#Medieval

A thread on the most (in)famous antiquities dealer in 19th-century Palestine, Moses Wilhelm Shapira In the 1870s and early 1880s, Shapira had a shop on Christian St. (now generally called
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enable me pls the female night elf dance from WoW ctrl+F "slaanesh" on the tv tropes page for warhammer 40k that motley crue music video with all the 80s strippers
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Up early to greet the dawn, walk to the fair hamlet of Peckham, & there meet with the source of the river #Peck - the course of which we shall
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A one-image-a-day thread for #NationalPetMonth. Hans Asper's 1538 portrait of Cleophea Krieg von Bellikon (now in @KunsthausZurich), with her cat and dog having a bit of a 'krieg' (war) themselves
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Is the corpus of ancient Arabic poetry authentic? Since the manuscript evidence is rather late, centuries after the traditional dates of composition, can we be sure that the poems are
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Witch Science on the Moon, or why I made Elektron Oracle, an installation for the goodwitch/badwitch show at @Momartseattle, curated by Greg Lundgren & @thehoodwitch. #elektronOracle #meghantrainor #seattleart #witchScience About
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THREAD. Artificial watercourses across the Cambridgeshire #fenland are called โ€˜lodesโ€™ locally - from the Old English (ge)lฤd (derived from the verb โ€˜to leadโ€™) - because they lead water from one
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My book will be out in less than a month, and it has a beautiful cover - huge thanks to @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic. The book itself contains a โ€˜Note on the
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''๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ญ
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So I learned something fun about the word "pioneer" today.It was originally a military rank in the late medieval period for ... construction workers. Specifically, CWs who went ahead of
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Welcome to todayโ€™s virtual #LowTideTrail. Weโ€™ll be taking a look at wartime defences on the Holderness coast at Auburn Sands, #Bridlington.We hope you will enjoy #archaeology from home during the
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I did A-Levels in 2008,I want to talk about how the experience that this year's cohort are having is a longstanding, systemic issue, because some of you think this year's
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I've been reading through the long-awaited new book by Shady Nasser "The Second Canonization of the Qurสพฤn".There is a lot of marginal transmissions of readings that surprised me, but ล uสฟbah
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A thread on concerns in #cdnPSE that #COVID19 threatens to push us to an online-only Fall term. @AlexUsherHESA, for instance, worries that weโ€™ll face disaster without national collaboration for online
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โ€œWHAT MAKES A MONSTER?โ€ - a c!dream analysis about monstrosity, humanity, and the difference between them(3/?)wc: 4980PART ONE: https://twitter.com/dreamsdisk/status/1384999901755543552?s=21PART TWO:https://twitter.com/dreamsdisk/status
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What even is a dragon?!You didnโ€™t ask, but Iโ€™m making a thread about it anyway:This will be a thread about folklore, culture, the way we make categories and lump things
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