#Medieval

Read The Signs

Semiogogue

Reconstructed patterns of Medieval floor tiles. Surviving Medieval floor tiles. Note relief on two of the examples. Dog hunting a hart. Woman with squirrel. Note the SQUIRREL! I just

Alex West ~ Medieval Indonesia

siwaratrikalpa

Fact check: nohttps://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/1349818810304352258 Yes, it's a joke. Buuuut it's based on a common misconception. Spices weren't particularly rare in 1350 (depending on where in the world one might have

𝓜𝓸𝓵𝓵𝔂𝓟𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓻 🇺🇸

MollyPitcherPat

1/ Morning coffee and a mini dig on this connection: 2/ Let’s start with their logo. Here’s the evolution... 3/ The original logo looks much like medieval European carvings of

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD

greenleejw

Have you been looking, without any luck, for eel testicles? Not sure how to sex an eel? Well don't worry...you're not alone. People from Aristotle onward tried & failed. Sigmund

Dr Laura Chuhan Campbell

cambiechoo

I teach the Roman de Silence alongside Queer Theory, Christine de Pizan in the context of the history of Feminism, and discuss with my students parallels between the racist tropes

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

A historical fallacy I sometimes see people falling into is the assumption that medieval and early modern people who died for expressing heterodox beliefs died for the *right* to express

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

As a medieval historian I am afraid I am going to have to remind divorced twitter once again that Magna Carta does not refer to "the people". It refers to

Malcolm Walsby

lankian

You may have seen the news of the recent discovery of a re-used parchment by students at Rochester - @RITtigers https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-students-discover-hidden-15th-century-text-medieval-manuscripts Here are some (speculative) thought

The Mountain Goats

mountain_goats

this, btw, is one reason both Latin literature & English medieval lit appeal to me -- their authors are ADAMANT that their stories ~aren't~ original, that they're just passing along

Thomas A. Carlson

MedievalMidEast

Today I found news of a #Crusader lord written within a decade of the events, in an #Arabic geographical source. #medieval #MiddleEast I'm working through place names in an Arabic

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

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

rose 🦇

roselyddon

what we know about the curriculum at the cathedral school at York (shortly before 800) comes from Alcuin's poem 'The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York.' here's what he says

Dr Estelle Paranque

DrEstellePrnq

The Château de Taillebourg is a ruined castle from the medieval era. It is built on a rocky outcrop, overlooking the village of Taillebourg and the valley of the Charente

Prof Susan Oosthuizen 💙

DrSueOosthuizen

The Iron Age earthwork at Borough Fen is one of several #prehistoric enclosures built near the borders of the fen wetlands to manage large #communal herds of cattle grazing on

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and

Alexandra Vukovich

AlexandraVukov1

From a convo today: the 10thc monastic church of Akhtala in northern #Armenia w a series of #byzantine frescoes similar to those of #medieval #Georgia executed under the patronage of

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