Girl power!
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Girl power! - head of Holofernes hanging from the walls of Bethulia. Judith 14:1 ‘Dixit autem Judith ad omnem populum: audite me, fratres: suspendite caput hoc super muros nostros’ ('Then said Judith unto them, Hear me now, my brethren, and take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walls’). Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 179v.
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Girl power! - head of Holofernes hanging from the walls of Bethulia. Judith 14:1 ‘Dixit autem Judith ad omnem populum: audite me, fratres: suspendite caput hoc super muros nostros’ ('Then said Judith unto them, Hear me now, my brethren, and take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walls’). Biblia Porta, France 13th century. Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, U 964, fol. 179v.
#medieval #MedievalArt@medieval_illuminations There's an #OldEnglish version of Judith in alliterative verse. Unfortunately its incomplete. But for anyone studying OE, I highly recommend it: for OE poetry, relatively easy to read, and pretty entertaining.
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