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héder
heder___
In a recent event organized by progressive activists here I went from one activist to another and presented my proposal for the grand country wide campaign for housing food clothing
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Ugra
_ugra_
Today's gem. We "South Indians" don't prescribe to Vedas & also jyotish shastra apparently.It seems we follow Naadi instead. Ok fair enough. I am a firm believer of Naadi myself.
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Medieval Indonesia
siwaratrikalpa
Apparently it's #NationalTeaDay in the UK. Today I'm drinking one of the best black teas - Qímén ('Keemun', 祁門紅茶) from Anhui province in China.Anyway, question: Did people in island Southeast
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Violet Wilson
ViWiWrites
For your consideration:Obi-wan is cottagecore Anakin is dark academia Padme is medieval aesthetic Mace windu: soft egirl That’s all I know for certain at this time. Feel free to tell
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Steffen Hope
HopeSteffen
This week's theme for #AnimalsInChurchesHour is #PeopleAtWorkInChurches, so I'll be putting up medieval workers from two different churches. First, this guy pruning the vines from the Church of Saint Lawrence
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Lauren Knott
laurenknott3
im finally watching the witcher and will livetweeting to entertain no one but myself i would not only die for renfri i would also kill a gross sorcerer dude for
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Im Not a Witch Im Ya Wife
moderneyre
Okay so apparently some of y’all don’t know the genius behind the Arts & Crafts/Pre-Raphalite movement and one of the most under appreciated pre-raphalite artists - hold my beer https://twitter.com/moderneyre/status/1264987145732870
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Incunabula
incunabula
The end-stage of a miniaturization trend that had been accelerating from the 12th cent, this manuscript could only have been made after the introduction of the lens. One of the
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Dr Eleanor Janega
GoingMedieval
Imagine being this wrong and loud in my mentions, and then self-describing as a Renaissance man. I mean to be fair, much like men in the Renaissance he *is* trying
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𝕊onja Drimmer
Sonja_Drimmer
Today I'm writing a bit about medieval coinage. This is later than the period I work on, but I love it: a table of coins from 1581 intended as a
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Hayden Joseph Noble
11Parsecs
Reminder that a literal female apostle had her gender (likely) willfully hidden since the medieval times. Early Christianity was apparently too progressive for the Middle Ages. Also presenting Phoebe, carrier
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Greg Hillis
gregorykhillis
Are American Catholics aware that frequent communion was a rarity throughout much of the medieval period and was only reintroduced through the liturgical reforms of Pope St Pius X in
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The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)
MaslamaQ
Some sources to supplement the episode on Islamic(ate) astrology on @AbbasidHistory podcast.1) Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm (The Great Introduction to Astrology), edited and translated by
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Lisa Fagin Davis
lisafdavis
I don’t know if this is a serious question or not, but I’m going to give it a serious answer. Here’s a thread on “So, you think you’ve solved the
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Keith Ruiter
keith_ruiter
There's a formulaic phrase in early Scandinavian legal texts - one rendering of it is 'með lögum skal land byggja en með ólögum eyða' or 'with laws will the land
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Nick McBurney
mcburney_nick
Absolutely gorgeous 15th-century binding - not terribly large at ~21 x 13 cm, but, rebacking aside, in splendid condition. Unfair question (doublure not pictured, because it's a dead giveaway): what
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