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Tweeting Historians

Happy Tuesday y'all, it's @tlecaque still, and let's talk regionalism, chaos, and the breakdown of central authority in Francia in the 10th century. That's right, it's feudal revolution time! #medievaltwitter,

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Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in

Matthew T. Scarince

100 Followers Thread: First of all, thank you to everyone!Gene Wolfle (1931-2019) was a brilliant Catholic Speculative Fiction author and Engineer, most famous for his massive three-part epic 'The Solar

So, I asked my third-year Special Subject students (Lothar II's divorce) to map places mentioned in the Annals of St-Bertin and the Annals of Fulda, to create comparative geographies of

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Thread on the Art of Joan Francesc OliverasJoan Oliveras is a Spanish digital artist who creates gorgeous detailed designs of cultures & characters from antiquity. He paints cultures from all

This thread is a story about 'The Beasts of Oseberg'- five exquisitely carved and mysterious #Viking Age objects @kulturhistoriskPhoto: Kirsten Helgeland Many will have seen pictures of these animal heads

Happy #ScavengerHuntDay! This year we’re challenging you to “hunt” around your house and reply with the OLDEST thing you own. We’ll start… At the Museum, this “Madonna and Child” is

Let's visit #Bulgaria today, with this perfectly plain 4th/5thC #silver #buckle from #Sofia. A classic design example of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it': you could rivet it to

A #SpecialOffa from @britishmuseum's @findsorguk Wat #EarlyMedieval material culture tells us about life in the Welsh MarchesI shall use the following tweets to highlight some of the most recent finds

When people ask "when did people stop speaking Latin as a native language?" I like to answer: “Well, it was still spoken into the 9th century, though at that point

Might make a thread of memes I've made and posted on here. these were made by @RationaleDecay, top bloke. 1. Saint Adrian Feels 2. HRE Fanboy, @FranzHerman1 3. Lazer Comstock

Tweeting Historians

Good morning! It's @tlecaque, starting my takeover for the week with some #medieval southern France leading up to the First #Crusade. I want to take today to lay out some

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How is Mario, a clearly Italian man ruled my Princess Peach? The Mushroom Kingdom is in the Holy Roman Empire an explainer. (1/13) The ancient Roman empire had plumbing as

Okay, so @hollandspiele is having their annual sale. Five bucks off some very good games, some of which you may not have heard of. Want recommendations? I've got them! https://hollandspiele.com/

THREAD: The Suppressed History of the Struggle Between the Serpent and Eagle Bloodlines. Many have heard of the lost continent of Atlantis but very few know of the, now suppressed

Amit Schandillia

[QUICK THREAD: PUNCTUATION]1/24At first, there was nothing. Not even space. That's because ancient scripts like Chinese and Sumerian were all logographic, i.e. a single glyph or "letter" represented an entire