I wonder what the maximum range of a trebuchet is. #weapons #weaponry #mediaeval #medieval

Happy #Lammastide, to all who celebrate!

[Image from the Oscott Psalter, c. 1265-1270, in the British Library, f.4v]

#mediaeval #illumination #13thcentury #harvest #middleages #history #seasons

Tewkesbury Abbey: An old postcard. The Abbey was near the site of the battle in 1471 and several Lancastrians sought sanctuary there after the battle. However, since it was not an official place of sanctuary, King Edward IV had the men dragged out and killed. #Medieval #Mediaeval #WarsoftheRoses

Archaeologists Discover Remnant of Lost Village Buried Under the Ocean for 600 Years. The main church of #Rungholt, a #Medieval settlement that has been called the “Atlantis of the North Sea” because it was wiped out in a #flood, has been found. https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yygw/archaeologists-discover-remnant-of-lost-village-buried-under-the-ocean-for-600-years #archaeology #archeology #frisia #germany #history #mediaeval

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-recorded-stand-up-comedy-sketch-from-500-years-ago-discovered-in-15th-century-manuscript/ #StandUpComedy #History #Mediaeval

22 May 1455 was the 1st Battle of St. Albans. It was fought through the town including in Market Place, which still functions as a place for a market! Richard duke of York fought against the king's men including the duke of Somerset who died in the skirmish. #Mediaeval #WarsofTheRoses #Battles

22 May 1455 was the 1st Battle of St. Albans. It was fought through the town including in Market Place, which still functions as a place for a market! Richard duke of York fought against the king's men including the duke of Somerset who died in the skirmish. #Mediaeval #WarsofTheRoses #Battles

War #elephant, #illustration in a late 12th century #English #bestiary.

The accompanying #Latin text quotes Gaius Julius #Solinus (early 3rd century compiler, commonly known as Solinus Polyhistor), himself quoting the description of elephants in the "Naturalis Historia" of #Pliny the Elder (23/24 CE - 79 CE).

In the #British #Library, #manuscript Add MS 11283, f.4r.

#mediaeval #art #illumination #12thCentury #animal

Back to the #middleages for #goodfriday ! https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/christ-on-the-cross-with-the-virgin-and-saint-john-the-evangelist-33014 #easter #medieval #mediaeval

Hunter’s Sty Bridge

The River Esk has a few single-arched bridges, but the best one is probably the Hunter's Sty Bridge. It's located at the bottom of Huntersty, the 'steep path of the hunters,' just past the northern end of Westerdale village.

Hunter's Sty Bridge was most likely built in the late 13th century to provide access to the Royal Forest of Pickering, although some believe t ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31840

#NorthYorkMoors #RiverEsk #Westerdale #history #mediaeval

I didn't share any photos on my weekend away, so here are some photos of #Dartmouth #castle. There's a #Victorian gun battery right on the point (the first photo with the #cannon is an interior shot of that), and behind that the #mediaeval gun tower and St Petroc's church (the second photo. Not photographed: the Victorian lighthouse and what remains of the original fortalice, built in 1388 to protect the town from raiders.

Black Hambleton

The glooming mass of the flat-topped Black Hambleton, the northern end of the calcareous Tabular Hills that range from Roulston Scar in the south.

Climbing up to its right is Hambleton Street, part of the drover’s road that once extended from Scotland along which cattle were driven to be sold at the markets of York, Malton and beyond. The trade was established i ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31592

#BlackHambleton #NorthYorkMoors #TabularHills #folklore #mediaeval

"#Book about the persecution of the Jews also contains cut and paste work without a source". There have been allegations of #plagiarism among scholars of #mediaeval #manuscripts against Professor Carla #Rossi, whose delightful Swiss research institute seems only to exist only on a website of stock and photoshopped pictures. Now she seems to have taken her talent into an unrelated historical era
(article in #Dutch)
https://nieuwscheckers.nl/receptiogate-ook-boek-over-jodenvervolging-bevat-knip-en-plakwerk-zonder-bron/

Spent some time revisiting medieval St Andrews and the amazing John Geddy map (c. 1580’s), and was lucky to have some unbelievably fitting views!

#Medieval #Mediaeval #MedievalHistory #ScottishHistory #Histodons #History #PhD #SpatialHistory

I'm about to start reading Haven by Emma Donoghue, about a trio of monks during the Dark Ages who set out to found a hermitage on the towering rock of Skellig Michael - the two novices faithfully following their increasingly crazed and autocratic religious maniac of a leader. I love Donoghue's tender voice, really looking forward to this #EmmaDonoghue #Haven #Ireland #Mediaeval

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/WilliamMorris-KelmscottChaucer/pages/397-astrolabe-illo-with-closest-border/

Illustration of man holding an astrolabe from the #William Morris edition of the works of #GeoffreyChaucer

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #border #woodEngraving #art #boy #castle #astrolabe #science #medieval #mediaeval #artsAndCrafts

Greyfriars monastery - a last vestige of the lost Mediaeval city of Dunwich, Suffolk, UK. The old friary was destroyed by the sea in the 13th century so the friars rebuilt it on a hill top outside the city walls, reusing all sorts of salvaged stones, including Scandinavian ship's ballast. It's a hotspot of geodiversity!
My poem - https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/2023/01/06/greyfriars/
#geology #geodiversity #Mediaeval #Suffolk #poetry

Concert stage of the Mediaeval Baebes during their recent tour stop at Truro Cathedral #mediaevalbaebes #trurocathedral #truro #mediaeval #medieval #livemusic #livemusicphoto #cathedral

The Perambulation Stone.

Erected in 1240 when the ‘boundaries’ of The Forest of Dartmoor were marked by King John’s officials (he’d flogged off lots of surrounding land to raise war chest monies)

#Dartmoor #Mediaeval

The Perambulation Stone.

Erected in 1240 when the ‘boundaries’ of The Forest of Dartmoor were marked by King John’s officials (he’d flogged off lots of surrounding land to raise war chest monies)

#Dartmoor #Mediaeval