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My favourite etymologies: "to curry favour"

Or, the unfathomably dark depths of the equine soul

3 weeks ago 15 votes
Huge announcement: there’s a Weird Medieval Guys BOOK coming out soon!

oh my god!!! oh my god!!!! oh my god!!!!!

a year ago 22 votes
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars

A history of the monastic high life

a year ago 70 votes
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns

Plus a little history of manuscript illustration

a year ago 75 votes

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Playing with Politics

Everything is permitted but nothing is possible.

20 hours ago 2 votes
Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures?

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21 hours ago 2 votes
Spike Jonze Creates a New Short Film (aka Commercial) for Apple

?si=UQ0XdCH-cVGe26AC With his iconic Super Bowl ad in 1984, Ridley Scott began a tradition of accomplished filmmakers creating advertisements for Apple. In the years since, we’ve seen David Fincher shoot an ad promoting the iPhone 3GS, Michel Gondry direct a spot showcasing the iPhone’s cinematic features, and Spike Jonze craft a memorable ad for the HomePod. […]

22 hours ago 1 votes
15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470

The Livre de la vigne nostre Seigneur is an anonymous illustrated treatise on the Antichrist, Last Judgement, Hell, Heaven, Christ and Antichrist. It features 15 illustrations that mark the End of Days. What makes the series particularly interesting is its lack of human figures wracked in pain and horror. Elsewhere in the book, it’s … Continue reading "15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470" The post 15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470 appeared first on Flashbak.

20 hours ago 1 votes
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)

Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by […]

21 hours ago 1 votes