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of course it goes without saying that i am deeply dependent on my illuminated manuscript

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Chapel at the cloister of Augsburg Cathedral, Germany. (August 2018)

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*has two bad days* no one has ever lost the plot this severely. theyre coming for me. theyre coming for me right nowwww….

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babygirl i have pdfs that even i don't know about

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SERŽANTE PÍÍÍÍSEK JE BÍÍÍLÝÝÝÝ

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Mošovce, Slovakia 1890s

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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Aertgen Claesz van Leyden (attributed to), The Raising of Lazarus (detail), 1530 - 1535. Oil on panel, 69.7 × 28cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Innsbruck Court Glassworks, Cup with engraved Tyrolean eagle, 1570 x

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medieval beds & sheets

collection of 15th c. manuscript illustrations

sources/links: Chantilly, Bibl. et Archives du Château, Ms. 388, fol. 8v // Paris, BnF, Français 96, fol. 17r // Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, Ms. 955, fol. 10v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 503, fol. 36v // Paris, BnF, Français 112 (1), fol. 244v // Frankfurt, UB, Ms. germ. qu. 12, fol. 50r // Paris, BnF, Français 119, fol. 398v // Karlsruhe, BLB, Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 91r // Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. fol. 1, fol. 86v // Munich, BSB, Cgm 8010a, fol. 22r // Genève, Bibl. de Genève, Ms. fr. 165, fol. 7r // St. Gallen, Kantonsbibl., VadSlg Ms. 343c, fol. 27r // Paris, BnF, Ms-5070 réserve, fol. 12v // Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 210r

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this book website gives you the first page of a random book without the title or author so that you can read it with no preconceptions!!! great for discovering new recs

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removed from the scriptorium for copying down the page perfectly then inking over most of the words so it just spells out 'shit yourself'. no prior it's not a 'waste of velum' it's blackout poetry

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recipes will be like "prep time: 5 minutes" beloved it took me 10 just to get out the ingredience dont underestimate me

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why is privacy so eroded. I get treated like a nutcase if I say no, I don't want strange companies taking pictures of my home and putting them online for maps or whatever. I don't want to be in the background of your tiktok, and I think it's weirder for you to assume I'm okay with it than it is for me to politely ask you to refilm it so my face isn't in the frame. I don't enjoy handing my employer a list of every online account I have and feeling under surveillance when I'm just shit posting or sharing pictures of my cats or garden harvest. I don't want to hear your private calls on speaker on the bus, esp when the person on the line doesn't know you're broadcasting their words to strangers. I don't want an algorithm guessing what will piss me off the most so I spend more time online, engaging with shit I don't want to see or hear out of outrage. I don't want any of this. it's total ass.

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i am interested in the secondary readings about frankenstein !!! i’m now super interested in mary shelley too if u know where i can read her journals or anything ?

yes! u should be able the find her journals on the project gutenberg site (as well as all of her other fictional work) - i’ll also try to add a few readings which go a little bit into shelley herself too. 

The Frankenstein reading list:

Angela Wright, The Female Gothic

Ellen Moers, Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism (includes an excellent discussion on the figure of the english woman & the unnamable monster existing beyond the text itself - something which calls into question who gets given a voice in frankenstein) 

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve.

Andrew Smith, Gothic Literature (section on sublimity in Frankenstein starts around page 42) 

Barbara Johnson ‘My monster/my self’ 

Anne K. Mellor, ‘Why Women Didn’t Like Romanticism: The Views of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley’

Carol M. Davison, ‘Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction’

Mary Poovey, "My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley and the Feminization of Romanticism"

George Slusser, The Frankenstein Barrier

Nora Crook, 'Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein’ 

Fred Botting, Limits of Horror (not exactly about frankenstein but a great further reading)