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A thread of threads on @stephenniem's posts on Islamic art, archaeology, and cultural heritage this week, in which we traveled from Damascus to Delhi and from Palmyra to Palermo and

Tweeting Historians

It's been a fun week for me (@MichaelDPress) as #Tweetistorian, thanks again to @DrWorsTen and @sasanianshah & to everyone else for following.A thread of threads for the week:~mp 1. An

Tweeting Historians

Welcome to #FridayFeeling #WomenOfMilitaryHistory with @KaraDixonVuic talking about how the "homefront" operates in support of morale for troops in war. Today's scholar, @KaraDixonVuic, is the LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor

Tweeting Historians

Hello everyone! Shall we talk a bit about slavery in the medieval Islamic world?The contours of Islamic history are deeply shaped by slavery and manumission (the freeing of slaves).https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1193767988006182912 Slavery

Tweeting Historians

Hello again! @iandavidmorris here.Following yesterday’s thread, let’s talk about slave soldiery in Islam.Enslaved people have been made to fight across many ancient and medieval societies, but they were nowhere so

Tweeting Historians

Hi! It’s @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week.Today, we’re moving on from Ethiopian diplomacy with late medieval Latin Europe to see how this connects to local Ethiopian history & particularly

Tweeting Historians

Hey! It’s @LevineRx, back for @Tweetistorian takeover day 2: Live from Naxos, #Greece & week of Cycladic #Archaeology!Naxos is big, so let’s start small! Today’s thread takes us back in

Tweeting Historians

Today I'm answering your questions. It's also the third day of protests in Austin, TX in response to the killing of George Floyd by police, and it feels wrong not

Tweeting Historians

Breaking the Byzantine SystemThe arc-of-history narrative cites two disasters in particular that both reflected and precipitated Byzantine decline: the Battle of Manzikert and the 4th Crusade.The systems approach unambiguously fingers

Tweeting Historians

The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’

Tweeting Historians

Hello again. @iandavidmorris here. Let’s wrap up our discussion on slave soldiers.https://twitter.com/Tweetistorian/status/1194388946861600769 As we have seen, in the first 200 years of Islam, enslaved people ran the households of wealthy

Tweeting Historians

Five years and three months ago today, ISIS entered the museum in Mosul and began to destroy ancient statues with pickaxes and sledgehammers. They claimed they were destroying "false idols"

Tweeting Historians

Hey everyone! My name’s Evan aka @LevineRx & I’m talking over #twitteristorian to tell you about the #archaeology of #Greece’s Cycladic islands! I just docked on #Naxos for 2 weeks

Emran El-Badawi

Back from a long break, but still heartbroken about the #BeirutExplosion.What is the history of Beirut in classical and late antiquity? What impact did it have on Roman, Christendom and

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

This is my last day here, and I don't know how you are feeling, but it just doesn't feel right to me to go on as if people are not

Byzantine Emporia

byzantinemporia

Surge Capacity and SurvivalByzantium was able to survive so many crises because its surge capacity: when the borders exploded, it had plenty of buffer to work with.Similar to any network