Dr Rory MacLellan

@rorymaclellan.bsky.social

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Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England. rorymaclellan.com

Panel from the comic Preacher. Jesse: Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! White supremacist: Wh- wh- wh--? Jesse: Where the fuck is your chin?
Manuscript illumination of the execution of the duke of Somerset after the battle of Tewkesbury, the prince on a headsman's block at the centre, while Edward IV looks on. On the right, the Hospitaller John Langstrother awaits his death. Ghent University Library, BHSL.HS.0236, f. 7v
Drawing of a smiling and saddled horse in a medieval manuscript
Movie poster for Speed Demon
Manuscript illumination of a man dropping his trousers
On the pronunciation of ‘Outremer’: ‘It is up to the reader whether to read it as a French compound, with an ’Allo ’Allo accent, or to completely Anglicise it to ‘Outreamer’. That would probably be closer to the pronunciation used by the English men-at-arms who fought so bravely, so far from home, under Richard the Lionheart and Edward Longshanks. Many of them made it back to England, so there is a fair chance that their blood courses through your veins; you may feel that their opinion counts for something.’ - Pilgrims of the Sword, p. 19.
Jim Dowson (far-right) and Nick Griffin (farther-right) dress in 'Templar' costumes. Griffin looks faintly embarrassed.
A very distressed lion
One of the burnt Cotton Manuscripts
A large 'H' in red with a pen drawing of a bird wearing a tall hat
Form for the government evacuations scheme filled out by Sir Hubert Gough
Poster for the Borough of Southwark Association for preserving peace and good order against Republicans and Levellers, 1792
Geordi meme: "Import American Christonationalism"? No. "Bring back Pelagianism"? Yes.
A monster with a chicken's head with three horns, a bearded human face on its back, leaps out of a coffin to attack a man
A late medieval doodle of an owl.
A tweet saying: 'We order @Brepols to immediately cease & desist publishing the libel The Medieval Journal, (TMI/SAIMS prize essay by @RFMacLellan who has calumniated our corporation in associating its President with the far right movement, and as a hater of Muslims! cf'
1216 charter dated 'anno secundo relaxationis generaliter interdicti Anglie'.
16th century tomb effigy of a man in a habit, with fleur de lys and cross heraldry
AI mural of a Christmas market?
On the pronunciation of ‘Outremer’: ‘It is up to the reader whether to read it as a French compound, with an ’Allo ’Allo accent, or to completely Anglicise it to ‘Outreamer’. That would probably be closer to the pronunciation used by the English men-at-arms who fought so bravely, so far from home, under Richard the Lionheart and Edward Longshanks. Many of them made it back to England, so there is a fair chance that their blood courses through your veins; you may feel that their opinion counts for something.’ - Pilgrims of the Sword, p. 19.
Google search describing Odo of Bayeux as a conquistador
Seal showing an eagle looking at a star
Image of a charter with 'la Sale de Plum' highlighted
A small grotesque in red ink with a hood and wings, sitting on a foliate border
Seal of Robert of Combe, with an eagle
A dark red oval seal with a church with turrets, tiled roof, and central tower. Legend: Sigillum ecclesiae cristi.
A chronology of events in a manuscript, with the line referring to the death of Arthur in 542 highlighted
A man in a green roundel against a red field, he sits on a chair and has a curved back.
Index entry in a book for "Lawyers, diabolic logic of, xxxvi"