For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery—now, researchers think it's partly about sex ** the culture of late-medieval #Gynecology and #Sexology—which physicians at the time often referred to as "women's secrets."
Manuscript Portal Brings Medieval Manuscripts from Greifswald Online
104 manuscript volumes from the Greifswald Ministry of Spirituality and 55 volumes from the holdings of the Greifswald University Library were digitized. In total, this resulted in 83,375 image files with 72,293 pages. Together with previously digitized works, 165 manuscripts stored in Greifswald are now available via the M-V Digital Library and the manuscript portal.
I think #medievalist mastodon may like to know that there's a guy here making a comic book in the style of old #medieval manuscripts. He's doing great a great job, go check @IoannesEnsis toots #medievalhistory
'Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the “biographies” of hundreds of the city’s ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded.'
Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past
Myths about the medieval world have been used for centuries to justify some of the most toxic ideologies and the worst human rights abuses in history. In this book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the long, dark history of "The Devil's Historians"--people who manipulate and use myths about the medieval past to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder.
Revisiting the career of one of the most interesting figures from medieval Wales, outlaw prince of Powys: Owain ap Cadwgan. The first takeaway is that after the death of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, first and only king of all Wales, Wales was left in a bit of a position. Gruffudd's brothers Rhiwallon and Bleddyn, who had conspired against their brother and abetted in his destruction, were left in control of Gwynedd/Powys...1 #Wales#welsh#welshhistory#medieval#medievalhistory#history#historynerd