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Hi #medievaltwitter - after watching the #maawebinar on Race, Racism, and Teaching the Middle Ages I thought I'd offer some suggestions on studies of race and art, following the first
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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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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: Let’s talk about the #classstruggle &racism. When we discuss #racism, things can be uncomfortable. 1 thing that comes up in discussions about racism is: “what abt class?” #medievaltwitter #shakerace
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La croisade... aventure chevaleresque, idéal chrétien... mais aussi cauchemar logistique. A la fin du Moyen Âge, les souverains cherchent à organiser LA croisade idéale. Et s'arrachent les cheveux. Un thread 
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Have I got a *wild* medieval story for you.A woman sleeps with someone in exchange for presents, and her husband gets mad. So she sets out to prove that her
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Just summarizing some of the various racist medievalisms that seem to have driven the mob that stormed the US capital. So it starts with the Trump rally, at which Rudy
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THREAD: Time for another tasty thread with resources. No matter if you're a scholar, student, or general public, if you're #antiracist & #antifascist, here's a thread abt misappropriation of medieval
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Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) here. Today, I want to talk about other peoples' work. Often when we tell the story of scholarship on pre-modern race, we center the work of white
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This semester in my Arts of Islam survey, I decided to scrap the research paper and have students collaborate to re-write @Wikipedia articles. It ended up better than I could
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Le dernier épisode de « La belle histoire de France », animé par Franck Ferrand sur @CNEWS, portait sur la période des "grandes invasions". Comme le précédent, c'est un mélange d'erreurs, de
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This thread is going to proceed roughly chronologically re: topic discussed. It's a mix of (English only) primary sources in translation and secondary sources that you can use to teach
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