#Medieval

Following on from this thread on oral history...https://twitter.com/richard_duckett/status/1279827981549146116 ...@JohnMBeales recommended Penny Summerfield's work, and I found this open access article: https://journals.openedition.org/
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Brief history of #Amharic Thread(I kinda did this during my sophomore year for a Linguistics paper so...... “just trust me bro”)#Ethiopia During the #Axumite Kingdom, the official language was Ge’ez,
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The entire story of how David offered up the children and grandchildren of Saul, to end a famine. It has all the steps. David "inquired", which means some form of
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The Allegories of the Wizard of OzThe first color movie made public, featuring a yellow brick road paved in gold, as the US legal currency was then based on gold.
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Why I wince when I read 'The Norman Conquest: the complete story' on the front cover of @HistoryExtra and why 'Who was the rightful king? is the wrong question to
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Thread#Portland #PortlandProtest #PortlandProtests #ICE #BORTAC We now know that BORTAC (Border Patrol Tactical Unit) - DHS' version of a SWAT team has been operating in Portand and kidnapping / disappearing
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0/ The role that books play in sending people down the bitcoin rabbit hole cannot be understated. They also make decent gifts. Here are some of my best IMHO- A
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Nehemiah ben Hushiel was a central figure in the Jewish revolt against Heraclius, (614-617 to 625 CE).He is best known as a savior figure who appears in many medieval Jewish
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Here’s the glorious multivallate Iron Age hillfort (and Roman fort) atop #HodHill #Dorset @nationaltrust looking east in this aerial photo from 2016 © Jo and Sue CraneA thread to celebrate
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Interesting this 'British history' podcast muted a thread by a qualified PhD whose area of expertise is exactly what this wyte dude argues against. He's not qualified, but thinks he's
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To India! We go together with one of the most original minds of the late antique and early medieval world: Cosmas Indicopleustes. Cosmas thought that the world was a box.
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The most “blackpilling” thing about internet weirdo commentary from fringe philosophers & mystics etc— is that so much of it is aesthetic escapism & subjective irrationalism in response to alienation
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Did you know that human beings have been making music for approx 55,000 years? A short history of music, in a twitter thread... Starting with our voices, and then most
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A conspiracy thread: the North Pole This may seem redundant considering I just made a thread on Antarctica, but considering all the other topics we’ve covered so far, this should
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I’m becoming very interested in Aristotelian ethics as a framework for looking critically at our world — and how that relates to the genesis, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD and
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For the month of December we’ll take a look at a C15th Book of Hours, so follow along and keep an eye out for images from this beautifully illustrated manuscript!
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