an image promoting a substack article titled ‘25 medieva manuscripts you can look at online right now’
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
My childhood Pompeii interests have come back
![Cover of Illinois Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Fall 2025
Front Cover Image: Coin: AE 22, Reggio (1900.63.0631) [Image 1—side with lyre] Courtesy of The Spurlock Museum, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hx2rap444dems47f7x56a47j/bafkreig6y4rhvqfboytdmto63xpjgvninhfd6fykm6cjxb2t4pvnq5wxwu)
Cover of Illinois Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Fall 2025 Front Cover Image: Coin: AE 22, Reggio (1900.63.0631) [Image 1—side with lyre] Courtesy of The Spurlock Museum, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
More Illinois Classical Studies 50.2:
📄 Plutarch's Presentation of Philopoemen as the “Last of the Greeks”
✍️ Nasser B. Ayash
📄 Tragedy in Nemea: Premature Death and Maternal Grief in Statius's Thebaid Through Seneca's Troades
✍️ Francesca Econimo @jhievents.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56235
Fall for this easy Airfryer chicken pot pie with a Chinese twist!
Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/airfryer-chi...
every medievally inspired artist must eventually make a pastiche of their favourite piece of medieval art
not very hard to guess which one's mine 🩸🦄🌷
I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan
this bread is beautiful
Famously, this inscribed stone not only bears a runic inscription, but it is also the only runic-og(h)am biscriptal stone in Ireland (more at O3D: ogham.celt.dias.ie/I-CLA-004).
Contrary to a widespread belief, the ogham inscription does NOT contain the Norse name TORQRIM (Thórgrímr).
And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green.
~John Keats (died #OTD 1821)
🎨Allen Todd Yeager
#bookchatweekly
Art of the weird elongate monster with eyes all over its body, bunched up to look like a cow's entrails. Inset is an outline showing the scale next to a person (it is much bigger) and a map of Europe showing where the lake is in Switzerland.
#FolkloreThursday Lüschersee is a small Swiss Alpine lake which is said to be bottomless. In its depths lives the Butatsch Cun Ilgs, a monster described as looking like an enormous cow's stomach covered with hundreds of hypnotic eyes, which can also shoot fire.
abookofcreatures.com/2015/09/23/b...
Cover of Journal of American Folklore, JAF: A Global Quarterly, Vol. 139, No. 551, Winter 2026. Grey background with blue and red geometric design.
In JAF: A Global Quarterly 551, Stephanie Aitken, @thefoodlorist.bsky.social, et al. @gmufolklore.bsky.social reflect on academic life, political instability, and professional identity in the wake of the 2024 presidential election in the US. On @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/artic...
it's Friday the 13th, i'm obligated to tell you my book about horror movies is out now.
it's about folk horror, ecohorror, gastrohorror. sadly Jason only gets a cameo, but Stardew Valley makes a surprise appearance at least
Roses are Red: The Sinister Side of #Valentine’s Day Folklore by @icysedgwick.bsky.social
folklorethursday.com/folklife/ros...
No, I want chocolate.
I’d trust these faeries waaaaay more than AI.
Baking the original Girl Scout cookies from 1922
A delicious Creole Gumbo using a 140 year old recipe. youtu.be/99yi0FRF4uM?...
Visited the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo today. I could have spent two full days here, I think.
I know there's a lot going on, and folks across western Alaska still need help to recover from massive storm and flood damage.
This ebook offer is ongoing! Donate at least $5 to these orgs, and get an ebook (or gift it to a friend!) That's half the retail price!
A door from a 13th century building on my ancestral farm in Voss, Norway, for #aDoorableThursday - with imitation wooden pillars and evil spirits thoroughly warded off with tar crosses.
right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday
Ran out of noodles so I grabbed spaghetti and dinner still came out sizzling.
Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/shrimp-chow-...
We’ve celebrated a Polish tradition today with a huge amount of “Pączki”. Do you recognize this sweet treat? And don’t say they’re Donuts - they're not Donuts - they’re so much more than Donuts…
Some of our team managed to eat half a dozen of them each, so that means tons of calories to burn now…
There are four main food groups: 1. Canned 2. Frozen 3. Fried 4. Drive-thru
A white heart on a claret background. The words offer 50% off the first month of Patreon membership with the discount code lovefolk
Friday 13th shouldn't just be about bad luck, so...
To show you some love this Valentine weekend, I've created this discount code to give you 50% off the cost of any paid membership tier on the podcast Patreon.
Sign up at patreon.com/thefolklorepodcast with the code LOVEFOLK until midnight Sunday
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56098
JAF: A Global Quarterly No. 551 is now on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring work by @drafoulis.bsky.social, @torquil.bsky.social, @daazhraii.bsky.social, @rachelbgross.bsky.social, @tamarasiuda.com, @thefoodlorist.bsky.social, Stephanie Aitken (@gmufolklore.bsky.social) & muse.jhu.edu/issue/56098
That's me! (And my amazing cohort!)
Looking forward to a wonderful 2025 AFS! #afsam
Last bit of fieldwork! #foodways #folklore #folklife
Rogers Fund, 1926
Stays
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