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Forced Franciscan tonsurization Saturday or something

medieval gender studies

i also recommend the essay "gendering jesus crucified" by richard c. trexler that you can find here & richard rambuss' essay "pleasure and devotion: the body of jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric" in queering the renaissance

early modern european witch hunts + my goodreads list

A devotional image of the Sacred Heart of Mary by the Beuron Art School, a German movement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries which promoted a revival of early Christian and Byzantine art.

“O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favour in the examinations for which I am now preparing.”

[ID: Four images; the top three are of a man in a Franciscan order’s robes, levitating, while other friars and sometimes angels look on in amazement. He has upraised arms and a fluffy beard and seems pretty cool. The fourth image is a saint’s medal shown front and back; the back reads St. Joseph of Cupertino, while the front shows a man soaring through the air horizontally, arms outstretched, greatly resembling an airplane.]

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

The Politics of Dispossession (PDF unavailable)

Decorated Skeletons Of The Catholic Church

I made a rosary for peace in Palestine. The centerpiece is of the Holy Family, the crucifix has a bit of Jerusalem soil in it.