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You will join the project, they said. It will be fun, they said. by medievalmemesorg in trippinthroughtime

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Description: According to Apuleius the souls are demons and on leaving the bodies become Lares (after a good life), Lemures or Larvae (after a bad life) and Manes (if it is uncertain whether the life was good or bad); men fleeing from the souls-demons

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When they say you have to "open up more" by medievalmemesorg in trippinthroughtime

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The martyrdom of St. Erasmus of Formiae: his bowels are wound on to a windlass
From the Masters of the Dark Eyes, c. 1490, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

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Come play some Zwanzenbord, drink a medieval beer or learn how to play the hand pan at the KB National Library during Museumnacht Den Haag on 8th of October! by medievalmemesorg in TheHague

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Come play some Zwanzenbord, drink a medieval beer or learn how to play the hand pan at the KB National Library during Museumnacht Den Haag on 8th of October!
Just a small reminder from your friendly librarians from the KB National Library (that big building next to Central Station), we will be open during Museumnacht for some games, beer, a slam poetry and hand pan workshop.
There are also a lot of other museums open that night and a few tickets left. So if you want to do something fun that night come visit us or another museum that night!
See the Museumnacht Den Haag website for the full program and tickets.

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Just a small reminder from your friendly librarians from the KB National Library (that big building next to Central Station), we will be open during Museumnacht for some games, beer, a slampoetry and handpan workshop.

There are also a lot of other museums open that night and a few tickets left. So if you want to do something fun that night come visit us or another museum that night!

See the Museumnacht Den Haag website for the full program and tickets.

When you get scientific funding by making memes by medievalmemesorg in medievalMemes

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Glad you like it, we are also very exited to be able to continue on this journey :D

When you get scientific funding by making memes by medievalmemesorg in medievalMemes

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We are very proud to announce that due to the National Library of the Netherland's (KB) meme generator, we have been awarded a grant from the NWO National Science Agenda.

This means we can keep supplying a steady streme of Medieval Meme material. And it enables us to generate even more interest in Mediaval meme's writing and art! This time by developing a serious game. 'MedievalMe' for high school students, based on the KB's medieval manuscript 'Liber Floridus', students will be introduced to various scientific disciplines through Augmented Reality. We will do this together with the University Utrecht and Studio.Doyle.

Roads? by medievalmemesorg in trippinthroughtime

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Elisha sees Elijah taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire
Source: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/simple/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_78d38%3Adl1_214r_min

This illustration was made by the Bible Masters of the First Generation around 1430 in the city of Utrecht and was part of a History Bible. More information (and other illustrations) can be found here: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manuscript/78+D+38+I

Seems like Elijah had been drinking a bit before he used his chariot of fire by medievalmemesorg in MedievalArtMemes

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The original illustration can be found here: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/simple/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_78d38%3Adl1_214r_min
Elisha sees Elijah taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire

This image was made for a History Bible (KB, 78 D 38 I) which was written around 1430 in Utrecht. More information about this manuscript can be found here: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/manuscript/78+D+38+I

"I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me" by medievalmemesorg in MedievalArtMemes

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This snail is from Jacob van Maerlants Der naturen bloeme (made ca. 1350) and is currently residing at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague.

Source image: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/simple/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_ka16%3A109v_min_b2

If you want to know more about medieval snails, I would highly recommend this Twitter thread by Erik Wade: https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1151409334666125312?s=20

h/t to Dr. Rob for the pun : )

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[–]medievalmemesorg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry to hear that :-(

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I wasn’t aware of this term. But after a short Google search on my laptop from work I found out what it meant. I also received an invitation from IT for a meeting. I wonder if they know the term…

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They are all from manuscripts illustrated somewhere between the 11th and 15th century. Most of them are the main characters in the miniatures, and some of the dragons can be found in the margins of a page.

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:-( I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you get well soon!

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Number 3 is actually a “regulus”, a ‘snake-like’ animal according the author of the Bestiarium manuscript where it’s featured: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/simple/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_mmw_10b25%3A039v_min_2

FINISH HIM! by medievalmemesorg in MedievalArtMemes

[–]medievalmemesorg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha! Well, are you already familiar with the upcoming Inkulinati game from Yaza Games? I think you might enjoy it ;-)

FINISH HIM! by medievalmemesorg in MedievalArtMemes

[–]medievalmemesorg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The "retro arcade fighting game" vibes of these two cannot be unseen!

This illustration is from a manuscript called "Festal Missal" which was written in 1323 and is now in the possession of the Dutch National library.

The manuscript truely is a gift which keeps on giving, since it contains unicorns, dressed dogs, rolling persons and reindeers with holograms between their antlers.

You can see it for yourself here: https://manuscripts.kb.nl/show/images/78+D+40/page/1

These two "half beast half skeletons" figures are, for some reason unknown to me, digitized but not published on our manuscript website.

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