I am quite proud of my article in this collection, which deals with miscellaneous texts added in the margins of early medieval manuscripts (www.serena.unina.it/index.php/sc...). My article concerns the voluminous marginalia in a little-known manuscript from early medieval Sens, . (1 - ThreadSky

arthurwestwell.bsky.social • 28 days ago

I am quite proud of my article in this collection, which deals with miscellaneous texts added in the margins of early medieval manuscripts (http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/scrineum/article/view/11416). My article concerns the voluminous marginalia in a little-known manuscript from early medieval Sens, . (1

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arthurwestwell.bsky.social•28 days ago

Firstly, there are some local annals, recording disasters, deaths and donors in a clerical community that I argue were the cathedral canons of Sens. But there are also numerous citations of classical and anonymous knowledge, around calculating of time (Vatican Library, Reg. lat. 567, fol.19r). (2

arthurwestwell.bsky.social•28 days ago

But these texts of natural science are paired with no less than nine different texts for prognostication, telling the future. They use very varied methods (the shape of the moon, the location of thunder, the day a child is born). The one below is a popular text for dreams, listed alphabetically. (3

arthurwestwell.bsky.social•28 days ago

But they are here paired with high classical and Christian knowledge, querying assumptions I had about them. Pliny is cited to validate divination, but most interestingly, an unknown commentary quoting Macrobius and Vigil discusses how to tell true dreams from false (sadly very faint). (4

arthurwestwell.bsky.social•28 days ago

Thus, looking to the margins of manuscripts, we find evidence that places prognostication within an erudite Christian milieu, avidly discussed and collected at the heart of the Frankish Empire. They were a way people made sense of the world, an impulse that is definitely undestandable today. (fin

hopesteffen.bsky.social•28 days ago

Congratulations, this sounds brilliant!

realhistoryguy.bsky.social•28 days ago

Excellent. Congratulations

lochinvar.bsky.social•28 days ago

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