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For #caturday a plaque (meant to cover a book, c. 1000 AD) w/ the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) on a Cross between Emblems of the 4 evangelists:

🦁 an angel (Matthew), a winged lion (Mark), a winged ox (Luke), and an eagle (John).

🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky 🏺 #archaeology #skystorians #art
A plaque (meant to cover a book, c. 1000 AD) w/ the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) on a Cross between Emblems of the 4 evangelists: An angel (Matthew), a winged lion (Mark), a winged ox (Luke), and an eagle (John).
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
For #tilesontuesday an optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. OPA = Opera del Duomo, founded in 1296 in Fl. to oversee the construction of the new Cathedral & its bell tower.

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky #renaissance #skystorians 🏺
a stunning optical illusion of perspective on the marble floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. Detail of the the optical illusion of perspective on the floor of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It shows the letters OPA in the middle which stands for Opera Del Duomo.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
For #mosaicmonday stunning details of the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral.

🎬 We'll be filming there in early 2026 for an upcoming film about its remarkable artworks & architecture.

(Photos by C. Pradel)

🗃️ #arthistory #art #medievalsky 🏺 #archaeology
Details of the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral. Detail showing Gabriel in the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral. Detail of an eye in the mosaic of the Annunciation attributed to Lippo Memmi in Pisa Cathedral.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
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
The richly decorated sarcophagus of Eadgyth/Editha in Magdeburg Cathedral. On top, there's the likeness of Eadgyth/Editha layed out. Beneath, an inscription about the queen.
October 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
Looking up the precise location of the site producing the Anglo-Saxon pottery I have been asked to look at in the ROM. North Elmham was apparently the seat of a bishopric until 1071, and the excavations were to the southwest of the now ruined cathedral. 🏺 #MedievalSky
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
bookswain.bsky.social
Another plate from my copy of John O. Westwood’s Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon & Irish Manuscripts (1868), this one from the mid-8th century Stockholm Codex Aureus, created in Southumbria in present day England. Westwood made his “facsimiles” by painting copies of the originals. #booksky #medievalsky
The opening of the Gospel of Matthew, with the first seven lines written in elaborately decorated gilt letters with bright, differing colors throughout. Above and below in a standard looking, smaller script in Old English is a narrative on how the manuscript was ransomed from a Viking army who had stolen it on one of their raids in Kent and given to Christ Church, Canterbury. 📚💙 🏺 #art
October 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#ArchInk 2: shell; 3: residue; 6: horn; 7: textile; 8: stratigraphy
#inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️
Combining a few prompts to tell the story of Worcester Cathedral’s Cockleshell Pilgrim.
#ArchInk Ink and graphite sketch of a grave. Accompanying text labels read: The Cockleshell Pilgrim In 1986-7, Excavations within Worcester Cathedral uncovered the body of a man wearing woollen clothing and leather boots, and artefacts suggesting an association with pilgrimage. Research by Katherine lack points to his identity: Robert Sutton, c15th Worcester dyer 6: horn Decayed remnants of a horn tip were found at the top of a 1.55m wooden staff buried next to the body. 8:stratigraphy The burial post-dates construction of the choir wall in 1374. The head and neck were missing: cut by a brick wall that truncated the west end of the grave. 3: residue Remnants of soft tissue, skin, spinal cord, ligaments and muscle were found on the spine and pelvis. 2: Shell Next to the Staff, and a bronze lace end, was a 5cm cockle shell, pierced at the top. Shells were a common Symbol of pilgrimage, but usually Scallop Shells associated with St James'Shrine at Santago de Compostela. The cockle is therefore odd - it may have been intended as a general SymboLof pilgrimage 7: textile He was buried wearing an undershirt and a fine cloak made from a type of woollen cloth called 'worsted' They were of good quality, but plain and undyed -Befitting a pilgrim. Sutton's 1454 will contained a wish to be buried “before the image of StJames in the cathedral.” The man was in his sixties, at least - but had been fit and active before arthritis set in. After anillustration by Helen Lubin, 1990
October 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
robhedge.bsky.social
#ArchInk 1: pigment
#inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️

Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute this year, but I’ll try to chip in when I can.
Ink and graphite sketch showing a woman in medieval dress, holding writing implements in each hand and an expression of intense focus, sat in front of a writing desk with an open manuscript. Text reads: # archink I: pigment Medieval writers and artists used a huge range of compounds & colours - you can find out more abort their techniques at fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/illuminated. The staple of the medieval manuscript was the deep purple-black of iron gall ink, made by mixing iron sulfate with tannic acid, usually sourced from fermented oak galls. MARIE DE FRANCE, LATE CI2th WRITER After a late c13th illustration of her from BnF Arsenal Library, MS 3142 fol 256
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
🔎 A careful investigation of #chess pieces over the ages sheds a highly revealing light on the artistic & courtly values of many different civilizations.

🎬 Watch THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS: A CULTURAL EXPLORATION: ideasroadshow.com/chess/

🗃️ 🏺 #archaeology #medievalsky #skystorians #art #design
A wide range of chess pieces from different periods in history.
May 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
lenamstrid.bsky.social
Rare gaming pieces with runes found in Tønsberg, Norway www.nrk.no/vestfoldogte... #Medievalsky 🏺
Arkeologiske funn i Tønsberg: Unike spelebrikker med runer
Arkeologane fann noko heilt spesielt da dei heldt på med utgravingar i Tønsberg sentrum i helga.
www.nrk.no
October 15, 2024 at 5:57 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
It's Medieval Monday! Here is my photo of the apse at the Duomo di Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, c. 1180. My pic of 2003.

#medievalsky 🏺
apse at the Duomo di Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, c. 1180.
June 4, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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♟️ What's chess got to do with it? For #Mosaicmonday check out this 12th-c. #chess mosaic in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Otranto, Apulia.

🎬 Watch THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS: A CULTURAL EXPLORATION ▶️ bit.ly/3eUQIWF

😃 Spotlight on the camel with wings...

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #medievalsky #games
Picture of the extensive mosaics in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Otranto, Apulia. Photo by Holger Uwe Schmitt. Photo by Benjamin Smith. Detail of mosaic in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Otranto, Apulia.
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
mearcsteppende.bsky.social
Reading deeply about animals for the chapter I hope to finish this semester, thinking about how they created early medieval landscapes with their communities.

What are folks favorite articles/chapters/books on horses, pigs, cows, sheep or goats? Any period or field!

#medievalsky 🏺 #academicsky
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
For Museum Monday a basalt Byzantine sarcophagus at the museum in Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria, in 2006 (my photo).

On 15 June 2015 the museum was hit repeatedly by Russian airstrikes or behalf of the Assad regime.

#Museums #MuseumMonday #Byzantine #Syria 🏺 #SyriaSky #MedievalSky
Sarcophagus in Syria
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
Here is a #ThrowbackThursday pic of me in the field at Deir Mar Musa, Syria, in 2006. I was surveying the area for the caves in which the monks of the monastery lived. This is actually a very nice one with a patio. The stick was because I had recently broken my foot.

#Syria #SyriaSky 🏺 #MedievalSky
me in the Syrian desert
December 13, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Job opportunity!
The journal Social Science History seeks a new managing editor. More info at the link below.
ssha.org/files/2024_M...

📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 😷 🛟 🐳 🏛️ #history #AcademicSky #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #histsci #HistIR #medievalsky #philhist #Indigisky #edusky #editor #c19 #c18
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August 16, 2024 at 2:34 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
For Fortress Friday here is Portchester Castle in Hampshire, England. Roman fort of the Saxon Shore, early medieval gate, Norman keep, and later medieval additions.

#MedievalSky 🏺 #Castles #FortressFriday #RomanSky
Portchester Castle, the Norman Keep. Portchester Castle, Inner Bailey Gate Portchester Castle, view from Keep across Roman Fort to medieval church. Portchester Castle, pre-Norman enlargement of Roman gate.
December 6, 2024 at 3:09 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
1/🧵 Pottery at the ROM to show my students from University of Toronto! This time it is pottery from Mamluk Egypt and Syria (c. 1250-1500) and pottery from Iran c.800-1300.

🏺 #Archaeology #ArchaeologyOfStuff #Ceramics #IslamicArt #MedievalSky @romtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
The allegory of the pelican drawing its own blood to feed its young (=Jesus) in Aachen Cathedral. Generations of German school children encountered this image in stylised form as the logo of their Pelikan fountain pens.
🏺 #medievalsky
View of the dome of Aachen Cathedral from below showing elaborate ceiling painting and the allegory of the pelican drawing its own blood to feed its young. Zoom-in on the view of the dome of Aachen Cathedral from below showing the allegory of the pelican drawing its own blood to feed its young.
October 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
morpheusravenna.bsky.social
I was listening to an archaeology podcast about the end of Roman Britain and one of the experts stated “most of early medieval period is just dudes LARPing as Roman emperors” and this is a) facts and b) extremely funny

#ancientbluesky #medievalsky 🏺
September 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM
robertmason.bsky.social
Very nice Viking-age find from the Netherlands.

#medievalsky 🏺

archaeologymag.com/2024/11/viki...
“First of its kind” Viking sword fragment discovered in the Netherlands
A unique Viking sword fragment, a 10th-century gilded pommel cap, has been discovered near Witmarsum in the northern Netherlands.
archaeologymag.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:44 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
At the monastery of Deir Mar Musa, Syria, the main buildings are on top of a cliff, & the medieval monks lived in caves spread around the landscape, some of which seemed difficult to access. So in 2006 I took two climbers out with me. I don't like heights.

#FieldworkFriday #Syriasky 🏺 #medievalsky
Me hanging off of the side of Deir Mar Musa. Deir Mar Musa, photo from 2004.
November 22, 2024 at 8:43 PM
robertmason.bsky.social
Here is a sacred space on Sunday. The Chapel of the monastery of Deir Mar Musa, Syria, my photos of 2004. The first chapel on the site I believe dates to late 4th or 5th century CE, the frescoes are 12th century.

#SacredSpaces #MedievalSky 🏺 #Syria #SyriaSky
December 1, 2024 at 10:28 PM
robhedge.bsky.social
Castell Caeriw, yesterday. From the sketchbook. Children were delighted by the trebuchet flinging cabbage, swede and watermelon in the general direction of the tidal mill. Once the coast was clear, I got this vantage point. #castle #Pembrokeshire #medievalsky #sketchbook🏺
Pen and graphite sketch of Carew Castle, south Pembrokeshire. View is from below and to the west, with small trees and bushes in the foreground, with the west and north turrets of the castle rising beyond, connected by the west wall.
April 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM