#Medieval

Luna 🌟

coucyi

'medieval people barely washed themselves''40 was considered old age during the middle ages''medieval marriages were always arranged''witch hunts were rampant during the middle ages''medieval people thoug

Dr Emma Brownlee

ECBrownlee

My paper on grave good decline in early medieval Europe is published today in @AntiquityJhttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.153Summary below I wanted to compare the transition from furnished to unfurnished burial across western

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

We have a medieval stained glass conundrum.We think this fragment at St Mary's, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire depicts a dog (but we're not sure) playing a pipe (or maybe not).#thread Could it

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

CliveWismayer

She’s purported to graciously accept the apology. Of course, it’s possible her solicitors wanted £5 grand up front or that they told her her case was doubtful, or that she

Dr Caitlin Green

caitlinrgreen

Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/another-medieval-chinese-coin-from-england.html The map included in the above tweet & post is of the dist

Liz Dobson

todbooklady

Off to Stone, #Worcs. for #ArtsandCrafts #Cotswolds #churches, where the Commissioners Gothic church of 1831-2 replaced a medieval church destroyed by fire. Kemp replaced the E window in 1900 and

noosh⁷ 🦥

taetaeggukkie

things that make me happy; a thread medieval paintings of cats end of thread

Yvonne Seale

yvonneseale

I just watched Hannah Gadsby's new stand-up special, "Douglas", and was unexpectedly delighted by the appearance of a whole bit about Bernard of Clairvaux and lactation in medieval artwork! Which

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

Having a think about sex and class, as one does, and what constitutes acceptable sexual performance. If you are posh (and your mum deported a bunch of citizens to their

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328) is without a doubt a dynamic intellectual figure that left an indelible mark on the Muslim intellectual world. But was his influence in medieval times exaggerated? A

Catherine Firth

moreleavespls

In the spirit of learning from our mistakes, I want to share my experiences of pretending to be a medieval scribe and #makingmedievalink with @sarajcharles and #BeingHuman2020 (spoiler alert, it

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

The Albi mappa mundi: the oldest surviving medieval map of the world. Preserved in a ms produced in the 8th c. in Southern France or Spain it is an extraordinary

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Astrologers from the medieval Islamic world envisioned history as a series of great planetary cycles. You've heard of the Great Conjunction on December 20th and the Age of Aquarius, but

Vulpine Outlaw

Rad_Sherwoodism

One of the foundational books of Western Christendom is about how God didn't need Rome to work his will in the world. The story of medieval Europe is how the

EHS

EcclesHistSoc

I'm also interested in the long afterlives of saints' cults, especially in England after the Reformation. Saints' cults survived in a number of different ways... Firstly, they were perpetuated by

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

Using only hand tools and exactly copying the work of medieval carpenters, it took 25 carpenters just ONE week to make a truss. Notre-Dame needs 36 of these. 36 weeks

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