Mathilda Osborne

Photo of a page from a manuscript, written in two columns, with one large illuminated initial and decorations in the margins.

Cropped image of the bottom margin of a manuscript, showing a pink dog standing on its hind legs and holding a bow and arrow, shooting at a grotesque that might be an owl.

Look out behind you! A dog shoots an arrow at another drollery (an owl?) in the bottom margin of f. 310r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag

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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

I wrote about one instance of this phenomenon here! (With help from the lovely community of online medievalists!) A case that arose from an article that's useful for teaching, so I tried to write a response that's also useful in teaching...

📖 We can't wait to read this new, cross-cutting look at such an important part of the Middle Ages!

⬇️ You can click below to find out more about the book:

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So I wrote a book about Twitter. Medieval Twitter to be exact---the interconnections between Twitter's textual modes & medieval literary culture(s), plus medievalists' use of Twitter and the #MedievalTwitter hashtag

www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195...

@archumanities.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

What I love about the x-files is that it’s either the best episode of tv ever or the craziest thing you’ve ever seen, there is no in-between

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

It’s such a bizarre episode😂

This past weekend I presented my paper on silencing grief, as part of the Medievalism Transformed Conference at Bangor University.
I really enjoyed listening to everyone’s papers- thank you to the organisers at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social for putting together such a great conference!
#medievalsky

Guests, Strangers, Aliens, Enemies | Cursor Mundi

Those working on medieval Scotland/Ireland/Scandinavia will be familiar with hospitality as an important theme in literature & where dinner invites could be a ruse to kill off guests, so this new open access books looks particularly interesting! #medievalsky www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10....