Abbess Hilde

my knight insists he can sense evil but so far this ability mostly applies to beautiful women who are courting the prince and nicer than average innkeepers

reading Mere by Danielle Giles rn, and I'm genuinely obsessed. I'm sorry these sapphic middle aged nuns from 10th century norfolk are everything to me and I have theories!!!

If thou likest this blog, I can attest this book is for thee

Schism? Schism today?

Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card

there is a level of confidence exclusive to men carrying enchanted swords

I love them so much.

When were thou going to tell me I had a twin blog??

O my godnesse, haile!!!

salve sister!! i don’t really do the middle english translations, but I admire thy comittment to the bit! Bless thee 🩷🩷🩷

This is John the Evangelist, identifiable by the eagle next to him (the four gospel writers all have symbols: Matthew has an angel, Mark a lion, and Luke an ox). Books of Hours always started with gospel readings and illustrated ones include scribal portraits of the evangelists at the beginning of each reading. If you can make out the gothic script at the bottom (admittedly kind of hard if you're not used to it) the text in red introduces the Gospel of John and the text in black is the opening lines: "In principio erat verbum" (In the beginning was the Word).

thank thee, friend!