#otd 1274 Thomas Aquinas died. Since 1974 his bones rest again in the Couvent des Jacobins in Toulouse (under the altar slab). #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
"Few documents that survive from #medieval Europe were written by women or even dictated by women. Those that do are often formulaic, full of legal and religious language. Yet the wills and censuses that survive, and which I study, open a window into their lives and minds, even if not produced by women’s hands. These documents suggest that medieval women had at least some form of empowerment to define their lives – and deaths."
@yvonne Thanks for that interesting article by Prof Joëlle Rollo-Koster, which draws attention to the documentary treasures in store for a new generation of historians while perhaps understating the wealth of evidence accumulated by her own!
The will of one famously independent woman in medieval England is available in the original French with translation & analysis on the resource page at https://barnes1.net/FHGE/
"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."
#otd 1371 died Joan of Évreux, Queen of France. She was buried in Saint-Denis (bones), the Église des Cordeliers (heart) and in the Abbey of Maubuisson (entrails). The picture shows a detail of the tomb from Maubuisson. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
Mein Belegexemplar ist auf einen anderen Kontinent, daher digitale Abbilder: Ich freue mich, dass ich mit Überlegungen zu den Toden Heinrich Raspes und König Wilhelms zu diesem schönen Sammelband beitragen konnte (Ein♥️ für die Underdogs!). #medieval@medievodons
#otd 1356 Johann Klingenberg died. The brass plate that adorned his grave in St. Peter's Church in Lübeck was destroyed in 1942. A drawing from 1853 shows what was lost. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
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Today my students and I are on our way to beautiful #Vercelli and #Verona for our annual week-long spring school! We’re working with some amazing #medieval#manuscripts there (including the Vercelli Book!), but also with modern technologies like #multispectral imaging and endoscopy. I’ll try to post images of some of our activities using #Vercelli2024. But first - 11 hours on the train…
#otd 1316 died Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert ,the Bruce' and mother of Robert II of Scotland. She was buried in Paisley Abbey. #medievaldeath#Medieval@medievodons
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