jenyth evans

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she/her 🌿 jenyth.com content designer @ aquila interactive 🌿 used to teach medieval irish lang & lit 🌿 views my own, not of my employer

A missing decorated initial from Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 207, fol. 186v, cut out at some point.
A decorated initial from Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 207, fol. 114v. An 'I' shaped like a dog decorated with knotwork.
A hand holding a book entitled ‘The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope’ above a desk
A poster issued by the Irish National Land League reading: 'THE LAND WAR! NO RENT! NO LANDLORDS GRASSLAND. Tenant Farmers, now is the time. Now is the hour. You proved false to the first call made upon you. REDEEM YOUR CHARACTER NOW. NO RENT UNTIL THE SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED. The man who pays Rent (whether an abatement is offered or not) while PARNELL, DILLON &c.. are in Jail, will be looked upon as a Traitor to his Country and a disgrace to his class. No RENT, No Compromise, No Land- lords' Grassland, Under any cireumstances. Avoid the Police, and listen not to spying and deluding Bailiffs. NO RENT! LET THE LANDTHIEVES DO THEIR WORST! THE LAND FOR THE PEOPLE!'
a cowboy looking away in fear as he points his gun off camera
Two images of Gordan Ramsay: in the first, he hugs a child and comforts them by saying 'Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous', versus in the second, he looks furious and shouts 'You fucking donkey' at someone out of frame.
A picture of a stone wall with a slate memorial plaque with “Edmond Halley 1656-1742” engraved on it and a gilded gold illustration of Haley’s comet. The famous Oxford bridge of sighs is in the background.
An email from the Vatican Library: "Vatican Apostolic Library Vatican City, April 19, 2025 Subject: Active account CONGRATULATIONS !! The account has been successfully registered and activated."
A picture of a book called The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The plain title page of Van Hamel’s edition of immrama, published in Dublin in 1941
An orange cat held up by its owner while on a beach. The wind is making the cat scrunch its face into the grumpiest expression you could possibly imagine.
Hayoa Miyazaki, cigarette in mouth, leans back in his chair with his glasses pulled off in one hand and his other hand pressed against his head, a look of utter despair and defeat on his face.
'Deictic' comes from Greek δεικνυμι meaning 'I show; therefore deictic particles show something. If you were pointing out a man wearing a full Gandalf costume breakdancing in the middle of the crowd at a concert, you'd poke your friend in the ribs, point, and say 'Wow, look at that guy. The deictic particle gets that pointing something out' sense across: it's stronger than just the word 'that' on its own.
Imagine. Yourself. In a ship. In a premodern port. A time before steam engines and satellite systems would propel and guide the ships. Entirely dependent on sails and winds. On the deck. Waving adieu to all the loving and loved bodies and minds. Slowly the shore and land become an imagination, like your memory. No idea when or where you will land next, because land itself becomes a notion. Water is your reality. Wind is your engine. Stars are your guide.
Gandalf looking around Moria confused saying “I have no memory of this place…”
A small sheep in the margins of a manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De Gestis Britonum, with a mandible (a hand) pointing at it as if to say “Lo! A sheep!”
A picture of an art anatomy book with pictures of faces and proportion guides on the left hand side; my sketchbook with some of these studies drawn out on it; all on a wooden table in a pub with a pint of beer in the top right corner
A verb table for the Old Irish verb 'marbaid' (meaning 'to kill'), showing the imperative forms and listing 'Kill! Let he/she/it kill! Let us kill' etc in the table
A picture of the cover of Saint of Bright doors by Vajra Chandrasekera; a wooden door with orange painted decoration surrounded by a silhouetted cityscape and a yellow background which has fragments of ceramic tiles in the corners
A stele picturing a pig being run over by a chariot drawn by horses (which kind of look more like goats)
An image of a medieval warrior with a helmet with the following text overlaid: “pick your battles. Pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That’s still too many battles.”
A vintage wool scarf with red, yellow, blue and white designs in the style of the initials and decoration from the Lindisfarne Gospels or some other medieval manuscript
a screenshot of a sub stack page which sent out letters of cicero on the day they were written: this is a fragment which is the last recorded letter of Cicero to Octavian, consisting of only “Remember your promises.”
A screenshot of Duolingo year in review saying I made 1109 mistakes this year
A screenshot of the text where two different words 'sath(i)rn' ('Saturday') and 'si(n)' ('that') don't have a space between them
A screenshot of the transcription and translation columns, showing the same sentence in each highlighted in grey
A screenshot of the text as encoded in XML, focusing on how the word 'garb' was encoded.
The word 'garb' is circled in the image of the manuscript, and an arrow is drawn between it and the transcription of the text. A small pop-up window has appeared over the word in the transcription, which represents a truly diplomatic transcription of the word including the abbreviation for 'ar' (an 'a' with a long descender and a line drawn through it)
A screenshot of the website linked in the first tweet of this thread. It shows a page with four columns: one with a manuscript image, one with a diplomatic transcription of the writing on the manuscript, one with a translation, and one with metadata about the manuscript
A screenshot of a page from Macalister's edition of Lebor Gabála Érenn, with one paragraph with three columns of text, one paragraph with one, and one paragraph with two. Virtually every other word has a footnote with different readings from different manuscripts.
A screenshot of the title and abstract of my article, which reads as follows: Title: “Patterns of conquest, kingship and conflict. Sallustian intertext in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum” ABSTRACT: This article argues that Geoffrey of Monmouth engaged with the Roman historian Sallust in a more meaningful way than has been previously understood. First, it examines how Geoffrey structures the De gestis, and argues that it can be read through the lens of Sallustian historiography: the British kingdom rises and falls in a similar manner to Rome in Sallust’s works. This offers a new way of reading the De gestis in the context of the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda. By drawing upon Sallust’s model, Geoffrey removes individual blame as a cause of civil war and instead makes it the inevitable result of greatness, such as that enjoyed by ancient Rome. It then argues that Geoffrey uses Sallustian watch-words and literary techniques in order to negatively characterise King Arthur. Therefore, it interrogates the interpretation of Arthur as a ‘heroic’ figure in the De gestis. In particular, it argues that the use of extended speech is a marker of Sallustian influence, and reading paired speeches together in the De gestis underscores the development of Arthur’s character. Overall, this article argues that classical reception studies can open new ways of interpreting and understanding medieval texts like the De gestis. KEYWORDS: Geoffrey of Monmouth, classical reception, Sallust, historiography, King Arthur
A quote from an interview with Ridley Scott about his film Napoleon, where he rhetorically asks historians who called it inaccurate, “Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.”
a picture of Miranda priestly from devil wears Prada captioned “jenyth? Talking about geoffrey of Monmouth? Groundbreaking”
the carpool meme with Elton John (wearing the most flamboyant pink feather outfit, captioned “Geoffrey of Monmouth”) sat in a car beside Richard madden (dressed in a plain bomber jacket, captioned “12-century historians”)