PugJesusFrankish warriors of late antiquity and the early medieval period
Connect ParanormalThis essay traces the catoblepas from ancient natural histories through medieval bestiaries to modern literature and games. #catoblepas #medieval https://connectparanormal.net/2026/06/30/the-catoblepas-ancient-beast-of-death/
The Catoblepas: Ancient Beast of Death
This essay traces the catoblepas from ancient natural histories through medieval bestiaries to modern literature and games. It examines classical sources, symbolic interpretations, artistic transmission, and naturalistic explanations, showing how a possibly real African animal evolved into a lethal mythical creature embedded in enduring cultural imagination.
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureAbhainn, allt, uisge: Mar a tha a’ Ghàidhlig a’ sruthadh tron chruth-tire
River, stream, water: How Gaelic flows through the landscape
19 September, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free
Gaelic names for Scotland’s rivers & burns reveal reveal the spread of Gaelic across Scotland, & how medieval people understood their landscape
#Scottish #Scotland #toponymy #placenames #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #medieval
Cavallo Pazzo
Martin StephensonA post from the Waving Flag archive:
Mercenary Gunners In Persian Service
Originally posted: 22 March 2015
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2015/03/mercenary-gunners-in-persian-service.html
#medieval #renaissance
#tabletop #wargames #miniatures
Mercenary Gunners In Persian Service
Originally posted: 22 March 2015
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2015/03/mercenary-gunners-in-persian-service.html
#medieval #renaissance
#tabletop #wargames #miniatures
A post from the Waving Flag archive:
15 mm Wars of the Roses Archers (Part 1/4)
Originally posted: 8 March 2021
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2021/03/15-mm-wars-of-roses-archers-rebasing-1.html
#medieval
#tabletop #wargames #miniatures
15 mm Wars of the Roses Archers (Part 1/4)
Originally posted: 8 March 2021
https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2021/03/15-mm-wars-of-roses-archers-rebasing-1.html
#medieval
#tabletop #wargames #miniatures
Medieval IlluminationNebuchadnezzar. Rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik, Regensburg ca. 1400-1410. LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 33, fol. 215v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
#medieval #MedievalArt
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The answer to "In what language was the Magna Carta originally written?" is Latin!
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Mick GarrattShitlington: A Cross, a Fair, and Eight Centuries of Unfortunate Spelling
In the Peak District sits a hill called Shatton Moor. My Duke of Edinburgh groups used to home in on it every time, like pigeons to a statue, and the jokes wrote themselves.
The name is almost certainly Old English. “Scēat-tūn” — a corner ...
#NorthTyneValley #Northumberland #etymology #history #medieval
