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Dominic John

@domjohn.bsky.social
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Lapsed academic, idler, some time medievalist. "Phlegmatic" apparently.

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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sir Oliver Ingham, d.1344, Seneschal of Gascony, defender of Bordeaux, conqueror of (part of) the Agenais at the beginning of the 100 Years' War, lies uncomfortably on his bed of pebbles in the chancel of Holy Trinity, Ingham, Norfolk, in dappled light.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Three Quantocks Towers: Bishops Lydeard; Combe Florey; Crowcombe
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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 01/02/2025
I've spent much of my life in three locations, these agricultural land classification maps show that grade 3 land predominated, yet here in Norfolk it is mainly arable, in North Somerset mainly pasture, in East Dorset much more arable. All historically were mixed.
https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/127056?category=5954148537204736https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/144017?category=5954148537204736https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/144017?category=5954148537204736Map key Grade 1-5, urban, land predominantly not in agricultural use.
https://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6257050620264448?category=5954148537204736
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Actor David Hemmings as Louis Nolan pointing up a valley in the film "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Pavement in front of Becket's shrine in the extended, post-fire east end of Canterbury Cathedral. Astrological/monthly labour roundels clearly reordered and incomplete after being moved post fire. But the Opus Sectile? Cosmati as recently suggested? Hmm. Doesn't look right. Must read Warwick Rodwell
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Moon and Venus, just now on my phone, Norwich
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MythicBrush @efhoward.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A mind-boggling sculpture! The Portonaccio Sarcophagus vividly depicts Roman cavalry vs. Germanic tribes along the Danube—far from Gladiator's (2000) take. Bonus: it features "battle truncheons," rare in Roman art. #RomanHistory #Archaeology #AncientRome www.athensjournals.gr/history/2015...
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Pieter Van Ostaeyen @p-vanostaeyen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Any other historians of the Crusades here ? Want to make a starter pack on the Crusades
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's the Feast of St Nicholas tomorrow, an important holiday in many parts of Europe. Here is St Nicholas in late 11thC frescoes in the great Carolingian monastery at Novalesa, high in the Cottian Alps near the Mont Cenis pass above Susa, calming the waters and with St Eldradus, an early Abbot.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Ayshford Chapel, a private chapel built in the 15thC next to the manor house, Ayshford Court, in mid-Devon, near Tiverton. @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In beautiful Ayshford Chapel, Devon.
A vase with dead hydrangeas and a bunch of dead roses on a church table in front of a salmon-pink wall.
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Part of a slideshow of my Autumn photos taken over the last two months, #Dartmoor #Devon #landscape #photography
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Egg and dart, dentils, in the cloister at San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Rome
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Light and shade in Norwich Cathedral cloister
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Norwich Cathedral cloister east walk, looking north towards the Prior's Door
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Walpole St Peter, Norfolk
Looking west down the arcaded nave of a large late-medieval parish church with sunlight streaming through the south aisle windows.
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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The French national geographical institution have just released online the Cassini maps (done by triangulation?) started in 1756 and not finished until after the revolution. www.ign.fr/institut/esp...
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Une nouvelle version interactive de la carte de Cassini, première carte intégrale du royaume de France, mise en ligne sur le Géoportail
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
Map of London, East. Colour coded.
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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 14/11/2024
So, lettering. For the recent influx of people from the hell site, I carve lettering on stone with a hammer and chisel. Here's a quick read on how and why: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/blog/carving... You want video? Allow me: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Any questions?
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Incipit page of the Gospel of John St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 60; Evangelium S. Johannis; 8th century; p.5 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 12/11/2024
Yup, I'm still culling and editing images from Botswana. This squacco heron with breakfast is for @everyheron.bsky.social :)
A squacco heron in long grass on the bank of the Chobe river, has speared a small black fish.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Fare thee well, Phil. This was Phil's song and the lyrics are as fitting for him as they were for his father. RIP Phil Lesh www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxjv...
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Box of Rain (2013 Remaster)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead - Topic
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
"Cantate domino canticum novum" BL Cotton MS Vespasian A I; ׳The Vespasian Psalter'; 8th century; England (Canterbury); f.93v
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
This is awful.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
A tiny sliver of temperate rainforest along Danes Brook at Slade Bridge on Exmoor #TemperateRainforest #Exmoor
Two tree trunks with prominent roots on a steep slope covered in moss and lichensA twisted tree trunk leans out over a fast-flowing moorland stream
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I keep returning. Still transcendental.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Musical angels in the east window at Shelton, Norfolk
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Musical angels in the east window at Shelton, Norfolk
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Annunciation in the East Window at Shelton, Norfolk. Early 16thC. #NorfolkChurches #StainedGlassSunday
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
St Margaret's, Paston. The Pastons lived next door, but lavished more patronage on Bromholm Priory, a mile down the road, than on St Margaret's. It's quite a modest, aisle-less building, mostly C14, though the nave is wide (recalling Elsing, also early C14) covered by a mesmeric scissor-braced roof
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Pensive at Paston church this morning
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
An amazing glass garland bowl, that represents a peak of Roman glassmaker’s skill at producing vessels. Very few ancient vessels were made of large sections or bands of different colored glass, and this is the only known example that combines the technique with millefiori (mosaic glass) decoration.🏺
The picture shows a Roman glass bowl consisting of four large segments of colorless, purple, yellow, and blue glass. Applied to the interior of the bowl at the center of each segment a hanging garland.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
A freezing, misty morning on the sea wall at Walcott, Norfolk, sea merging with sky, shades of grey.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
A scruffy Turnstone on the sea wall at Walcott, Norfolk, this morning
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Coronation of a prince, perhaps Charles the Bald BnF MS Latin 1141; Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (?), frg.; 9th century, c.869 CE-870 CE; Palace School of Charles the Bald; f.2v @bnf.bsky.social
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I see the Conservative party can't even figure out a museum picture. They've shown the Natural History Museum, which is famously NOT where the Elgin Marbles are located.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
A tiny sliver of temperate rainforest along Danes Brook at Slade Bridge on Exmoor #TemperateRainforest #Exmoor
Two tree trunks with prominent roots on a steep slope covered in moss and lichensA twisted tree trunk leans out over a fast-flowing moorland stream
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Church house, Crowcombe, Somerset. Early 16th century
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
St Æthelthryth holding a book and a flower, surrounded by lettering in gold: 'Imago s[an]cte Atheldrythe abb[atisse] ac perpetue virigin[is]' BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963 CE-984 CE; England, S.; f.90v @BLMedieval
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Dubliners, The Ozric Tentacles Mahavishnu Orchestra Incredible String Band, The National Health Isley Brothers, The Country Joe and the Fish
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Raddington, Somerset. One of the more remote churches I've visited. In the Brendon Hills near Exmoor. Unusually for the area, the tower had been recently rendered.
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Tash Rabat, Kyrgyzstan. Conventionally held to be a 15th century caravanserai. Located above 3000 metres in the Tian Shan mountains near the Torugart Pass leading down to the Tarim Basin and Kashgar on one of the routes of the Silk Road.
Tash Rabat,a stone rubble built building with a large entrance arch and a low dome, in a snowy mountain landscape.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages. The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest.
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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
An Ancient (Archaic) Greek aqueduct from the 6th century BCE that runs for 11.5km on the island of Naxos 🏺 One of many casual reminders that aqueducts weren’t a strictly Roman invention! AncientSky
A cross-section of an embankment next to the road with a row of circular terracotta pipes running through it in a channel. An Ancient Greek Archaic aqueduct from Naxos.
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Behold the Equinox! BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c. 1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Listening to Coltrane. Impressions. Transcendental.
Portrait photo of John Coltrane
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Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Testing...testing. New here. Obviously. Hello.
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