#medievalsky

In old Irish Brehon law they wrote the bee-judgements, 'bechbretha'! These covered all sorts of issues such as what to do if bees trespassed (!), how to decide who owned bees, how to punish bee or honey theft & how much honey a beekeeper should offer neighbours! #medieval #medievalsky #HoneyBeeDay 🐝

St Gobnait used honey in healing & her bees were super-heroes! One day her cattle were being stolen by the O'Donoghues of the Glens, & she drove them off with her bees! In another version, the beehive turned into a bronze helmet & the bees turned into soldiers! #medieval #medievalsky #HoneyBeeDay 🐝🍯

15 Aug: Feast of death of Mary/The Dormition/Assumption of Mary into Heaven. Jesus often pictured coming to deathbed to greet her soul (Prof Elva Johnston). Assumption from Latin assumptio, "a taking"; bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary. 🎨El Greco 🎨Titian

Big Berks 2027 - Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (berksconference.org)

Berks workshops for early to mid-career scholars in the history of women, gender and sexualities. Papers from all time periods/geographies welcome in all the seminars, although I’d be especially happy to have premodern ones in the marriage seminar berksconference.org/big-berks-20... 🗃️

Delighted to see that my copies of Archaeology magazine have arrived, featuring @medivalist.bsky.social and myself talking about our recent article on arctic falcons in ninth-century Baghdad! #medievalsky #archaeology #vikings @archaeologymag.bsky.social

This time, Neo-Latin! My “golden trio” of conferences for this summer will conclude with my paper, “Medicine in the Form of a Letter: Giovanni Manardo’s Epistolae medicinales as Neo-Latin Scholarly Practice,” at Sapiens ubique civis XIII in Szeged. klasszika.hu/suc/

Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall with Sarah Weinman (events.leapevents.com)

NYC plus folks, #medievalsky #skystorians #bio dreams can maybe come true? This is certainly my dream book convo events.leapevents.com/event/mcdoug... will there be some Madonna, @sarahweinman.com ?

14 Aug: Ss Eichlech, Cumméne, Cóemán, Broccán mac Lugdach & Daigre's sons (Echlech, Cuimmein, Coemhan). Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Not known when or where they lived. 📷13th C Cranfield church ruins near Randalstown, Antrim towards Lough Neagh. ©mine

14 Aug: Feast of vigil of the death of the Virgin Mary. Believed Jesus awaited the soul of his mother, in a reversal of their image as mother & child (Prof Elva Johnston). The Dormition, death of the Virgin Mary, 15 Aug. 🎨Book of Kells f7v in @tcdlibrary.bsky.social 🎨Unknown

14 Aug: St Fachtna mac Mongaig/Fachanan (d. c 600) founder of Ros Ailithir/ #Rosscarbery #Cork. Mac Mongach "Hairy Child"; born with hairy head! School (centre former Ross diocese)/pilgrimage site. "He never spoke that which was mean, Nor aught but what was pleasing to his Lord"!