C. Matthew Phillips

@RevLarryBeane @DrRitaDed This can’t be real…

@DrRitaDed I just wouldn’t feel right wishing you an *unhappy* Easter… 😉 Blessings on your day whatever you call it!

Reminder: Not everyone celebrates Easter. Do not wish me or them a happy Easter without consent.

@MatthewSlaboch I listen to Bach or Mozart sometimes Wagner

we listen to some asmr while grading

Non est hic, sed surrexit (Lk 26:4). Bernward Doors, Hildesheim.

@ProfLRoach I’m saving my Jesus appears to Mary Magdalena medieval art. Maybe this week

@devotiocruci Et apparuit Simoni, alleluia!

Christus surrexit vere

Terrible people

@davidpdeavel @johnhboyer There are only orthodoxies

@johnhboyer Perfect.

Fulton Sheen perfectly describes our neutered intellectual culture. Doesn’t this perfectly capture the sterile character of contemporary intellectual “debates”?

From the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald

‘Christ plunged pressingly and profoundly into every human misery, and the subtle eye of the devil did not detect this great mystery of loving kindness’ Bernard of Clairvaux

@MemoryMedieval Almost no 'lesser nobles signed up hoping for a bit of land'. It was much easier to get land in Europe.

I'm going to explain why this is almost entirely wrong. (Almost because there may have been one exception..) The first crusade was an outrageous, unprescedented expedition. The Pope sold it to them (in part) as an armed pilgrimage. They were expected and expecting to return captured lands to Alexios and for him to govern when their pilgrimage was over (and they returned), assuming success. These were large, general assumptions. On top of which, if you read their charters before they departed, many thought they were likely to die en route. In fact, many did. After the first crusade, the Crusader States were desperately short on manpower. To give you a rough idea of the (dwindling) crusader manpower: Siege of Nicaea (1097): 35,000 Battle of Ascalon (1099): 10,200 Battle of Ramla (1101): 1,160 The point here is to say, if a European noble was motivated and ambitious, and had no prospects in Europe, the window was already open. He didn't need to crusade. Case in point: Guy of Lusignan. He was exiled from the Angevin Empire, made his way to the Holy Land, and became King of Jerusalem. Or Conrad of Montferrat, who also didn't really crusade but almost became King of Jerusalem. (I'm taking a bit of liberty on Conrad but I think its fair) The point here is that if you look at the expectations, what the Pope said, what the crusaders themselves said, how they behaved, and what their options were for acquiring land (should they be motivated)... there's just not any evidence that crusaders would have, or did, treat crusades as a land grab. Except on Reddit...

@medievaldaniel Do you get sense of their titles? Positions in society?

Going through the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv manuscript catalog, and I discovered about 9 more crusaders (2 for the 2nd Crusade and 6-7 for the 3rd Crusade) that I didn't have in my spreadsheet. Good day.

Augustus: "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." Agrippa: "You're welcome."

Alton Triptych in Victoria and Albert Museum

Dear followers! Just wanted to let you know that I prayed for all of you in the Great Intercessions during the Good Friday liturgy.

A relic for Good Friday: a fragment of the True Cross displayed at the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem (Santa Croce in Gerusalemme). 📸2024

@MemoryMedieval An overview #ref-31" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grokipedia.com/page/Peace_and…

@MemoryMedieval The Peace of God movement played a significant role in the development of chivalric ideas

On the flip side, pagans can't help but to be cringe about chivalry as well. Chivalry was not some pagan-only phenomenon. "Had nothing to do with jewish Christianity" or "last expressions of authentic hyperborean". No. Chivalry was the synthesis of (pre-Christian/pagan) Germanic warrior culture and Christianity. Both. You need both. There's a really obvious sniff test to the "akshually its just hyperborea" argument.. where are the chivalrous pagans? Easy answer: There were none. Of course you had various pagan warrior ethics or virtues outside of (or before) Christianity but those didn't have anything to do with the knights of Christendom or chivalry and pretending as if it did is the highest tier of cringe. Another easy way to see this is just one of Reddit's most fantastical larps is to see what the knights, across locations and centuries thought of themselves. ALL of them, that I am aware of, thought of themselves as Christians. In fact, it's probably safe to say that all of them would have ran you through, on the spot, for even suggesting that they were some sort of "akshual pagan hyperborean just pretending to be jewish" or whatever. Chivalry was exclusive to Christian warriors (see Geoffroi de Charny). It was not secret paganism. I don't have an issue with pagans but I do have an issue with people being fake and cringe.

Processional Cross in Regensburg Cathedral Collection