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Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up: paper 142a from @taylorcowdery.bsky.social on dodgy sexual goings-on by London embroiderers (who sound rather like Terry Pratchett's Seamstresses' Guild)
Transcript of London Guildhall court case from 1385 involving Elizabeth Moryng, "under color of the craft of embroidery" pimping out her apprentices.
September 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Today's @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up, where in #s511 Daniela Rywiková has a rather more assertive Czech Death than I remember from Terry Pratchett...
Death-bed scene where Death (with impressive biceps) is choking an unresisting young man.
August 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today's gem from 2025 catch-up sessions from @imc-leeds.bsky.social. A vernacular charm against worms from C15 Italian witch trials from Paolo Nanni in #s721. There are early medieval Latin anti-worm charms as well: maybe we need a long-duree study?
Text of witch's charm (trial of Matteuccia, Todi, 1428): starts "Lumbrica, lumbricaia, che tieni core et anima"
August 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
More @imc-leeds.bsky.social catch-up today, including another unfortunate medieval name (from paper by Adrian Jobson #s1107). When many of the charter witnesses are called John and you're the one no-one likes...
Summary of C13 charter by Cristiana Ledet; witnesses include Johanne de Mondene, Johanne Bastard and Johanne Foliot.
August 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When your medieval parents name you after a Merovingian saint, but the scribe's rubbish at spelling (from nppm.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/gast/einzelb...)
Screenshot from NPPM database of medieval names: lemmatized name is Radgunth, form in the text is "ratcunt".
August 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM