#Medieval

#1 rachmaninoff simp

shostaninoff

composers as styles of architecture: a thread this is so stupid tchaikovsky: beaux-arts architecture stravinsky: mid-century modern gershwin: art deco shostakovich: brutalism rachmaninoff: victorian architecture copland: dutch colonial revi

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azrael2393

How's everyone enjoyment of 5 years of bottled schadenfreude? I hope you all have been celebrating the moment, because the time to start fighting was *check notes* a couple years

Patrick Wyman

Patrick_Wyman

A thread of landscapes and places that I love:1) The Columbia River Gorge. I've driven through here hundreds of times going between Yakima and Portland and don't appreciate it enough

KP11Studios

KP11Studios

Just wanted to clarify something about my game:My TTRPG isn't going to be a word for word representation of Hinduism, but stories & concepts derived from it into game form,

Taosci

taosci

IMO Morsi failed it was b/c a bunch of medieval antiquarians cdn't solve the problems of a modern economy, so Egypt plunged into an existential economic crisis as the wheat

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

A language that very nearly came into existence in medieval England was what I call 'Normanglish', a kind of Norman French with English orthography and English pronunciation. We could also

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Islamic astrology shares a lot of commonalities and influence with European medieval astrology. For example how they interpret the different signs of the zodiac, or dairat al burujA thread on

James Hill

historicus_rex

1/ #MAMG20 Welcome! Exercising power is a core function of strategy games, but what does that process teach us about the past? Are the games we play giving us a

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/The N-Poem (نونيات) is a genre of medieval Arabic literature in the form of a lyrical stanza. A favourite of mine is that of al-Qaḥṭānī al-Andalusī (d. 10th C). The

Becky ~

hwanhees_girl

UP10TION AS CASTLES AN: for fun, distractions from everything happening, and I needed some fortification in my life, I've had this thread in my head for a while now.

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johnamonaco

I unironically believe that the only people who should be allowed to write, read, & talk about Christian mystics are orthodox Christians themselves. Too many gender studies/critical theory folk get

Baron of Chita 🇷🇸

CitadelMark

Never have I been so conscious of why duels existed and why they were healthy.Duels served two functions:A) deterred inherently rude people from going too farB) forced everyone to grow

Wear the damn mask😷

medievalhistory

So I'm starting here with a week-long trip I took with my mother through the south of France in 2009 - we covered just under a thousand kilometers in about

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

Can Muslims smoke while keeping the fast in #Ramadan ? A thread on the legal debates around smoking, including shisha, during the #RamadanKareem2019 In Shi’i legal discussions, debates around smoking

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ofnwchyrhenwaed

1/12Okay here we go.In medieval Wales land was owned and managed under the gwely system, by which land was held by the family as a four generational family concern. Land

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Everyone loves gal pals! Just women being friends! Here's a thread of medieval illustrations of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth that suggest that they were gay for each other. (Morgan