#Medievalists

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

When we in #MedievalTwitter talk about the University of Leicester's decision to cut medieval studies and preserve race/gender/sexuality courses, we need to be REALLY careful about it, because the UK

Chris😷Riedel

medievalhistory

I get the medievalists responding angrily to the recent viral tweet “what would you have already died of in the Middke Ages” because so many people regurgitate false tropes, but

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

I need to know more about the interest in medieval and classical history in the trump white house. /1 2) Today the WH issued a proclamation of commemoration of the

𝕊onja Drimmer

Sonja_Drimmer

I think those who have warned medievalists not to be opportunistic about current events in justifying our "relevance" are 100% right, so I want to avoid that. I also think

Dr Dayanna Knight

DayannaKnight

The @MedViewsArts campaign total is up to $747 USD this morning. We have 8 days left to make goal y'all.Just in case you're finding out now, or want to learn

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

A thread by Prof. Green that criticizes the historiography of Dr. MRO's recent article about how we talk about the links between COVID & the Black Death has been making

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

Today I found myself researching medieval & Renaissance beekeeping.If you need someone scary for a medieval story and you can't use the plague doctor because he's not medieval... why not

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".

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

I want to summarize a recent article by Dave Wilton that uses linguistic corpus analysis to see how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used generally across the world. Spoiler: it's primarily

Thomas Lecaque

tlecaque

There is a French tradition, when people are lucky enough to get a job, of familiarizing themselves with the local archives and regional history in the time period they work

Alex West ~ Medieval Indonesia

siwaratrikalpa

Fact check: nohttps://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/1349818810304352258 Yes, it's a joke. Buuuut it's based on a common misconception. Spices weren't particularly rare in 1350 (depending on where in the world one might have

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

KHandozo

There's a term, coined by Jo Walton, for the problem writers of historical fiction face when confronting their readers' expectations of history. It's the Tiffany Problem. Tiffany was a real

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

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Erik Wade (@erik_kaars) here. Today, I want to talk about other peoples' work. Often when we tell the story of scholarship on pre-modern race, we center the work of white

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

This dude is getting ratioed to hell & back for this nonsense, & there are MANY ways he's wrong about the history of sex. BUT let's highlight something else: this

RHULdeathconference

RHULdeathconf

We are in the process of shortlisting the many abstracts we received, so we would like to thank everyone for their patience and will hopefully be in touch soon! In

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