#otd 1476 died Dietrich III of Schönberg, Bishop of Meissen. His impressive tomb plate in Meissen Cathedral is the work of the Vischer family of craftsmen from Nuremberg. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Exciting news! @erc has awarded an #ERCAdG worth €2.5m to Insular #Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne. Our team includes @litteracarolina.mastodon.online & partners in libraries & universities across Europe, including the ERC Beasts2Craft project, Prof. Daniel Bradley, Dr. Charlotte Denoël at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Dr. Lieve Watteeuw, @BodleianLibraries, and the British Library.
Murder in the bathtub? #otd 1034 Emperor Romanos III Argyros died. His death was blamed in various ways on his wife Zoë - by poison or at her request by drowning in the bath. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms: Biblioteca Nacional de España, VITR/26/2, f. 206v.
Very cool that the oldest known Polish prose text is actually assembled from binding fragments. It really highlights the importance of #fragmentology, and the possibility of more treasures hidden inside early modern book bindings.
#odt 1137 William X of Aquitaine died on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. On his deathbed, he is said to have arranged the marriage of his daughter Eleonore to Louis, the king of France's son. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms.: BL, Royal 16 G VI, f. 313v
Schwinges, Rainer Christoph • Wriedt, Klaus (ed), Gesandtschafts- und Botenwesen im spätmittelalterlichen Europa (Vorträge und Forschungen 60), Stuttgart 2003.
#otd 1364 John II of France, called ,the Good’, died in London. His body was transferred to France and buried in St Denis. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Ms.: The Hague, KB, 72 A 25, fol. 247r
Patschovsky, Alexander / Wünsch, Thomas (ed), Das Reich und Polen: Parallelen, Interaktionen und Formen der Akkulturation im Hohen und Späten Mittelalter (Vorträge und Forschungen 59), Stuttgart 2003.
#otd 1498 Charles VIII of France died. His impressive tomb in St Denis was destroyed in the 18th century, but an image survived in the collection of François Roger de Gaignières. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
Translation of the royal charter from 1382 issued by Stefan Tvrtko I, by the grace of God, King of #Serbs and #Bosnia and Primorje to #Dubrovnik, confirming their salt-trading monopoly.