#Hagiography

EHS

EcclesHistSoc

Alright, folks, let's talk a little bit about why late medieval vernacular #hagiography is an intriguing bundle of unanswered questions. Buckle up for provenance, #fragmentology & textual shenanigans! 1/ Much

corey robin

CoreyRobin

One of the issues the left always has, well, issues with is the hagiography of its own agency. When revolution or radical reform happens, the left sees itself as the

Esha K.

eshaLegal

Don't read Lenin's pieces that Anarchists pretend they have read. Read the little pieces. You learn more.Read "In Memory of Count Hayden" and compare it to the hagiography of John

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

SVR13

The Sigma Male idea is stupid, pseudoscientific and reveals the flexibility of the pick-up artist grift, telling clients that they're basically John Wick because they have commitment issues, but can

Casey Michel 🇰🇿

cjcmichel

I've covered US secession movements for the better part of a decade now, and one point: The momentum, desire, and infrastructure for secession is very, very clearly tilted toward the

SportsbyBrooks

SportsbyBrooks

Trailer for "The Jackie Robinson Story."The feature film was originally conceived by a screenwriter named Lawrence Taylor but Dodgers co-owner Branch Rickey and Rickey assistant Arthur Mann rewrote Taylor's script

Sam Byers

byers90

Not only one of the most unique and remarkable literary biographies I’ve ever read, but also one of the most hauntingly successful attempts to reflect and embody a paranoid, schizophrenic

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Ok, so two things. Humanities: Exist. But like clockwork the call for inventing new disciplines that will teach us about the past/critical thinking/truth/the meaning of life* comes and at the

Hallie Rubenhold

HallieRubenhold

The way we frame true crime stories reflects the values of our own society, as much as the period in which a murder took place. Dr Crippen brutally murdered his

James E. Walters

jedwardwalters

A short cataloging thread, if you want to follow along a short rabbit trail I went down to identify a text:I came across a title of a Syriac hagiography called

Avtar Dr Saundarya Rajesh

SaundaryaR

#AaniThirumanjanam - a day of celebration of Lord Nataraja, aka Neelakanta. As promised in my earlier thread, here is the answer to the question : What is the connection between

Akiva Cohen

AkivaMCohen

Let's talk about the #Founders for a second, shall we? Yeah, this is sparked by Ben Shapiro's outrage that 39% of Black people would classify them as villains.Me? I don't.

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

glasgow_sugar

Early indications that the weekend's Times article has disturbed the hagiography around James Watt. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/da2c9752-acee-11ea-adef-7962e28cd764?shareToken=b9e698f095b72c249a05a5731946c83c I don't think th

William Southey

wmsouthey

Understand that Trump was never going to voluntarily be a martyr to a cause. His base motivations are not of that kind. Now he will be an involuntary martyr because

Arunabha Sengupta

senantix

Thread: Born 12 Feb 1949 Gundappa Viswanath remains one of the most loved of Indian cricketers. #cricket #onthisday Be it the heady concoction of bewitchment & finesse in his stroke-play,

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

ThreadA lot of media outlets are more comfortable extending charity to terrorists than conservatives when they leave this life.The passing of Rush Limbaugh was the latest reminder. If you don’t

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