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Honestly, nothing is funnier to me that medieval images of Christ's ascension to heaven, because they're all just his feet hanging down from the sky. Yes, this is a thread.(BnF,
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NYT article about @platanoclassics: "He wants to save the Classics From Whiteness." White prof responding: "He wants to destroy the classics." I don't have time to go into all of
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Medieval Christians: "There are so many allegories for Christ! Like, Christ is a lamb, he's a unicorn, he's a peacock!"Me, nodding: "Uh huh, that all makes sense."Medieval Christians: "And, ofc,
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Have I got a *wild* medieval story for you.A woman sleeps with someone in exchange for presents, and her husband gets mad. So she sets out to prove that her
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When we in #MedievalTwitter talk about the University of Leicester's decision to cut medieval studies and preserve race/gender/sexuality courses, we need to be REALLY careful about it, because the UK
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"We had to kill the Vikings, bc they bathed and brushed their hair and our wives couldn't resist such sophistication" is a HELL of a take by medieval English chroniclers.
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Just summarizing some of the various racist medievalisms that seem to have driven the mob that stormed the US capital. So it starts with the Trump rally, at which Rudy
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Medievalist here. So GOP Senator Loeffler's new ads claim she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun" & joke about killing "liberal scribes." Obv from a historical viewpoint, this is just
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Wow, ok, buckle up, everyone. I was googling "medieval butt trumpet" to doublecheck myself on this thread, and...I think I discovered a bunch of...FORGED medieval butt trumpets??? #MedievalTwitter https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/st
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Thread: medieval depictions of Christ expelling the bankers from the temple, in order of his increasing fury at capitalism. Here, he seems like he's having a polite disagreement. Everyone is
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A lot of people have been RTing this map of state-sponsored homophobia (from here: https://ilga.org/ilga-world-releases-state-sponsored-homophobia-December-2020-update) Let me explain why I dislike this map--and maps like it--SO much. Basic
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This dude is getting ratioed to hell & back for this nonsense, & there are MANY ways he's wrong about the history of sex. BUT let's highlight something else: this
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