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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Jun 1

A beautiful day on Salisbury Plain:

#Stonehenge

Stonehenge, a megalithic structure of ancient standing stones, with fluffy clouds on a bright blue sky.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Jun 1

Oxford yesterday: as magical as one would expect or hope. 💜

The Radcliffe Camera, the famed circular building at the heart of Oxford.

Christ Church, a beautiful, ivied edifice evoking the days of grand country houses.

Christ Church War Memorial Garden, with lavender and other plants in shades of purple, with an occasional sprinkling of yellow.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

Today’s book haul from Waterstones Covent Garden. Mostly picture books for K-2; will do Middle Grade shopping another day. Oh, English bookshops!😍 📚

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

Got very animated, talking about Gower to my non-Medievalist sister, who told me I scared away a pair of tourists with my impassioned narrative 😂

Southwark Cathedral (St. Mary Overies / St. Saviour’s, Southwark)

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

Visited my boy Gower yesterday at Southwark Cathedral (St. Mary Overies):

Monument to John Gower, English author, friend and contemporary of Chaucer in Southwark Cathedral. An effigy of Gower, resting on three volumes of his works.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

My favorites are when the parents email me, saying perhaps their child didn’t even take the book out, and then I respond with, well, regardless, we’ll have to charge you for it, and the book mysteriously appears in the book return overnight 😂

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

I’m feeling attacked 😂

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · May 29

My 14yo just now: “POP QUIZ: What’s the first word of BEOWULF.”
I: “Hwæt!”
14yo: “And what does it mean?”
I: *Long, pregnant sigh* “Well…”
14yo: *laughing, because he knows he just played a great joke on me* 😂
#proudmama

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today, for the start of Read Across America Week, we had a Free Book Fair for our elementary students. Everyone got 1 book ticket to start and an additional ticket for any old book they turned in, up to 5 extra tickets. The kids were thrilled! Everyone walked away with at least one new-to-them book📚

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · Feb 17

Sometimes the absent is still quite visible. This is the recto and verso of the same leaf, and the recto from the following, from #Houghton 2020HEM-79, showing traces of what was once clearly a lovely miniature of the Host, entirely missing from the MS as seen today
#MedievalSky

Images of three manuscript leaves stitched together in photoshop. The leftmost image, is a recto, and is blank, but some ruling and bleed-through of border decorations and a central image of a cross in a circle. In the middle is a mostly blank page with a clearer image transfer of the circle-with-cross. On the right is a page of brown text in a small gothic hand. There is no trace of the source of the transferred borders or cross image. From Houghton Library 2020HEM-79

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Feb 13

A wonderful episode of Tasting History, in which Max Miller covers frumenty, a Medieval porridge:

www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/fru...

How Medieval Peasants Survived the Winter — Tasting History

How to survive a medieval winter, and a 14th century recipe for rich and hearty wheat berry porridge

www.tastinghistory.com

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · Jan 24

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jan 24

Booking is now open for our first 'Unfolding Time' exhibition lecture:

Megan McNamee, 'Light and Labour in Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs'

🕓 5.30pm, 19 February

For booking info, see www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/events

#UnfoldingTime #LambethPalaceLibrary

[Image: Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, NKS 901]

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · Jan 21

32 #Manuscripts were digitized this past week by the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes several Boethius, a nice Sallust, more Sistine Diari volumes, an early Russian Gospel, Augustinian liturgy... and more!
#Medievalsky

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 3 of 2025

A total of thrty-two manuscripts were added in the past week to the Vatican repositories. The largest contributor was the Vat.lat collection, with thirteen, followed with Capp.Sist.Diari with nine an...

www.wiglaf.org

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Dec 24

W. B. Yeats

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you!😍 The kids loved it, and we raffled off Aslan the Lion between all the kids in the school. The winner doesn’t know yet, but they will certainly have happy holidays with Aslan in the house!

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Dec 5

Our school book fair is in full swing. We went with a Narnia theme, and it has been a huge success with kids & parents alike! 😍

I made the cupboard doors out of pink insulation foam:

Large faux-wood doors, through which shows a snowy landscape with lamp post and Aslan, the Lion.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Nov 23

I’m sorry your day was crappy! Happy to hear your husband took such good care of you.💛

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Nov 21

Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · Nov 21

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · Nov 22

Oh, the sweet days when the elite wanted to immortalize themselves by building colleges, museums, and libraries.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · Nov 21

Today’s #medievalmood is this owl, who has seen things.

I feel you, friend. I feel you.

From a Book of Hours at Trinity College, 15th C, B 1.46

A fluffy brown owl in a round green base, his eyes wide and his feathers puffed out. Behind him is ornate floral line art in blue and red.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Nov 20

I think I can still recite all the Dark is Rising prophecies by heart!

“When the dark comes rising,
Six shall turn it back….”

Greenwitch was perhaps my favorite (apart from the Dark is Rising), but I was also passionate about The Grey King.

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Anniina Jokinen @austinani.bsky.social · Nov 20

I read Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones so many times, I don’t know if any other kids in my library got to read it! 😍 The Chrestomanci books and Eva Ibbotson’s Which Witch were among the first books I bought for our school library!

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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · Nov 20

I created this meme to commemorate the death of Twitter

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