Leanne MacDonald

@medievalmac.bsky.social

1164 Followers 935 Following

Medievalist. Teaching writing, medieval literature, and gender. she/her

A screenshot of the Google AI overview that reads "Monica Green is a historian who researched the Black Death, but she is not the cause of the plague. The Black Death's death toll is estimated to have killed 40% to 60% of the population in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa during the 14th century, with a total of 50 million people in Europe alone."
Icon of Saint Christopher as a cynocephalus, or dog-headed man
Classic cover of Wide Sargasso Sea with Jean Rhys, picturing a white woman with black hair dressed in a nineteenth century shawl. She is surrounded by tropical plants.
Joan of Arc in the protocol of the parliament of Paris (1429). Drawing by Clément de Fauquembergue. French National Archives A fifteenth century marginal drawing of a woman with long hair holding a sword in her left hand and a banner with a Christogram
A bathroom selfie of me wearing a grey blazer and a t-shirt that says "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government" and a graphic of the hand of the Lady of the Lake holding Excalibur aloft.
Anakin Padme meme, in which Anakin says "You might think you are smarter than medieval people, but you're not!" Padme, smiling, says "Because medieval people were intelligent human beings, right?" Anakin stares in silence, and Padme repeats the same question with a more serious face.
A close up image of a bright orange California poppy against a blurry green grass background and a bee hovering in the center.
A screenshot from Cawsey and Edwards' Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature that reads "There were boys playing ball there. Suddenly two of the boys began to quarrel, and the one taunted the other "You're no good, you fatherless bastard!" Then the messengers interrogated the boys about this other boy, and they sought out his mother to see whether he had any father."
A screenshot of recent follows, including five with variations on the name Alex and flirtatious profile pics, and one impersonating Guillermo del Toro.