#Medieval

Eye/Lightning Books

EyeAndLightning

Yesterday on The World This Weekend, @BBCMarkMardell made an observation about the tiny selection of books that ever get reviewed, compared with the huge amount published. His words will strike

Kaal Chiron काल्किरण

Kal_Chiron

I have been wanting to write about this. Unfortunately time is something I do not have in current period.The obstacles Hindus had to overcome to build Tejas is legendary. The

Lakuza

LakuzaVR

Having experienced "Scarecrow vrc" & "Dr.Crumbs school for disobediant pets" (through Raindance Immersive), I've been introduced to the wonders of live performance within vr & what it can actually offer

Chris😷Riedel

medievalhistory

Apparently the new twitter debate is about how much you need languages as an historian. Like most people who got a history PhD but had zero aptitude for learning new

Rational π ☪️

m_afnaaan

Thread on Muslim Pioneers and Ancient Islamic Contributions to the Scientific World. First of all no thread is going to do any justice to the vast Muslim intellectual contributions

Łukasz Adamski

LukaszAdamskiPL

1/10 Putin's Victory Parade contradicts Western “never again” memory politics. Putin is dissatisfied with Russia's borders, permits local wars and he demonstrates that, if needed, "We can make a repetition".

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

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

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

Let us commence Round 1!! #SexiestRuins Round 1, Bracket A! Holyrood Abbey vs Dryburgh AbbeyHolyrood was an Abbey but also freelanced as a Royal residence and as a Parliamentary palace

Brianna da Silva

Brianna_daSilva

Just sharing my personal feelings here: I've gotten to the point where I'm genuinely uninterested in a spec fic book/movie/show where the only thing "fresh" about it is a "badass"

R.B. Lemberg

RB_Lemberg

Late night thoughts:Universities existed before capitalism. Universities exist/ed in monarchies, under communism, in capitalist societies, in socialist societies, in every type of society.Universities are, in their idealized form, communiti

Abdus Salam

Abdussalami_

TEN BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN KADUNA1. Emir of Zazzau PalaceYour visit Kaduna is not complete if you haven’t taken the time to see the Palace of the Emir of Zazzau’s. It

Wolfgang Hutter

WolfgangHutter2

I was planning on doing a thread on Werner Sombart's "The Jews and Modern Capitalism", but I read half of it and preceded to read several articles on his career,

Indian History

IndianHistory0

ThreadI did an amateur analysis of NCERT History books from Class 6-10 (common period before +2). Let's see results ~~Class 6 - OUR PASTS Total Pages –– 114Total Chapters -

Edward W.

edwardW2

Speaking as a person who is himself learning Daoism,I understand your struggle. It is almost universally acknowledged that the study of Daoism in the west is underdeveloped compared to buddhism.

C Cawley

RejectIdeology

The real danger in politics now is not fake news but 'fake facts'. Media, state sector, the civil service and politics are dominated by Arts Graduates imbued with the denial

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

The consonantal dotting of the Arabic script is something about which quite a bit of confusion exists, from its origins, application in manuscripts, quranic or otherwise and finally anachronistic imposition

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