of St George in full armour, slaying a dragon. Uncovered in 2008 in St John's Church, #Mechelen, this rare survival would have been known to a young #AnneBoleyn when she resided at the court of Margaret of Austria. Simply breathtaking.
Anthropomorphic Japan #1 (The Frogs) is now available
Bitter herbs #Passover2024 BL Or 1404; 'Brother Haggadah'; 1350 CE-1374 CE; Spain NE (Catalonia); f.18r @BLAsia_Africa @BL_HebrewMSS
Two men playing chess, with dog, 1590. By Ludovico Carracci, whose birthday we have been celebrating today.
Baking #matzah in hiding in the Lodz ghetto, 1943 View more photos of #Passover during the Holocaust >> ow.ly/FLJk50Iz7tB
Payment for two carts from the Tower of London taking boiled leather horse armour from the workshop of Niccolo da Modena to Berwick for Lord Gray (E101/504), and how it faired at the battle of Pinkie according to the Diurnal of Occurrents
A series of early 14th century French illuminations depicting Reynard the Fox and Tybert the Cat – clever, foolish Tybert, who loses an eye & all his feline dignity through Reynard's effortless trickery. "Tybert scrambled out of that cursed hole and staggered from the farm…
This page from a Missal (c. 1300) does not look particularly interesting at first glance. On closer inspection, however, one notices beautiful details in the marginalia, such as a small dog being fed by a bird and a cat chasing a mouse. Berlin StB Ms. theol. lat. fol. 271,f. 202r
Chag sameach from this professor to all the Jewish students @Columbia who have been undergoing an ordeal. The absence of physical violence does NOT of itself make a " peaceful protest" not when there are annihilationist chants, swastikas, death threats. Chazak ve'ematz - and…
#MosaicMonday Met a friend yesterday who's moved to very near Brading Roman villa on Isle of Wight, so I've dug out photo from a while ago to celebrate: It has to be the enigmatic and wonderful chicken man mosaic. Think a visit may be called for.....
@AnneLouiseAvery Greeted by a fine fox (vos) on the guild house of the Haberdashers, Le Renard, in Grand-Place / Grote Markt in Brussels this morning; naturally you came to mind.
Why do participants at the Passover Seder dip & remove 16 drops of wine when mentioning the plagues in Egypt? The earliest explanations (c. 13th c.) make clear this is a kind of sympathetic magic: "[This custom] teaches us that we will not be injured [by the plagues]." 🧵 1/4
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