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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Here we look at a Pen and Sword offering covering Medieval Military Medicine from the Vikings to the Middle Ages.

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 7m

These posts are meant to be a bit of silliness, not a genuine commentary, but saying that, you and I must have seen very different elephants in our time.

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Brilliant aren’t they? One reason is the popularity of the Biblical story of Eleazar who killed a war elephant (1 Maccabees 6:43–46), although admittedly this image doesn’t relate to that.

Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 5h

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Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that has never seen one’ - 14th century, British Library, Sloane MS 4016, f. 50r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 1d

‘D’ is for Disorientated - 13th century, British Library, Landsdowne MS 420, f. 92v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 2d

Struggles with medieval contact lenses - 14th century, Exeter College MS. 47, f. 122r

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Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 3d

That is very kind of you 🙏🙏🙏

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Lady Dard’s mobile beekeeping service wasn’t an immediate success. It took her a while to work the bugs out - 14th century, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3003, f. 72r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 4d

So nice! 😎😎

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“ I don’t care if you’re the king, it’s time you started pulling your weight around here mister! ” - 15th century, Kantonsbibliothek, VadSlg Ms. 352, fol. 1-2, f. 83

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 6d

“ The question we have before us today lads is this: Does Leofric’s new mail make his butt look big? ” - 13th century, Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.638, f. 28r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat.1726, f. 37r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 8d

May 29th, 1412; the day Roger decided that wild swimming really wasn’t for him - 15th century, BnF, Latin 9585, f. 38r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 9d

“ It was him, the guy in the green!! He’s the one that did it!! ” - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 495, f. 95r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 10d

“ You’re gonna need a bigger boat ” - 15th century, Recoeil des Histoires de Troyes, KBR, ms. 9261 (Vol. I), f. 198r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 11d

When you ask the local kids to do the illuminations for your manuscript - 14th century, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 101, f. 40v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 12d

The cramped conditions on late medieval public transportation often had a lasting a effect on those who had no choice but to use it - 1348, Bodleian Library MS. Selden Supra 57, ff. 112r, 107v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 13d

Rare drone shot take at the Last Supper - 14th century, Stiftsbibliothek. Cod. 101, f. 45v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 14d

For Tuesday, an ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 3974, f. 81r

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 15d

Marian ended up turning away several confused customers who expected something quite different of the castle’s Swinger’s Club - 15th century, New York Public Library, Spencer 15, f. 39v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 16d

Cut flowers on this and other pages within this manuscript give the illusion that their stems pierce the page to keep them in place - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, p. 63

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 17d

That first sip on a weekend morning - Doodle from a 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, 101, f. 95v

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 18d

This was the day Meredith decided to give up fishing in the lake near Radiaton - 15th century, BnF Français, 242, f. 154r

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