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Caroline Schmitz
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Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
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Caroline Schmitz @thrawnjanet.bsky.social · Jun 6
“semper auscultant!”
“si modo linguam secretam haberemus…” #medievalists #medievalSky #medieval #classicists #classicalSky #classical #classic #class #ass
Two men on horseback converse as they lead a mail-clad cavalry
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“The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. ” Jonathan Larson

(Walters Art Museum, MS W.805, f. 6v)
#medievalSky #creation #illumination
God creates Eve in an idyllic Garden of Eden full of colourful birds and animals.
June 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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@krheyam.bsky.social Do go see this if you have the opportunity! I do wholeheartedly recommend it 💕
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Born with Teeth | London West End Play | Wyndham’s Theatre
Book Born With Teeth tickets in London’s West End - starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel. Now playing at Wyndham’s Theatre until 1 Nov 2025.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Swinney didn’t just speak.—he drew a line: Scotland is on the road to independence, and there’s no turning back
#Scotland #ScottishIndependenceASAP #ScottishIndependence
October 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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@marcmorris.bsky.social Are those Playmobil Normans on your profile banner?? (Hugh wanted me to ask you)
Eleanor de Clare & husband
October 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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archiepiscopa habemus! #medievalSky #linguaLatina #Latin #history #church #sisterhood
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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archiepiscopa habemus! #medievalSky #linguaLatina #Latin #history #church #sisterhood
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#medievalsky
September 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#GOALS
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part iiii
#medievalSky #fashion #sashay #slay aka Hartmann von Aue in the Codex Manesse (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, f. 184v)
A knight in all his finery astride a pink horse
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Never change, England
A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#medieval Fashion Inspo, part i 💅
#medievalSky #fashion #passion
(Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rh. hist. 33b, f. 50v)
A person behind a wall gestures with finger-like candles or candle-like fingers to another so adorned.
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Mix it up! Don’t stay in your lane!!
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part ii 👘
#medievalSky #fashion #passion #art #fart #illumination #enumeration
(Les Belles Heures de Jean, duc de Berry 🫐 f. 184v)
St Jerome enters chapel wearing a lovely blue maxi dress.
June 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🪩 Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. 🪩
#medieval Fashion Inspo, part iii 👸
#medievalSky #fashion aka Hiltbolt von Schwangau 🦢 in the Codex Manesse (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, f. 146r) 🦢
Two dancing ladies and a musician are joined by a tall knight. The knight’s helm is crested with a statant swan, like the charge of his shield and surcoat.
June 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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thrawnjanet.bsky.social
“semper auscultant!”
“si modo linguam secretam haberemus…” #medievalists #medievalSky #medieval #classicists #classicalSky #classical #classic #class #ass
Two men on horseback converse as they lead a mail-clad cavalry
June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Dic mihi hunc librum ✨magicum✨ non esse.

from les Belles Heures of Jean, Duc de Berry 🍓 by the Limbourg Bros. at the National Gallery (Siena exhibition)

#medievalSky #medieval #art #book #magic #light #illumination
An illuminated text glimmers
June 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Sic semper tyrannis.
September 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Mappa Mundi from Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon #mapMonday #medievalSky (BL Royal MS 14 C IX, fs. 1v & 2r)
An illustrated map of the old world with Jerusalem at the centre.
June 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Quot exempla moralia adhuc opus sunt, ut intellegamus quid viris albis (qui dicuntur) in America concedamus? #Arnold #Bundy #Columbus #Dahmer #Epstein #Forrest #Gotti #Hoover #Icahn #Jackson #Kissinger #Lee #McCarthy #Nixon #Oswald #Petraeus #QAnon #Rumsfeld #Sackler
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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
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September 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Quot exempla moralia adhuc opus sunt, ut intellegamus quid viris albis (qui dicuntur) in America concedamus? #Arnold #Bundy #Columbus #Dahmer #Epstein #Forrest #Gotti #Hoover #Icahn #Jackson #Kissinger #Lee #McCarthy #Nixon #Oswald #Petraeus #QAnon #Rumsfeld #Sackler

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Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
“Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”
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July 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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#medievalsky
September 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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She stopped responding to her husband when he said something stupid, but now he thinks she’s deaf… #MedievalSky
June 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.

James Baldwin
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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In Gaza bellum obsidionale geritur. Hic vir vult esse crucesignatus. #skystorians #medievalSky #linguaLatina #Latin #Crusades #siege #war #villainy

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Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos and the Crusading Obsession of the Far Right
The symbols sported by Trump’s defense pick reveal how the medieval past is being reimagined by Christian nationalists, behind a shield of plausible deniability
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July 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I’ve just verified my age by naming all of the New Kids on the Block.
brokentv.uk Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · Jul 24
I've just verified my age by recording the noise I make when getting off the sofa.
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hoc omnino verum est!!!
zenothankyou.bsky.social Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · Jul 26
3. European history as a discipline would be more accessible had Latin remained the lingua franca.
July 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM