#Medieval

clark 🍄🌲

bogspectre

A meaningful understanding of history starts with understanding not what happened but what drove it to happen, and that begins with the way people in history lived, the simplest parts

Samantha Shannon

say_shannon

I’m been thinking about how different and interesting SFF would feel if we stopped asking authors (with clear surprise) ‘Why did you NOT make your fantasy world sexist?’And instead asked,

Dr. Yoav Tirosh

Yoav_inn_riki

As a survivor of a culture of toxic masculinity (), the implication that medieval Icelanders did not suffer from gender-based oppression makes me feel very uncomfortable. As a young man

The Govan Stones ⚔🛡👑

GovanStones

A CLOSER LOOK AT MYSTEROUS IMAGERY ON THE GOVAN STONES As you can see from this side by side comparison of the Jordanhill and Dupplin crosses, the early medieval carved

Rory Waterman

RoryWaterman

I’m deeply saddened, and angered, by the decision made by @uniofleicester - where I spent six years & gained two degrees - to scrap the teaching of medieval literature. I’ll

Elaine Treharne

ETreharne

So. @uniofleicester's managers will cut medieval literature and English lang because they want "to offer a suite of undergrad degrees that provide modules which students expect of an English degree".

Thomas Feichtmeir

cyangmou

My fantasy design sketchbook:Dragon SalletAlso let's play a retweet game because I know you love helmets and want to know more about them. I will post curiosities about helmets in

🌹Aaron The Pedantic💘

cha_neg

Doing some numbers for a DCC campaign.Medieval London had a pop of around 15000 in 1100.If 95/100 people have no class/level, then 157 will in that city. Fighters/Warriors are going

Albert Bikaj

AlbertBikaj

You have probably heard that the Medieval people believed the Earth was flat. But is true? I will show you a few photos from manuscripts and a and a quote

Χοδαδάδιος Ρεζαχανίδης 🇮🇸🇪🇺

sasanianshah

It’s a great idea actually, so let me do a mini-version of what @aaolomi does & mention a few Twitter accounts which make it impossible for me to leave this

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Not letting this go. This is riddled with factual errors, peddles dangerous stereotypes about the medieval Church and, most importantly, exonerates an elusive beast called „Western modernity“ as based on

Jackie Lombard

jackiemlombard

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

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Thread: Did you know cats feature in early medieval law? The 10th-cent Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda listed the qualities of a good cat: “that it not devour its kittens,

Sarah Luginbill

salu1292

For all my new followers, here's a short thread on my research! Let's start with this brief clip from the UK Parliament in 2018, wherein an MP removes the ceremonial

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

Imagine if babies had translucent skin Take a moment to consider dead babies.Up until very recently, in everywhere outside the US, infant and child mortality was extremely high.Almost as high

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

ICYMI this is my last blog for the year, so I am being true to myself and yelling about sex and racist attempts to whitewash history into an imagined pure

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