#Medieval

Rory Turnbull

_roryturnbull

German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English

Peter Lorimer

pighilltweets

This is sparked by a conversation yesterday, but do you ever stop to reflect on the weird energy 1970s British ceramics and pottery had? I mean some REALLY weird stuff

Scott Oliver

reverse_sweeper

Meet in Air BnB loft in Kreuzberg for lines and cocktails. Uber to Berghain for 10-hour techno set from Marco Carola. Ralf scores awesome pills for everyone. “Pay me later!”

Sam Hoadley-Brill

deonteleologist

Alrighty folxxx, you asked for it. Here’s my thread on @Hpluckrose’s instant classic, “How French ‘Intellectuals’ Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact.” Originally published at Areo, lucky enough to

Javier Cha

javiercha

What is K-spicy? Or, when pseudohistory meets food and digital history.Meet cheongyang peppers (pictured), which are ubiquitous in South Korean supermarkets these days along with put ("fresh") and oi ("cucumber")

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

#Halloween2020 Thread: Cockerel standing on top of the sun gate, on the border between the darkness and light, between the land of the dead (where sun spends night) and

Liz Dobson

todbooklady

Still in Tardebigge after visiting the Windsors' extravaganza of a new country seat on Saturday. Robert Windsor-Clive added an apsidal chancel in 1879 to the Georgian estate church & its

SURYA

suryaaa001

Indian Leftist Bureaucracy- The Biggest Obstacle in National Self Actualization------------------------------------------------------------(Read,understand what we are up against)One of the biggest colonial legacies ,which was meant to pres

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

It is claustrophobic: the sound of your own breathing mixes with the fear of asphyxiation.It is impersonal: only the eyes peering through the sockets betray any humanity.It is totemic: the

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

A damning indictment of droplet theory from as long as ago.1936, Wells & Wells, a husband and wife team.Thread. History. Before 1861 we didn't know there were organisms in the

Hindu Imperium

KaivalyaVishwa1

Western claims about Greek astronomy and maths in general and about Ptolemy in particular are deeply problematic.We have no sure means to actually know what exactly this ptolemy discovered.why?Thread.https://twitter.com/Hiranyareta/status/1

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Mar_Musa

And now a super-thread on the winding & complicated (pun intended) history of the tuǧra, a textual feature often defined as a 'calligraphic emblem' for 'Turkic' rulers, though that definition

Dr Maddy Pelling

MaddyPelling

Thinking a lot lately about a new project on 18th-century #graffiti, the lives and voices - often hidden in plain sight - that it can reveal from the past, and

Fledgist 🥀🇯🇲🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fledgist

The word “nationalism” has been in vogue for the past few years. What does it mean? Simply put, it is the idea that people sharing a language, & culture, in

matthew champion

mjc_associates

Given today's news about the discoveries made at the National Trust's Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, a brief thread about why we were there, and what was found. It isn't every

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

A thread on Jewish magical recipe books, or grimoires, from late antiquity. Ancient and Medieval Jews possessed a variety of handbooks to harness the supernatural. 1 These include astrological handbooks

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