Medievalist, PostDoc, curiously looking towards the early modern period, currently working on historical whales, but also Kingdom of Sicily, Italy and charters
@humboldtuni.bsky.social
Marie Jaros
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Today, according to The Voyage of Saint Brendan, the saint and his brothers would have landed on the back of Jasconius the giant fish en route to finding the promised land of the saints.
Some manuscripts of this work incorporated planned illustrations, others had enthusiastic readers...
In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...
Maria of Burgundy on an allegorical sea voyage to her wedding with Maximilian I, attacked en route by Louis XI of France, represented as a #whale.
#medievalsky #historicalwhale
📖Jean Molinet, Le Nauffraige de la Pucelle (15th c.); BnF, Français 14980, f. 16r; gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
#Visboeck | Een in 1577 bij Saaftinge aangespoelde walvis, een orca en 2 andere afbeeldingen uit handschrift van Adriaen Coenen over zeewezens, 1579💧Alle 479 prachtige pagina’s kun je inzien via: www.kb.nl/ontdekken-be... Nationale Bibliotheek @kb.nl
Sensation am Meeresgrund: In Norwegen haben Archäologen eine 1.000 Jahre alte Walfalle entdeckt – massiv gebaut als etwa 25 Meter langes Steinband. Es ist der erste physische Beweis einer solchen Struktur (Bildergalerie). 🇳🇴
www.nordisch.info/archaeologie...
Sensationeller Fund in Telavåg: Überreste antiker Waljagd-Anlagen
