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Anna Wilmore

@seatofwisdom.bsky.social

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Medievalist and Catholic; Stipendiary Lecturer in German at St Hugh's and St Anne's College, Oxford

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 21/11/2024

We found a bat for your delight and delectation! Gilded and gorgeous. Also feat: bonus crow. MS. Ashmole 1511.

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Anna Wilmore @seatofwisdom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We're reading Konrad von Megenburg's Book of Nature in the Medieval German Seminar this term. Earlier this week, I read 'The moon is much smaller than the sun, but it seems as big because it is much closer than the sun', and all I could think of was this iconic scene from Fr Ted with the cows!

Two screenshots from Fr Ted: on the left, Ted holds a small toy horse and says 'Okay, one last time. These are small'. in the right, Dougal stares in confusion as Ted says 'but the ones out there are far away'.

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Snow in Oxford this morning! ❄️

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Anna Wilmore @seatofwisdom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

College is looking beautiful in the snow!

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Anna Wilmore @seatofwisdom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello BlueSky! I'm currently a German Lecturer at Oxford and a medievalist by training. I finished my DPhil last year on medieval Marian lyric in French and German cities - a favourite image below, which illustrates one such poem, depicting Mary as a regent, teaching with authority. BnF fr 145 3v

Manuscript miniature, with Mary seated on a chair, with the Christ child and an open book in her lap, teaches pews filled with saints, as well as friars and clergy.

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