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Jerusalem Delivered: 3 Capture of Jerusalem

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<p>In early 1099, the main body of ‘armed pilgrims’ who had obeyed Pope Urban II’s call to Holy War, left the city of Antioch and started their long march to Jerusalem. They leave Prince Bohemond I behind, ruling another of the new Crusader territories.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_37147" style="width: 963px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/dorepeterbarthelemyordeal.jpg"><img alt="dorepeterbarthelemyordeal" class="size-full wp-image-37147" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/dorepeterbarthelemyordeal.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-37147">Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Peter Barthelemy Undergoing Ordeal by Fire (1877), illustration for Joseph François Michaud’s ‘History of the Crusades’, further details not known. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<p>On the march, the mystic Peter Bartholomew (or Barthelemy), who had discovered the Holy Lance in Antioch, continues to have visions. Faced with growing scepticism from others, he volunteers to undergo ordeal by fire to prove his veracity. Gustave Doré captures this dramatic event in his <em>Peter Barthelemy Undergoing Ordeal by Fire.</em> Although initially claimed that he survives the ordeal unscathed, he dies less than two weeks later from the severe burns he sustained.</p>
<p>This march takes the crusaders southward along the Mediterranean coast, in parts on quite a nar

I think I'm going to do an occasional mediaeval marginalia series for your entertainment and diversion. Let's start with this one. It's from the Maastricht Psalter (14th century), and it proves that cats never change!

#cats #spinning #mediaeval #marginalia

14th-century mediaeval marginalia: a nun is spinning, and on the left of the image a cat is playing with the spindle that hangs from her right hand.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städler Museum, stitched pano of the Altenberg Altarpiece, ca 1330, wings by Rheinischer Meister, Madonna and Child by Kölner Meister.
#museum #art #mediaeval #photography

On a box pedestal against a wall, both painted deep green, an intricately carved and painted altarpiece in the form of a box with two doors opening to the side. The inside of the doors are brilliantly painted and gilded with scenes of people, angels, and beasts. The interior of the box contains a Madonna and Child, a statue fully in the round, gilded; framed by a carved "altar screen" device of gothic arches and traceries, gilded and painted. The whole is amazingly well preserved for something almost 700 years old.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-ArtInEngland/pages/009-doorway-royton-lenham-kent/

Royton Manor had a #mediaeval chapel at one time, which may be where the #door was, or it might have been the entrance to the main house, which later became a farmhouse.

The tiny diagonal lines used for shading in this #engraving made it fun to clean up with #GIMP

#GIMP3 #fobo #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #entrance #Gimp_3

A medieval wooden door made from vertical planks of wood, and with a carved stone doorframe. The door has a curved or arched top, and the frame fills in the corners on either side of the top of that archway with carving. Also a door knocker and a wooden door latch.

Here is #mediaeval #folk band #Saltabraz of #France.

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#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

The Bridge at Baysdale: A Relic of a Lost Priory

This bridge in Baysdale is more than a quaint curiosity. Its single arch spans Black Beck with quiet dignity, yet the quirky little parapets give it certain character. These are later additions, added in the seventeenth or eighteenth century by someone with a flair for decoration but little se ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/10/01/the-bridge-at-baysdale-a-relic-of-a-lost-priory/

#Basedale #Baysdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #mediaeval

A small pagan altar at a mediaeval fair we visited late last summer.
#mediaeval #pagan #paganism #altar #history #germany #heathen #germanicpagan #writer #writing #photography #spirituality #europe

Pagan altar at a mediaeval fair, featuring a prominent animal skull

Another side of the Palacio del Infantado
#guadalajara #spain #palace #gothic #history #architecture #mediaeval #window #shrubbery

This is Palacio del Infantado in Guadalajara, Spain. Currently a museum. It's a beautiful building and I honestly didn't know what to do with it.
#guadalajara #spain #palace #gothic #history #architecture #mediaeval #sky

Edlingham Castle and the mediaeval St John The Baptist Church in a lovely setting not far from Alnwick in Northumberland. March, 2025
The church is still in use.

#blackandwhitephotography #castles #ruins #churches #mediaeval #stainedglass

The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-ancient-hollow-way-to-nowhere-in-particular/

#Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

Archeology: Mysterious medieval 'Nordic' presence discovered on French Atlantic island.

Excavations carried out on the Ile de Ré have uncovered a series of burial sites, containing objects evoking 'Nordic' cultures that date back to the Carolingian period.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250211-archeology-mysterious-medieval-nordic-presence-discovered-on-french-atlantic-island?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#France #Nordic #History #Archeology #Archaeology #Medieval #Mediaeval #Scandinavian #Viking #Atlantic

The Nuns’ Well: The Last Remains of St Andrews Priory

The so-called Nuns’ Well in Ryedale is a peculiar sight, sitting incongruously among the trees. A perfect circle, 2.4 metres across, with a stepped stone base and sides, it is thought to be medieval. Its water, fed by springs, is clear enough to impress those easily impressed by such things. It lies due north of the site of the Benedictine ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=37422

#Hawnby #NorthYorkMoors #Ryedale #history #mediaeval

A Dreary Day, a Doubtful Saint, and Too Much Christmas

A dreary, cold day, though mercifully not freezing, but with rain looming. St. Thomas’ Day Eve—dedicated to the patron saint of doubt—drapes itself in the sort of gloom that makes you wonder why you bothered to look out the window. That housing estate west of Guisborough in today’s photo? I had been blind to its charms until no ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=37025

#Guisborough #HuttonLowcross #NorthYorkMoors #folklore #mediaeval

From Leprosy to Ropewalks: The Forgotten History of Spital Beck

A tired old fishing boat, its hull a faded patchwork of blue and white, sits abandoned on the shingles at Whitby harbour, marooned by the tide and neglect. It has not tasted the sea in years. This sad tableau, no doubt, repeats itself in harbours all around our coast. In the background, a jumble of red-tiled buildings line the shore, framed by ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36989

#whitby #18thcentury #history #mediaeval

"Ye ferth day fisches sal make roryng hidus & hevy to mannes heryng" Section of a 15th-century stained glass illustrating the popular 14th-century middle English poem The Pricke of Conscience, which describes the last 15 days of the world. Modern translation: "[On] the fourth day fishes shall make a roaring noise hideous and dreary to men's hearing." #ThePrickeOfConscience #Mediaeval #Churches #AllSaintsChurchNorthStreet #York #FensterFreitag

A stained glass window depicting three "fish" heads emerging from the clear water into the blue sky. The outer two are the most fish-y, but the middle and largest one appears more wolf-like.

Kasteel Ooij, duiventoren
Ooij Castle, Pigeon tower
Burg Ooij, Toubenturm

#photography #castles #mediaeval #history #erfgoed #heritage #erbe

Scheef staande toren bij de resten van kasteeel Ooij in het gelijknamige dorp in de Ooijpolder bij Nijmegen. De resten van het hoofdgebouw zijn ook nog te zien, evenals aan de rechterkant een opslagplaats van spullen.

Leaning tower at the remains of Ooij castle in the village of the same name in the Ooijpolder near Nijmegen. The remains of the main building can also be seen, as well as a storage place for items on the right.

The Aiggin Stone: a Resilient Guidepost of Blackstone Edge

On a damp, somewhat joyless morning, we embarked on a foray up Blackstone Edge, detouring briefly from the misery of the M62 to scale this Pennine hill. Past the summit trig. point and “Robin Hood’s Bed”—an erratic boulder unceremoniously perched there as though in mockery—we came upon the Aiggin Stone, a relic with pretensions of history that some mig ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36681

#BlackstoneEdge #Pennines #mediaeval

Kildale’s Wet Dig

And so the rains came to St. Hilda’s chapel, bringing a somewhat damp close to the archaeological dig season in picturesque Kildale. What mysteries lie behind those enigmatic stone footings — which bear more than a passing resemblance to a garden feature than to any sacred structure — must now remain hidden for yet another year. The grandly dubbed ‘cloisters,’ a few len ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36467

#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #Archaeology #history #mediaeval

The Overlords of Kildale

Park Nab, a smallish sandstone crag, much favoured by the climbing fraternity, who no doubt delight in the view over Kildale—suggested by some to be the dale of a forgotten Viking named Killi. Perhaps he might be one of those unfortunate Norsemen discovered inconveniently buried under the church floor during the 1868 rebuild. Quite fitting for a village where the church tower shyly peek ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36405

#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #mediaeval

#mediaeval

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