Also please enjoy this truly wonderful image of a surgeon (and some assistants) treating the dislocation of the spine (ÖNB Cod. Ser. n. 2641, fol. 76v)

saw this today and I think you all should see it too (it's from an Italian 14th century surgical text, a Latin translation of Arab physician Abu al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas az-Zahrawi)--one of many obstetrical images, this one featuring the delivery of twins (!!)

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Who will be at the 'Zoo @kzooicms.bsky.social next week? I'll be chairing probably the best and coolest roundtable ever, "The Middle Ages Reloaded: Activism, Public Engagement, and Political Realities" on Friday afternoon at 1:30

FOR EXAMPLE (here he is performing a surgery, BL Sloane 2002, fol. 24v)

The way I would have been the most annoying respondent to this poll--also lol. Looking forward to incorporating all this weird data into the medievalisms work

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Excited to be presenting at the @medievalacademy.bsky.social in Boston later this month! Who else will be there?

an icon. a legend. the moment.

ALSO ON VIEW: our newly-acquired Jean Bourdichon leaf of the Lamentation from the Hours of Louis XII, reunited (for the first time in more than 200 years!) with the portrait of Louis XII as it would have appeared in the original manuscript

well-endowed, urinating beaked guy carrying buckets is a marginal detail from this ca. 1460 French book of hours (Morgan Library Ms. M.282, fol. 17)

them: ah, medieval art, so beautiful, so spiritual, so serious
medieval art:

A nice thing today: this gorg 12th-century portrait of the prophet Micah from a Bible illuminated at the St. Martin Monastery in Tours with lovely decorative script, an interesting late Caroline miniscule, and stylized angular figure typical of Romanesque painting (Getty Museum Ms. 38)

Reminded today of Simon Marmion's ca. 1475 vision of Heaven, where the souls deemed "not very bad" are stuck in a wall to experience the temporary discomforts of wind and rain, as opposed to the fiery torments of Hell. (Getty Museum Ms. 30, fol. 33v)