#gestas

[antifascistblackmetalnetwork]

Gestas - 'Ani do tańca, ani do różańca' (Full album, 2023)

Silesia is a land with strong leftist traditions dating back to the 19th century, there were anarchist groups such as the Black Ranks, and socialist or anti-fascist militias fighting the Nazis even before World War II. Also specific to this land is a strong HC/Punk scene, from which GESTAS musicians originate. It should also be mentioned that Silesia was at one time also a strong metal scene, it was here that the Metalmania festivals were held in the 1990s, and it is from here that the legend of the first wave of Polish black metal - KAT - originated.

With all this in mind, we invite you to experience a combination of grind and black metal with a delicate touch of Silesian folklore. Straight out of skatepark concerts or benefits for the local Food Not Bombs, with a distinctly political bent, GESTAS is a musically successful combination of grindcore madness and black metal atmospherics. Years of playing can be heard in GESTAS, and the energy of the live show is also evident; two guitars, drums and bass with interesting effects will satisfy both the punk soul and the black metal heart. So do the lyrics once sung as if from cold-wave post-punk, and once as if from a classic Terrorizer-style grindcore growl. Lyrically, it's against consumption, it's against war, it's against the masters. The title track, "Vivisection," is about performing this practice on a lord by the people before he falls in his grave. From this vivisection, we learn something about the hearts of the rich.

[profamer]

LATIN PHRASE OF THE DAY: ALICUIUS RES GESTAS VERSIBUS ORNARE, CELEBRARE - TO CELEBRATE SOME ONE'S EXPLOITS IN SONG. #latin

LATIN PHRASE OF THE DAY: ALICUIUS RES GESTAS VERSIBUS ORNARE, CELEBRARE – TO CELEBRATE SOME ONE’S EXPLOITS IN SONG. #latin

LATIN: alicuius res gestas versibus ornare, celebrare ENGLISH: to celebrate some one’s exploits in song. Source: Project Gutenberg EBook of Latin Phrase-Book, by Carl Meissner and Henry William Auden Thank you for visiting!

[gogogolem]

An audit today. Three Trees, 2021. Acrylic on paper, W58 x H41cm. #contemporarypainting #paper #paint #autumn #golgotha #triad #tree #cross #dismas #gestas #χριστός (at Hergest Ridge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CicM4VGrjBC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cuties-in-codices]

two maidens killing a unicorn and collecting its blood

in a copy of the "gesta romanorum", swabia, c. 1452

source: Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 67v

[apesoformythoughts]

— Jorge Luis Borges: “Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf”

[thedreadvampy]

just like. bit late to the TMA2 party here but casual reminder that if you stay on that thing where you keep looking for throughlines and Clever Thematic Links between Mechanisms albums and Magnus Archiveses I will come to your house and beat you around the head with a 2x4 painted with the words THERE WERE NINE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THOSE ALBUMS

[maniculum]

I just found your podcast and saw that you covered the Gesta Romanorum in a lot of episodes. Since they are pretty long, can you please tell me if the Episode about the man in the snake cave (Charles Swan translated the title as "Of Deliverance from Hell") is in one of them?

It isn't yet. I just checked, and it's one of the ones I have tagged to include in a future episode. If you like, I can make a note to do it the next time we revisit the Gesta Romanorum -- though that won't be for a while, as we have the next few months already planned out and Gesta Romanorum isn't on the schedule.

[illustratus]

Hjalmar bids farewell to Örvar-Oddr after the Battle of Samsø

by Mårten Eskil Winge

[secretceremonials]

Science side of tumblr, why do I genuinely find Latin fun, while Ancient Greek makes me want to commit trespass against the person?

[catilinas]

why do classics courses in uni make you read like. ‘canonical’ classical texts for one thousand years and not even mention the wild shit in e.g. pausanias this is so fun why did i have to read the res gestae so many times

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

____ Masao Yamamoto

[marcusagrippa]

reading the john williams epistolary augustus novel and. oh. oh. okay. oh.

[citrus-cactus]

The open tabs of my phone’s Internet browser making me look absolutely unhinged this fine evening. #FanficProblems

[wonder-worker]

“…The Anglo-Saxon era is often thought of as having been a golden age for women. Since the late eighteenth century, it has been a commonplace that women in England had better rights before the Norman Conquest than they did afterwards, and were held in higher esteem by society. Before 1066, said one eminent historian in the mid-twentieth century, men and women enjoyed ‘a rough and ready partnership’. As so often with golden ages, however, this picture rests on a selective reading of very limited and debatable evidence. One of its principal props is an account of German women written by the Roman historian Tacitus towards the end of the first century AD. These women, claimed Tacitus, were virtuous, frugal and chaste, and supported their sons and husbands by encouraging them to acts of valour. But this was simply a Roman praising ‘barbarian’ society in order to criticize his own. German women were portrayed as laudable because, unlike their Roman counterparts, they did not conduct adulterous affairs or waste their time at baths and theatres. The reality, unfortunately, seems to be that the status of women in first-century Germany and Anglo-Saxon England was no better than it was in later centuries.”

-Marc Morris, "Anglo-Saxons: The History of the Beginnings of England, 400-1066” / Pauline Stafford, "Women and the Norman Conquest"

Anglo-Saxon England has thus been a Golden Age variously of women's domestication, women's legal emancipation, women's education and women's sexual liberation. The length of a tradition which has changed so fundamentally over time is no guarantee of its veracity. A cursory view of a range of evidence from either side of the 1066 divide casts immediate doubt on the idea of a brutal Norman ending of the Golden Age. The raw statistics of Domesday, for example, suggest a different picture of England on the eve of the Norman arrival. No more than five per cent of the total hidage of land recorded was in the hands of women in 1066. Of that five per cent, 80-85% was in the hands of only eight women, almost all of them members of the families of the great earls, particularly of earl Godwine, or of the royal family. By the tenth and eleventh centuries women other than the queen are virtually absent from the witness lists of the royal charters, and thus apparently from the political significance such witness lists record.”

[cuties-in-codices]

plucking out eyes

illustration for the tale of the two physicians from the "gesta romanorum", swabia, c. 1452

source: Karlsruhe, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 145, fol. 86v

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Maguelonne de Gestas wore a diamond tiara for her wedding to Count Gaspard d'Andigné at Saint Jacques Church in Tartas, France on 25 June 2022.