#Medieval

Maria Dahvana Headley

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I’ve reached the point in the week where I’m arguing with strangers in comment sections about their insistence that Beowulf is a sacred text that cannot be adapted or performed

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The Gupta period marks beginning of Indian temple architecture, as temples in the form of concrete structures were constructed in northern India for the first time. These temples were made

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Lots of talk lately about Yavne as a place in the distant Jewish past or as a Jewish idea, but it's worth remembering that Yavne didn't stop existing 1900 years

Ruairí McKiernan

ruairimckiernan

Had the privilege to hear a powerful speech from @DrMikeRyan accepting @trocaire Romero award today. He 'went for it' towards the end & I scrambled to try capture some of

Mallory Moore

Chican3ry

I feel genuinely sorry for people who feel they need to engage with @/janeclarejones lack of understanding of gender dysphoria and unwillingness to engage with trans accounts of our experiences.I

Dr. Kate Lingley 龍梅若

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Medieval Buddhist of the Day: Quan Daonu 權道奴, who with his family dedicated a stele in 563, near Tianshui in Gansu. It's an odd stele in that the front is

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#Thread The temple architecture in the south reached its climax under the Cholas. The Dravida style of Temple architecture came into vogue which laid emphasis on the building of storey

Tricia Pendergrast

traependergrast

There seems to be a misconception about the use of the word "doctor," as in who is deserving of that title. Some people refuse to use the title "doctor" when

Brandon Bayne

brandonbayne

Visiting the border wall at Alamo, Texas is the perfect culmination to this presidency. It displays maximum violence to the people whose families they separated, called rapists, and labeled animals,

UNDP in Moldova 🇲🇩

UNDPMoldova

Have you ever visited or heard of Wittgenstein family grave from Camenca? Learn more about #culturalheritage of #Moldova and this could be 1/10 monuments to be restored with @eu_near support.

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rebeca6169

The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century.Magi bearing gifts, 4th-century sarcophagus, Rome 4th-century sarcophagus, Milan; one of the earliest Nativity images

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

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

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

hello, evening twitter. please allow me to present to you a drunkenly curated thread of Dicks of the British Museum. (all images copyright Trustees of the BM) we'll *head* things

Marsilio Firenze

marsiliofirenze

With Mars & Venus recently at 0 Virgo, and Sun about to, here's a thread on Regulus. If you don't know about royal stars precessing tropical zodiac by sign, you

Karl Sharro

KarlreMarks

Religions make a big deal of the afterlife but have you ever wondered what the food would be like? Surprisingly there's very little written about it. Catering in the afterlife,

Ed Crooks

Ed_Crooks

It's Saturday, so it's time for another oil history thread. This week: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, the great Persian scientist, doctor and alchemist, who lived between 865 and

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