#Roman

Lisa Spencer

theochick

In response to a troubling trend to wrap the greatest present of the Christmas story in a social justice bow, a thought. /1 As we celebrate Jesus’ birth and condescension

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Researching the early Islamic period in North Africa is challenging for many reasons-The written sources usually used for this period, like histories, pay less attention to the Islamic lands west

Alessandra

alessabocchi

Daily reminder that Nazis weren’t “white supremacists” but German and Nordic supremacists specifically. They largely considered Slavs, who today would classify as “white”, as equal to Jews in terms of

Eduardo García-Molina

eduardo_garcmol

Oooooh! Seleukid reception! Apparently in Assassin’s Creed: Origins you can fight a masked gladiator in Kyrene named “The Seleukid.” The announcer says his name is “Antiokhos the dragon of the

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

Thread on an aspect of European history that I've recently been reading about, and as someone from a country with a republican nationalist tradition, find fascinating and baffling. So back

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

Happy Lupercalia! The origins of the ancient pastoral festival are shadowy even to Romans but on this day we observe ancient rites of fertility, health and purification. The goatskin whips

ft

ft_variations

Honey we’ve been trying to cancel Christianity for 2000 years now but you people are like bedbugs.https://twitter.com/jennaellisesq/status/1275215576684802049 This hopefully goes without saying but history of Christianity and the history

Weeb Mark Fisher

CiaranDold

How is Mario, a clearly Italian man ruled my Princess Peach? The Mushroom Kingdom is in the Holy Roman Empire an explainer. (1/13) The ancient Roman empire had plumbing as

Ugra

_ugra_

THREAD on Hindu Architecture.Recently when the 3D renders for the new Parliament building was was made public, it was mostly met with criticism here on twitter. Criticized for failing to

Craig A. Carter

CraigACarter1

1/8. I am an Augustinian. So are both Luther & Calvin. So are the Westminster Sem. CA theologians. So we have an intra-family dispute. The only pt. I criticized in

The Reading Ape

TheReadingApe

Interesting that the introduction of Pinyin (Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) prior to learning the Chinese characters appears to have transformed Chinese literacy rates (Meng, 2002) - although literacy is defined by

Malcolm Yarnell

myarnell

As a scholar who has researched and written quite a bit about the Anabaptists, can we set a few things straight?1. Baptists are not Anabaptists. Their history is theirs; ours

Ankita Rao

anrao

300,000 people have died of covid. Here are 10 that I think about regularly 1) Dr. James Mahoneyhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/12/brooklyn-hospital-legend-dies-of-covid-19-james-charlie-mahoney 2) Kimberlee Nguyenhttps://www.n

Michelle - Congrats Americans! 🤗

StopVaxxedLies

Thread“Are Amish Catholic or Jewish?” I was asked today. I figured, if someone plucked up the courage to ask me that question, maybe others wonder, too.Amish are an off-shoot of

Tom Holland

holland_tom

A lot of the current navel-gazing over the validity or otherwise of studying Greek & Roman history neglects to acknowledge an obvious truth about it: the stories are amazing. Why

Kevin Daly

kevinddaly

The Sound of Music opened on Broadway 61 years ago tonight. Here's the Preludium from the 60th-anniversary OBCR re-release that restored the tolling bells heard in the Lunt-Fontanne and on

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