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#BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay: `#Guingamor is an anonymous medieval lai about a knight who leaves the court of his uncle, a king, because the queen has sent him off to hunt for a white boar. By offering a reward for the boar's head, she hopes to get rid of the protagonist Guingamor […]

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#BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay: `The Brian Boru harp is now a bit of a composite, having been taken apart, ‘repaired’, refurbished, updated, and then finally reassembled in what would have been its original, medieval form as it appears now.` #Celtic Source: Ali Isaac | Substack

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#BookologyThursday 🐈📖 In a Book of Hours (Bruges, c. 1470, MS H.7 fol. 62v, Morgan Library), a cat plays a rebec, a 3-stringed medieval instrument. Linked to “Hey, diddle diddle,” these musical kitties charmed the Middle Ages, rolling to rebec tunes! #BookchatWeekly #MedievalFolklore #Caturday

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Valentine & Orson is a #Carolingian tale about twin brothers. Separated at birth, one is brought up in Pepin's court to be a knight, & the other in a cave by a bear, becoming a wild man of the woods. Valentine finds Orson & tames him, so they become comrades. 👬 #BookologyThursday #medievalsky

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Combining today's #Cat and #Horse love with #Bookologythursday celebrating medieval art and lit

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#Bookologythursday Celebrating art, literature in the middle ages. A very...interesting choice of gargoyle INSIDE the already incredible medieval Cathedral of Burgos

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Medieval author, Christine de Pisan, was considered one of the earliest feminist writers, her works include poetry, novels, and biographies. She was known for her literary and religious commentary as well as being an ardent advocate for women's equality. #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay: `The Sheelanagig is a carving of a female figure using both hands to open and expose her vulva. They are usually to be found on churches dating from the Norman era onwards, which is strange, because Norman […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#BookologyThursday Robin Hood, my first literary crush.

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“May thy designs be prosperous, O chaste & noble maiden, the future mother of heroes, the glory of Italy, destined to fill the whole world with their fame. Great renowned knights shall be numbered among your descendants." 🤺 #BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay #Bulfinch #Charlemagne #myth

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In medieval times, it was believed that unicorns were dangerous prey and hunters could not capture them. Instead, a virgin would be used to lure it due to her purity. 🎨Arnold Bocklin redbubble.com/shop/ap/5016... #bookologythursday #art #folklore #mythology #folklore #folklorethursday

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#BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay: `Over time, Kildare developed into a great monastery and it became an important place of pilgrimage from the early medieval period. It was famed across Europe, but its status – and wealth – came at a price. The sited […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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#BookologyThursday #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay: `Rathmichael Hill has a variety of highly interesting archaeological features, ranging from prehistory through to the later medieval period. With such spectacular views over Bray Head and the Irish Sea, it is easy to see why this has been such a […]

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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose #BookologyThursday

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"May Day In The Fifteenth Century." The Illustrated London News 2.5.1874. #BookologyThursday

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🏰 Fall of Constantinople #OTD 1453, last breath of Byzantium, first toll of the #EndOfMiddleAgesDay. Dante born 1265 weeps across time “O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?" #History #BookologyThursday #medieval Corvin Castle #Im4Ro

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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. ~Geoffrey Chaucer (1387) #bookologythursday

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"When first I came, this valley was a wooded glen. A race of men came and rooted it up. There grew a second wood, and this wood is the third. My wings, are they not withered stumps? Yet all this time, I have never heard of the man for whom you inquire." - "Culhwch and Olwen" #BookologyThursday

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Join us today on #BookologyThursday as we mark the end of the Middle Ages (May 29, 1453) by celebrating with our theme: ✨🏰 ALL THINGS MEDIEVAL in Literature, Art, and Lore 🏰✨ #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay

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Join us this #BookologyThursday as we mark the end of the Middle Ages (May 29, 1453) by celebrating with our theme: ✨🏰 ALL THINGS MEDIEVAL in Literature, Art, and Lore 🏰✨ #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay

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"Periscopes For Golfers. Looking Over the Hill." Bexhill Observer 17.8.1935. #WyrdWednesday #Bexhill #Sussex #Golf

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Completing my journey through Isaac Asimov's Baley and Olivaw novels, I immensely enjoyed The Robots of Dawn.Key returning characters, such as Dr. Fastolfe and Gladia, have prominent roles in the story, and the short story Liar! is a significant foil as well as a source of mythology within the text.

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According to legend, Bladud was a king of Britain who founded the city of Bath. He was also a wizard, and created magic wings to fly. However, like Icarus, Bladud flew too high, and his wings failed, so he fell to his death. His son was Shakespeare's King Lear. #LegendaryWednesday

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“The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.” 📖 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” ~ Thomas Hughes, 1857 #BookchatWeekly 🎥 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays”, 1951 11:55am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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11:55pm TODAY on @SkyArts Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird 2010 Documentary exploring the life of the late #HarperLee, shedding light on the context and history of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel📖 “To Kill a Mockingbird”. #BookchatWeekly

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The Welsh hero Pwyll trapped his enemy Gwawl in a magic bag. Each of Pwyll's men asked what was in it; when Pwyll said "a badger," the man kicked the bag. Gwawl was freed only when he swore to leave Pwyll alone forever. Thus the game "Badger in the Bag" was invented. 🎨John D. Batten #WyrdWednesday

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“The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them” 📖 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” ~ Thomas Hughes, 1857 #BookchatWeekly 🎥 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays”, 1951 11:55am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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A quick 30 seconds of me sewing some quires before the day started at the recent Tudor May Day event at Kentwell Hall. #tudor #tudortuesday #bookbinding #booksky #craft #kentwell #kentwellhall

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Wyrdlings! To celebrate the week of the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling (they throw a cheese down a hill, everyone runs after - it's a good time!), this week's #WyrdWednesday theme is: 'Insane Sporting Endeavours!' Bring us mad matches, crazy catches, & bonkers ball games!

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Join us this #BookologyThursday as we mark the end of the Middle Ages (May 29, 1453) by celebrating with our theme: ✨🏰 ALL THINGS MEDIEVAL in Literature, Art, and Lore 🏰✨ #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay

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When asked why he loved Emily Dickinson so much, James Baldwin replied, "Her solitude and the style of that solitude."

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Red Riding Hood can be found all over the world: in Taiwan, Aunt Tiger is a version where the tiger must eat three children to gain shape-shifting powers and hopes to do so by pretending to be their aunt. A clever girl sees through his disguise. #FairyTaleTuesday 🖼 HodariNundu

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10:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra Wired Love Ella Cheever Thayer’s book📖“Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes” was published in 1879. Lucy Hawking charts its impact on long distance love over telegraph wire, and the technology. #BookchatWeekly www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Somnus was the Roman god of sleep (equivalent to the Greek Hypnos). According to Ovid, Somnus has a thousand sons, including Morpheus (who appears in dreams as a human), Phobetor (who appears as an animal), and Phantasos (who appears as an inanimate object). 🎨Jean-Bernard Restout #MythologyMonday

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“The pain of losing something precious – be it earthly happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.” -Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat #bookchatweekly #booksky

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According to legend, a herdsman stumbled on a cave in Britain in which King Arthur's warriors had been sleeping for centuries. One of the warriors opened his eyes, and asked if Arthur had returned yet. The terrified herdsman said no, so the warrior went back to sleep. #MythologyMonday

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9pm TODAY on @BBCTwo Ep 1 of 3 of #Documentary📺 “Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius” directed by #AliNaushahi and narrated by #JulietStevenson How #JaneAusten ripped up the rulebook and reinvented the novel #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

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"Now some say a forest is silent, that its birds are few...These people have never fallen asleep in an English forest in May to awaken at first light" B.B. 'Brendon Chase' on woodland and birdsong in early summer #ClassicLitMonday #BookChatWeekly

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#BookChatWeekly “‘Tell me, Sune,' said the King, 'is it by the will of the Lord that mankind cannot be happy, but must ever be longing for the things which they have not got, and which, maybe, are nowhere to be found?‘“ ✍️Isak Dinesen, Winter‘s Tales: The Fish

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11:45am TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4‬⁩ Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver Ep 1 of 5, The Truck from Tennessee The Pulitzer Prize-winning author introduces her first book, an eye witness account of a women-led strike in 1980s Arizona Read by Laurel Lefkow #BookchatWeekly

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Join us this #BookologyThursday as we mark the end of the Middle Ages (May 29, 1453) by celebrating with our theme: ✨🏰 ALL THINGS MEDIEVAL in Literature, Art, and Lore 🏰✨ #EndofTheMiddleAgesDay

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