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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, J.M.W. Turner, ca. 1842

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i need to know every language immediately

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i think we as modern humans have a tendency to forget that historical people were also humans who had thoughts and feelings and dreams just like we do

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Félix Édouard Vallotton - Verdun. Tableau de guerre interprêté projections colorées noires bleues et rouges terrains dévastés, nuées de gaz, 1917.

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somewhat more serious but I think it’s great and interesting that the narrative does not really agree with John’s xenophobia and classism. Because the locals were right to warn him and he WAS wrong not to listen (even if we can successfully argue he had actual reasons not to listen that weren’t just based in prejudice).

Like, he ends up having this horrible experience specifically because xenophobia and classism leads him to view the people warning him as poor, superstitious, uneducated foreigners. And sure, he’s not a complete asshole, he’s touched by the concern rather than annoyed or amused; he comes across to me as the kind of person who’s prejudiced because that’s how they were raised and what their culture is like and they’re ignorant—that doesn’t make it okay or exonerate him, it’s just different from active malice. But the fact still remains that that prejudice absolutely contributes to him getting into the situation he gets into.

Ditto classism—this isn’t as blatant as the xenophobia, but consider the difference in the way John talks about peasants and villagers and the way he talks about Dracula, who’s also an Eastern European foreigner to him. Dracula’s a wealthy nobleman, and while John still points out he speaks “excellent English” there’s still the fact that he holds Dracula’s opinion in higher esteem than that that of dozens of poorer people. He still sees Dracula as a foreigner but, well, money talks louder. So powerful is the classist bias that John has a moment where he outright acknowledges that he doesn’t actually know anything for certain about Dracula, and yet he still gets on that carriage.

Anyway, I just think it’s interesting and it seems like it’d be a subversion of 19th century expectations for the educated Englishman to end up facing consequences for not listening to these people that he, on some level, sees as beneath him.

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one of my biggest ~ opinions ~ about history is about how much the way that people are introduced to history impacts their perception of it as a field (e.g. being expected to just route memorise facts instead to learn instead of say a museum or more interactive lesson form) and my ranting has finally been vindicated by this poll by the american historical association (see esp. sections 3, 5, and 6)

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BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS BOOK OF KELLS

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sometimes i get worried that i’ve lost my love of reading or whatever bc i don’t read stuff that’s like “fun” but i genuinely think it’s bc there’s a notion that academia/studying/learning in general can’t be fun and has to be super stuffy and serious. like genuinely today i almost sat down to read some research i found for my own enjoyment and i was like “maybe i should use this time to read for fun instead” and then i was like “wait this is for fun this is a topic i’m excited to learn about and explore”.

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Elements of an armor garniture made for Reichsfreiherr Wilhelm von Roggendorf, attributed to Kolman Helmschmid and Daniel Hopfer, Augsburg, Germany, 1523, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

As it is currently displayed, the armor represents its parade configuration, designed to mimic the clothing of the famous landsknecht mercenaries. The surviving pieces of exchange would be swapped out so the armor could be used for war or tournament.

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dark academia is when you have to read the crustiest pdf known to man

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Journals, articles, books & texts, on folklore, mythology, occult, and related -to- general anthropology, history, archaeology. 

Some good and/or interesting (or hokey) ‘examples’ included for most resources. tryin to organize & share stuff that was floating around onenote.

Journals (open access) – Folklore, Occult, etc

Culutural Analysis - folklore, popular culture, anthropology – The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture

Folklore - folklore, anthropology, archaeology – The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative, Grecian Riddle Jokes

Incantatio - journal on charms, charmers, and charming – Verbal Charms from a 17th Century Manuscript

Oral Tradition – Jewish Folk Literature, Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics – Nani Fairtyales about the Cruel Bride, Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms

International Journal of Intangible Heritage 

Studia Mythologica Slavica (many articles not English) – Dragon and Hero, Fertility Rites in the Raining Cave, The Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography

Folklorica - Slavic & Eastern European folklore association – Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine, Animal Magic

Esoterica - The Journal of Esoteric Studies – The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid Cathedral 

The Esoteric Quarterly

Mythological Studies Journal

Luvah - Journal of the Creative Imagination – A More Poetical Character Than Satan

Transpersonal Studies – Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology, Dreamscapes

Beyond Borderlands  – tumblr

Paranthropology

GOLEM - Journal of Religion and Monsters – The Religious Functions of Pokemon, Anti-Semitism and Vampires in British Popular Culture 1875-1914

Correspondences - Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism – Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom 

– History, Archaeology

Adoranten - pre-historic rock art

Chitrolekha - India art & design history – Gomira Dance Mask

Silk Road – Centaurs on the Silk Road: Hellenistic Textiles in Western China

Sino-Platonic - East Asian languages and civilizations – Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions

MELA Notes - Middle East Librarians Association

Didaskalia - Journal for Ancient Performance

Ancient Narrative - Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions – The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel

Akroterion - Greek, Roman – The Deer Hunter: A Portrait of Aeneas

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies  – Erotic and Separation Spells, The Ancients’ One-Horned Ass

Roman Legal Tradition - medieval civil law – Between Slavery and Freedom 

Phronimon - South African society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities – Special Issue vol. 13 #2, Greek philosophy in dialogue with African+ philosophy

The Heroic Age - Early medieval Northwestern Europe – Icelandic Sword in the Stone

Peregrinations - Medieval Art and Architecture – Special Issue vol. 4 #1, Mappings 

Tiresas - Medieval and Classical – Sexuality in the Natural and Demonic Magic of the Middle Ages

Essays in Medieval Studies  – The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances, The Sweet Song of Satan

Hortulus - Medieval studies – Courtliness & the Deployment of Sodomy in 12th-Century Histories of Britain, Monsters & Monstrosities issue, Magic & Witchcraft issue

Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU

Medieval Archaeology – Divided and Galleried Hall-Houses, The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall

Medieval Feminist Forum  – multiculturalism issue; Gender, Skin Color and the Power of Place … Romance of Moriaen, Writing Novels About Medieval Women for Modern Readers, Amazons & Guerilleres

Quidditas - medieval and renaissance 

Medieval Warfare

The Viking Society - ridiculous amount of articles from 1895-2011

Journals (limited free/sub/institution access)

Al-Masaq - Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Piracy as Statecraft: The Policies of Taifa of Denia, free issue

Mythical Creatures of Europe - article + map

Folklore - limited free access – Volume 122 #3, On the Ambiguity of Elves

Digital Philology -  a journal of medieval cultures – Saracens & Race in Roman de la Rose Iconography

Pomegranate - International Journal for Pagan Studies

Transcultural Psychiatry

European Journal of English Studies  – Myths East of Venice issue, Esotericism issue

Books, Texts, Images etc. – Folklore, Occult etc.

Magical Gem Database - Greek/Egyptian gems & talismans [x] [x]

Biblioteca Aracana - (mostly) Greek pagan history, rituals, poetry etc. – Greater Tool Consecration, The Yew-Demon

Curse Tablets from Roman Britain - [x]

The Gnostic Society Library – The Corpus Hermeticum, Hymn of the Robe of Glory

Grimoar - vast occult text library – Grimoires, Greek & Roman Necromancy, Queer Theology, Ancient Christian Magic

Internet Sacred Text Archive - religion, occult, folklore, etc. ancient texts

Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry

– History

The Internet Classics Archive - mainly Greco-Roman, some Persian & Chinese translated texts

Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collection - [x] [x] [x]

Virtual Magic Bowl Archive - Jewish-Aramaic incantation bowl text and images [x] [x] 

Vindolanda Tablets - images and translations of tablets from 1st & 2nd c. [x]

Corsair - online catalog of the Piedmont Morgan library (manuscripts) [x] [x]

Beinecke rare book & manuscripts  – Wagstaff miscellany, al-Qur'ān–1813

LUNA - tonnes from Byzantine manuscripts to Arabic cartography

Maps on the web - Oxford Library [x] [x] [x]

Bodleian Library manuscripts - photographs of 11th-17th c. manuscripts – Treatises on Heraldry, The Worcester Fragments (polyphonic music), 12 c. misc medical and herbal texts

Early Manuscripts at Oxford U - very high quality photographs – (view through bottom left) Military texts by Athenaeus Mechanicus 16th c. [x] [x], MS Douce 195 Roman de la Rose [x] [x]

Trinity College digital manuscript library  – Mathematica Medica, 15th c.

eTOME - primary sources about Celtic peoples

Websites, Blogs – Folklore, Occult etc.

Demonthings - Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project 

Invocatio - (mostly) western esotericism

Heterodoxology - history, esotericism, science – Religion in the Age of Cyborgs

The Recipes Project - food, magic, science, medicine – The Medieval Invisible Man (invisibility recipes)

Morbid Anatomy - museum/library in Brooklyn

– History 

Islamic Philosophy Online - tonnes of texts, articles, links, utilities, this belongs in every section; mostly English

Medicina Antiqua - Graeco-Roman medicine

History of the Ancient World - news and resources – The So-called Galatae, Gauls, Celts in Early Hellenistic Balkans; Maidens, Matrons Magicians: Women & Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt

Διοτίμα - Women & Gender in Antiquity

Bodleian Library Exhibitions Online – Khusraw & Shirin, Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Cultures

Medievalists – folk studies, witchcraft, mythology, science tags

Atlas Obscura – Bats and Vampiric Lore of Pére Lachaise Cemetery 

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A Kitchen Maid, 1919, Anders Zorn

Medium: oil,canvas

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Anatomical studies and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), known as one of the pivotal figures in the development of Western art, was also one of the most original and perceptive anatomists of his or any other era. Although he spent over 25 years investigating the workings of the human body, only a few friends and associates had any intimation of the extent of his medical research. He never taught the subject and never published any of his findings. 

Source: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man (by Martin Clayton and Ronald Philo); Royal Collection Trust

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Elizabeth Newton on how citations are, first and foremost, a method of attachment

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Moscow Subway in 1980 (via)

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i like when the academic article is niche and the historian gets mean 😈

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CHARM AGAINST THE EVIL EYE

From Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Wilde, 1919.