This week in medieval things on the Interwebs: Embroidering nuns, painting monks, “the gospel of Jesus’ wife”, and a comparison between Greco-Roman and Slavic gods.
- Slavic and Greek-Roman Mythology, Comparative Mythology – Medievalists.net
- Spoiler: They’re interestingly similar 😉
- The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife is Most Likely Not a Modern Fake -Smithsonian Magazine
- A prudently cautious article. This is an article from the November 2012 edition of the magazine that describes the find: The Inside Story of a Controversial New Text About Jesus
- Needlework by Nuns: A Medieval Religious Embroidery – Metropolitan Museum of Art
- This is actually a link to a digitized version of one of their publications – the article is in the PDF file. You might want to file away the idea that The Met has searchable digitized publications in your memory, or your browser bookmarks, just sayin’ …
- Byzantine monks used asbestos under wall paintings – The History Blog
- Asbestos is such an odd natural compound, when you think about it. It looks like fibers of cloth, but it’s in the ground! This article gives an overview of the material as mentioned in history.
The Middlegate Cryer 