Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
historians.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Historians.social is open to all who are interested in history.

Administered by:

Server stats:

209
active users

historians.social: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

Art History Animalia

🎄Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, please enjoy these festive-looking .🎄
(In the bestiary, the hedgehog's story usually involved it rolling around and collecting fallen fruit on its quills to bring home to its children - fruit kebabs to go!)

"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, 1588 f. 72v https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/23851/manifest https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmmetz/12497461423/in/album-72157640916985905/
"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills Verdun, Bibl.mun., ms 0107, f. 008 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/9684/canvas/canvas-1283591/view
"Christmas hedghog" - detail of an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, hedgehog with red and green round fruits on its quills Morgan Library, MS M.81 (The Worksop Bestiary), folio 10v http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/3/77019
"Christmas hedghogs" - detail of an illiustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, two hedgehogs with red and green round fruits on their quills Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 101 (Bestiary of Hugh of Fouilloy), folio 189v https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery217.htm
Dec 25, 2022, 03:05 AM·Public·Web
72boosts·119favorites
Public
Peters J Vecrumba

@art_history_animalia "E" is for the beloved "ezis" in every Latvian children's "ABC".
"Guess!" "Carries around needles but doesn't know how to sew."

Public *
Art History Animalia

@vecrumba Thanks for sharing...also delighted to discover there was once a 1 Lats coin featuring a hedgehog! 😃🦔

digital photo of a silver-colored coin: Latvia, 1 Lats, 2012 commemorative, coat of arms on obverse, hedghog on reverse. Full description via https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34550.html : Obverse: The large coat of arms of the Republic of Latvia, with the year 2012 inscribed below, is placed in the centre. The inscriptions LATVIJAS and REPUBLIKA, each arranged in a semicircle, are above and beneath the central motif, respectively. Reverse: A hedgehog with the numeral 1 on its spines is featured in the centre of the reverse. At the top on the left, the inscription LATS is arranged in a semicircle. Issuer: Latvia Type: Circulating commemorative coin Year: 2012 Value: 1 Lats (1 LVL) Currency: New lats (1993-2013) Composition: Copper-nickel Weight: 4.8 g Diameter: 21.75 mm Thickness: 1.8 mm Shape: Round Technique: Milled Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized: 1 January 2014 Number: N# 34550 References: KM# 135, Schön# 129 image file: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_Lats_Hedgehog.png
Public
Jonas

@art_history_animalia This is what so many papers in information science and media studies looked like back in the late 2010s! 😆 #NetworkGraphs

Public
Rich Stein (he/him)

@art_history_animalia
👆Attn: @KiwiHellenist
Curious about the red and green — already Christmas colors by the 16th Century?

Also here is a most unusual Christmas card
historians.social/@art_history

And how did "Xmas" become a shortened version of Christmas? Is that only an American artifact?

Thanks!

Public
Peter Gainsford

@RunRichRun @art_history_animalia As to the colour scheme I don't know, but the abbreviation 'Xmas' simply comes from the first letter of Χριστός ('Christ').

I don't know where or when it started to be used in English, but its origin goes back to early Christianity!

ExploreLive feeds
About