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Dr Evelyn Koch
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Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Well hello!
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Auf Shetland konnte man Gedichte auf öffentlichen Toiletten lesen - bog poetry.
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Some modern standing stones for #StandingStoneSunday: this is an art installation in Newtonmore in the Cairngorns. You have to zoom in to see the individual carvings on the stones.

📷 from 2023
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Last weekend, I only had little time to explore Mainz due to conference business, but you're never far away from a Roman site in former Mogontiacum. Here is the Dativius-Victor-Arch - it's a reconstruction and the original is in a museum now.
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
For #PhantomsFriday, the tomb of the helhest, the hell-horse, in Roskilde Cathedral. Its ghost is said to appear at night to anyone who dares to go near the cathedral. The horse's ghost is three-legged and skeletal with red-burning eyes, and anyone who sees it will die soon.

📷 from 2022
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The latest Hither Shore is out now! Not only does it contain articles on the volume's topic #Tolkien and his editors, but various Tolkien editors reflect on their own experiences of editing Tolkien's works.
💙📚 #fantasy #lit #littwiss
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The parable of the ten virgins as depicted in Magdeburg Cathedral. Quite a remarkable piece of art from the mid-13th century - it's worth zooming in on their faces since there aren't that many smiling or crying medieval statues. 🏺
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I like that both St. Jerome and the lion are exceedingly grumpy in this #earlymodern fresco. 🏺
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Next to the tomb of Otto I, there's the statue of Saint Maurice from the mid-13th century, the patron saint after which the cathedral is named. 🏺 #medievalsky
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The tomb of Eadgyth, known as Editha in German, queen consort of Otto I (his tomb isn't open to the public at the moment). She was the grandaughter of Alfred the Great and half-sister to King Athelstan. 🏺 #medievalsky
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
A particularly spooky #earlymodern memento mori in Magdeburg Cathedral. 🏺
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Magdeburg Cathedral. 🏺
October 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Got this at the book fair in Frankfurt last weekend. "Introverted Latvian Writer" might be my new spirit animal.
October 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Went to see the ever reliably great Robert Forster and his Swedish Band (yes, that's what they're called). Great set and very dry wit by Mr Forster.
October 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dr Dee ushering in spooky season.
An early modern woodcut featuring Dr Dee and a "swift, sharpe, poysonable tongued monster of many heads" that "devoureth men".
#FolkloreThursday
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
On this week's undead theme for #WyrdWednesday: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14thC) mentions a story of a monster begotten by the dead that comes to haunt a vile rapist. (The full story's quote is in the Alt-Text.)
The undead monster as depicted in a 1582-edition.
October 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The episode "Hans My Hedgehog" from Jim Henson's The Storyteller freaked me out as a small child, but at the same time has a lot to answer for in terms of my appreciation of horror.
#WyrdWednesday
September 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bonus plate from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705) showing some ferocious spiders and ants. #WyrdWdnesday
September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
For #WyrdWednesday 's insect topic, an image from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) depicting the metamorphosis of butterflies. Still in the #earlymodern period, insects were believed to be spontaneously generated from mud, which is disproved here.
September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
View of the Glauberger Annexwälle - remains of a hillfort on the Glauberg estimated to be from c. 500 BC. The ramparts are distinctly visible and you can walk on them.
#HillfortsWednesday
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
View of the reconstructed burial mound. The original tomb is from c. 420 BC.
#TombTuesday
September 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
One of my favourite exhibits is this piece of ceramics which predates the Celtic settlement on the Glauberg considerably. It's a 7000-years-old piece of ceramics in form of a pig snout. 🏺
September 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
There's also a whole army of Fürsten am Glauberg in front of the Keltenwelt am Glauberg.
September 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"Bettine von Arnim with the model of her Goethe monument". The monument - I have questions!
September 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Well hello. 🏺
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM