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Are you an Egyptian lesbian in the 2nd or 3rd century AD? Is there a woman you want to fall in love with you? Well, you might consider summoning ghosts
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John Boswell claimed that David and Jonathan were medieval symbols of same-sex love. I don't know if that's true, but what I *have* noticed is that medieval art depicts King
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John Hines speaking on "Anglo-Saxon" at the Society of Antiquities. #MedievalTwitter"Topic of this talk is generalization." "The sort of generalization that puts a universal label on specific period is universal.&qu
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How did medieval Europeans represent same-sex desire? Was there a "gay" look? A #MedievalTwitter Thread.Caveat: there was no medieval term for queer ppl; same-sex desire didn't necessarily mark an identity.Let's
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I want to summarize a recent article by Dave Wilton that uses linguistic corpus analysis to see how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used generally across the world. Spoiler: it's primarily
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THREAD: as a medievalist, lemme say that, if medieval tv shows and movies really want to be HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, they should have more men wear pink. Historical realism, people!(St. Gallen,
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For #ScholarStrike today, here's a thread about medieval Christian depictions of devils as Black people, including as Black children. This is part of the long history of white depictions of
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Here's a AMAZING 12th-century Middle Irish story about lesbians accidentally having a baby. A woman asked the king to determine her baby's father, bc she hadn't sex with a man
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Little-known fact: Alexander the Great loved to explore the deep sea with his cat. The cat was less enthused.(This is an actual story about Alexander exploring the ocean in a
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Everyone loves gal pals! Just women being friends! Here's a thread of medieval illustrations of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth that suggest that they were gay for each other. (Morgan
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Are you a white dude who talks about his "Viking heritage" and thinks those were the good old days when "men were men & women were women"?Let a medievalist give
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Thread: Did you know cats feature in early medieval law? The 10th-cent Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda listed the qualities of a good cat: “that it not devour its kittens,
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