La Leipsig
@laleipsig.bsky.social
Metalsmith with A Green Thumb. Permaculture. No Dig. Museumaddict. Medieval cook. Restless hands who love to create. #reenactor #earlymedieval #natureinmyneighbourhood
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Japanese New Year traditions include a thorough cleaning of the home, putting up decorations, eating soba noodles, visiting a shrine, and taking note of your first dream. I've written all about it here, with lots of #JapaneseArt too. Happy New Year! 🎍
#WyrdWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday
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Shogatsu
Celebrating the New Year in Japan
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December 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Japanese New Year traditions include a thorough cleaning of the home, putting up decorations, eating soba noodles, visiting a shrine, and taking note of your first dream. I've written all about it here, with lots of #JapaneseArt too. Happy New Year! 🎍
#WyrdWednesday
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#WyrdWednesday
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Viking-age leather ankle shoe, fastened with a double flap and toggles. Remarkably well-preserved for over a 1000 years!
Excavated at Coppergate, York. Jorvik Viking Centre 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Excavated at Coppergate, York. Jorvik Viking Centre 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Viking-age leather ankle shoe, fastened with a double flap and toggles. Remarkably well-preserved for over a 1000 years!
Excavated at Coppergate, York. Jorvik Viking Centre 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Excavated at Coppergate, York. Jorvik Viking Centre 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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Women’s Work and Family in the Viking Age
Women played many fundamental roles in Scandinavia during the Viking Age (eighth to eleventh century). Their positions ranged from slave to farmer to landholder and their tasks varied from the spin…
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December 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Had lots of fun recreating a #carolingian dress inspired by the #stuttgarterpsalter Also nice to be able to recycle an old dress from a different periode. #reenactment #earlymedieval #medievalsky
December 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Had lots of fun recreating a #carolingian dress inspired by the #stuttgarterpsalter Also nice to be able to recycle an old dress from a different periode. #reenactment #earlymedieval #medievalsky
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Winterproject: Based on the Stuttgarter psalter (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Bibl. fol. 23) I am working on a Carolingian dress. Here I’m working on the neckline.
#reenactment #carolingian #stuttgarterpsalter
#reenactment #carolingian #stuttgarterpsalter
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Winterproject: Based on the Stuttgarter psalter (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Bibl. fol. 23) I am working on a Carolingian dress. Here I’m working on the neckline.
#reenactment #carolingian #stuttgarterpsalter
#reenactment #carolingian #stuttgarterpsalter
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I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter....
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December 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter....
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No Xmas without a framboise/bavarois cake. Mmm, with berries from our graden.
December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
No Xmas without a framboise/bavarois cake. Mmm, with berries from our graden.
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As the holidays gear up, I find myself thinking of stockings...*
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
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So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
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NOW: Child’s sock with orange, blue and yellow stripes – III 15474
For a person that has spent a lot of time examining stockings, this is an excellent time of the year. The Museum der Kulturen Basel has the largest collection of Egyptian nalbinding1 and they just …
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December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As the holidays gear up, I find myself thinking of stockings...*
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
nalbound.com/2025/12/23/n...
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
nalbound.com/2025/12/23/n...
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Waarom laten we ons koloniseren door Amerikaanse techplatforms?
Zo nemen techplatforms de Europese economie over volgens Tim Wu
Support onze journalistiek, abonneer je op ons YouTube-kanaal. Echt rijk word je niet met werken. Dat weten we allemaal. Maar ook met kapitaal word je tegenw...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Waarom laten we ons koloniseren door Amerikaanse techplatforms?
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If you're as interested in Wilson Bentley as I am, then you can read more about his life and work here:
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Historical Figures: Wilson Bentley, The Man Who Photographed Snowflakes
With winter well and truly settled in, many places have been experiencing snowfall. Some places in the UK narrowly missed out on having snow on Christmas Day, bringing a much-desired White Christma…
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December 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If you're as interested in Wilson Bentley as I am, then you can read more about his life and work here:
justhistoryposts.com/2021/01/15/h...
justhistoryposts.com/2021/01/15/h...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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We've entered the era of "brainrot."
We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses. The cycle of viral content is faster than the cycle of understanding.
www.joanwestenberg.com/on-brainrot/
We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses. The cycle of viral content is faster than the cycle of understanding.
www.joanwestenberg.com/on-brainrot/
On Brainrot
The conservative commentator Erick-Woods Erickson observed on his Substack this week that Twitter has now convinced large swaths of the American right that Europe has been completely overrun by Muslims, that the United Kingdom is on the verge of becoming an Islamic nation, and that Sweden has fallen.
But reality
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December 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We've entered the era of "brainrot."
We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses. The cycle of viral content is faster than the cycle of understanding.
www.joanwestenberg.com/on-brainrot/
We became a global fragmentation of doom scrolling, context-lacking, uncurious, blindly accepting, regurgitating masses. The cycle of viral content is faster than the cycle of understanding.
www.joanwestenberg.com/on-brainrot/
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Just added to my Knowledge Commons works:
Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings: Confrontation and Cohabitation
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Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings: Confrontation and Cohabitation
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Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings: Confrontation and Cohabitation
A study of the varied and nuanced relationships between Scandinavians and the inhabitants of Carolingian Frisia, which stretched from the Scheldt estuary to the border of Viking-Age Denmark. The stere...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Just added to my Knowledge Commons works:
Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings: Confrontation and Cohabitation
works.hcommons.org/records/4ary...
Carolingian Frisia and the Vikings: Confrontation and Cohabitation
works.hcommons.org/records/4ary...
DigiVatLib
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December 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Yep! Goede keuze om dit boek te bestellen van @drdragases.bsky.social Lekker leesbaar en voor mij als leek een opheldering hoe de #merovingers op het #vroegemiddeleeuwen strijdveld opdoken. #medievalsky #franken
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Yep! Goede keuze om dit boek te bestellen van @drdragases.bsky.social Lekker leesbaar en voor mij als leek een opheldering hoe de #merovingers op het #vroegemiddeleeuwen strijdveld opdoken. #medievalsky #franken
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We accept that crops grow and then get harvested and then the field lies fallow.
We accept that animals hibernate.
But when it comes to our own sense of meaning, we expect constant summer...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-harve...
We accept that animals hibernate.
But when it comes to our own sense of meaning, we expect constant summer...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-harve...
The Harvest Will Come
A Defense of Human Seasons
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December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We accept that crops grow and then get harvested and then the field lies fallow.
We accept that animals hibernate.
But when it comes to our own sense of meaning, we expect constant summer...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-harve...
We accept that animals hibernate.
But when it comes to our own sense of meaning, we expect constant summer...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-harve...
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Column: de dictatuur van de bullebak.
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Column: de dictatuur van de bullebak.
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2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
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Beautiful even when all they needed to be was functional. Current working theory is that rubbing a linen garment with the "smoother" would so much act as an iron as it would give the linen a sheen, and Vikings did love to dress up pretty.
Whalebone plaque and glass 'smoothing stone' from Birka grave Bj 854. The plaque, paralleled at Scar, Orkney, was likely a board for linen preparation, with inclusion in high-status female graves a symbolic nod to prestigious household management roles.
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
My 📷 Ref Historiska museet
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Beautiful even when all they needed to be was functional. Current working theory is that rubbing a linen garment with the "smoother" would so much act as an iron as it would give the linen a sheen, and Vikings did love to dress up pretty.
Sometimes I make things out of silver. Here a pair of earrings I made some years ago.
#throwback #silverjewellery #early #metalsmithwithGreenThumb
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#throwback #silverjewellery #early #metalsmithwithGreenThumb
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November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Sometimes I make things out of silver. Here a pair of earrings I made some years ago.
#throwback #silverjewellery #early #metalsmithwithGreenThumb
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#throwback #silverjewellery #early #metalsmithwithGreenThumb
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Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
DE WERELD VAN CLOVIS | Prof. dr. Jeroen Wijnendaele (@drdragases.bsky.social) neemt ons in een tweeluik mee naar de wereld van Clovis!
➡️ Deel 1 is nu overal te beluisteren, bijvoorbeeld via linktr.ee/middeleeuwen
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #clovis
➡️ Deel 1 is nu overal te beluisteren, bijvoorbeeld via linktr.ee/middeleeuwen
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #clovis
De wereld van Clovis (1/2)
Middeleeuwen · Episode
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Perspectieven op objecten: hoe kijk jij naar kleine(re) middeleeuwse objecten in musea? Bijvoorbeeld naar deze twee ringen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden? Wat laten ze je zien… en wie laten ze je zien, welke gevoelens geven ze je?
⬇️ Wees welkom om dat hieronder te delen:
⬇️ Wees welkom om dat hieronder te delen:
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Perspectieven op objecten: hoe kijk jij naar kleine(re) middeleeuwse objecten in musea? Bijvoorbeeld naar deze twee ringen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden? Wat laten ze je zien… en wie laten ze je zien, welke gevoelens geven ze je?
⬇️ Wees welkom om dat hieronder te delen:
⬇️ Wees welkom om dat hieronder te delen:
Vorig jaar heb ik deze expo bezocht. Leuk om nog eens over na te lezen:
#franken #merovingers #medievalsky
mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/04/14/g...
#franken #merovingers #medievalsky
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Gouden Vrouwen in Rhenen - Mainzer Beobachter
De expositie "Gouden Vrouwen" in het Stadsmuseum Rhenen documenteert het leven van de rijke Frankische vrouwen tussen 400 en 800 na Chr.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Vorig jaar heb ik deze expo bezocht. Leuk om nog eens over na te lezen:
#franken #merovingers #medievalsky
mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/04/14/g...
#franken #merovingers #medievalsky
mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/04/14/g...
Maar eens op m’n sint-lijstje zetten …
Vandaag is 't exact een jaar geleden dat 'De wereld van Clovis. De val van Rome en de geboorte van het Westen' @ertsberg.bsky.social verscheen. Sindsdien vlogen er meer dan 4000 (!) exemplaren over de toonbank.
Ik heb altijd geweten dat het goed zou doen, maar zo goed? Dat had ik niet durven hopen.
Ik heb altijd geweten dat het goed zou doen, maar zo goed? Dat had ik niet durven hopen.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Maar eens op m’n sint-lijstje zetten …