#Medieval

Irish History Bitesize!

lorraineelizab6

The earliest leprechaun story is medieval (Adventure of Fergus son of Léti): Fergus mac Léti King of Ulster falls asleep on beach & is dragged into the sea by 3

Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨

MycoJonathan

Canada’s leftist/liberal political parties/media are engaged in a propaganda war of lies against India & PM Modi. US Democrats, UK Labour & their left/liberal media are engaged in same propaganda

John Peterson

thejohnpeterson

The pro-secondary-sources, 'you need to read our introductions first' side of this argument is a kind of neo-scholasticism, all about extracting the syllogisms from books and neatly categorizing and labeling

Dr. Matt, Buddhism stirred not shaken

mattdmilligan

So the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya has a good number of references to festivals occurring at stūpa-s. These seem to have been big thangs with vendors, waived taxes, and so forth. The Chinese

Ulgen

ulgenCLST6

#CLST6 #CYO3The lecture on Medieval Antisemitism by historian Dr. Jacob Lackner from "The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages" Youtube channel was super intriguing. It gave me a huge

Think Defence

thinkdefence

A thread about sandbags and gabions/1 The term gabion comes from the Italian word gabbione meaning ‘big cage’, it is a cage filled with rocks or soil provide protection against

John Spiers

squeezyjohn

Thread: The latest Tory bonfire of planning regulations has led me to make some hasty conclusions based upon living in, travelling througout for my living ... and loving most of

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Anonymity isn't usually a great thingBut the reason anonymity is an asset on twitter is because in our society personal attacks are never too far off for the slightest "zara

The Bill and Ted Test

BillAndTedTest

OK, by special request - and purely because it's on telly tonight - we're going to break period for *one night only* and do a #Halloween Special looking in detail

Bryan Lowe

bryandaniellowe

Interesting history of maks in Japan. While the article mentions premodern precedents, it ignores the example of Buddhism. This reflects a broader erasure of Buddhism from narratives of purity discourse

yas

Iazystardust

A thread to get to know Donovan and why he's an important piece of 60s culture that mustn't be forgotten Disclaimer: - if you think something is incorrect/if you

Dr Rob Cromarty

DocCrom

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Arch of TitusStanding at the eastern end of the Roman Forum, the arch was erected ca. AD 81 as a commemoration for the Emperor

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: Much has been written about diets but the food of our Irish ancestors is not well known. The Great Hunger (Famine) of the 1840s, when over a million died,

StoryGiver

thestorygiver

Ok, we're doing this. Full on thread of why Anita Sarkeesian's take on female Mando armor is not only bad but sexist from the perspective of a large chested woman.I

🇬🇧 David I Birch

dbirch214

History.A Blog about "The Late Antique Little Ice Age."We rightly fear climate change in the form of global warming, but in the later Roman Empire, the greater danger was sudden

Richie. Game Industry Bizdev

richiedewit

Hey devs I told you that an average game on Steam sells 2,144 copies and will make $9,586 in revenue after being on sale for a year.But how did the

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