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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Little-known fact: Alexander the Great loved to explore the deep sea with his cat. The cat was less enthused.(This is an actual story about Alexander exploring the ocean in a
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Axel Folio, PhD, Mad Marxist beyond Thunderdome
ISASaxonists
#medievaltwitter, it's been like 2 days since racist Brits were claiming they're "Anglo-Saxon". British [Welsh this time] person laying claim to "Celtic Anglo-Saxon Homeland" & spouting racist, Islamophobic g
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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
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Alexandra Vukovich
AlexandraVukov1
From a convo today: the 10thc monastic church of Akhtala in northern #Armenia w a series of #byzantine frescoes similar to those of #medieval #Georgia executed under the patronage of
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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Medieval Christians: "There are so many allegories for Christ! Like, Christ is a lamb, he's a unicorn, he's a peacock!"Me, nodding: "Uh huh, that all makes sense."Medieval Christians: "And, ofc,
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Alexandra Vukovich
AlexandraVukov1
The #HagiaSophiaMosque debate has sparked questions about other monuments. For example here is a famous Athenian mosque built after 1721 (the previous one was ruined in the 1687 explosion), in
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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Honestly, nothing is funnier to me that medieval images of Christ's ascension to heaven, because they're all just his feet hanging down from the sky. Yes, this is a thread.(BnF,
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Axel Folio, PhD, Mad Marxist beyond Thunderdome
ISASaxonists
Here's a short thread to exemplify how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used to mean 'wyte', associated w/ wyte supremacy & misused not only by Americans but equally by British ppl,
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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
The thing I love about medieval dragons in European manuscripts is that so many of the drawings are smol and cute. This is a silly #MedievalTwitter thread of smol, adorable
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Florence of Deira
FlorenceHRS
#OTD in 1066 King Edward the Confessor died childless, creating a succession dispute that led to the Norman Conquest. This scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows Queen Edith weeping at
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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
"We had to kill the Vikings, bc they bathed and brushed their hair and our wives couldn't resist such sophistication" is a HELL of a take by medieval English chroniclers.
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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
THREAD: as a medievalist, lemme say that, if medieval tv shows and movies really want to be HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, they should have more men wear pink. Historical realism, people!(St. Gallen,
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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
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Matt Gabriele
prof_gabriele
this brings up an interesting point about transparency/ opacity in sources. brief thread 1/ #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1292091005924253698 first, of course a couple sentences in an obituary don't do justice
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Royal Irish Academy Library
Library_RIA
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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Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Thread: medieval depictions of Christ expelling the bankers from the temple, in order of his increasing fury at capitalism. Here, he seems like he's having a polite disagreement. Everyone is
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