A coffin for heart and entrails: #otd 1056 Emperor Henry III died. His body was buried in Speyer, the internal organs in Goslar, where they rest today in this stone coffin (13th c.). #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons@histodons
Matthias Meier: Gründung und Reform erinnern. Die Geschichte des Klosters Muri aus der Perspektive hochmittelalterlicher Quellen (Vorträge u. Forschungen. SB 61), Stuttgart 2020.
I’m halfway through this third book in the Mathew Cordwainer series by Joyce Lionarans @joyce
I’m loving this series set in the late 1200s #medievalliterature#medieval
It satisfies my love of: historical fiction, medieval setting with rich descriptions of the period and place, excellent mysteries solved by the King’s coroner, and likeable characters. @bookstodon
Edited the previous post (apologies), as the image was not rendering properly in some browsers. #MastoHelp: Do shallow aspect ratios cause problems? I resized it to 16x9.
Bless @internetarchive for saving the interesting website of the late #AnnSwinfen, to which she was adding until her sudden death in August 2018. Here's her introduction to #medieval#records & to the business of the #bookseller, supplying both affordable #textbooks to students & fine illustrated #manuscripts to wealthy patrons:
We are currently excavating the remnants of a #cloister originally founded in the 8th century. So for this #FindsFriday, just out of the ground a marble „chalice“ block capital with traces of red paint dating to around 1200 AD
> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.