#Medieval

Dr Eleanor Janega

It is Sunday so you know your girl is wound up about this terrible take which a) is historically inaccurate, but b) does inadvertently show one of the main reasons

Effy, Letting Out A Heaving Sigh Of Relief At Last

Westeros is not realistic, grittily or otherwise. To begin with, medieval Europeans understood that marriages were only valid if they were consensual, and so they went to substantial lengths to

More in projecting modern cultural fashions onto the past and calling it scholarship: It’s really telling that they’ve shopped a drag face onto the mediaeval art - an almost Freudian

Dr Eleanor Janega

This stupid take is really interesting for a few reasons, but I love how medieval it is! The idea that a lack of sex influences women's behavior come sout in

Dr Eleanor Janega

1) Wow. 2) Virginity is not real. 3) Obsessing about your adult. daughter's sex life is red flag bunting4) An *actual* medieval conception of sex in the wild!https://twitter.com/isaactweeting/status/1265859613162967042 The idea

DrRebeccaPinner

Images of #Easter from #medieval East Anglia: for Holy Saturday, the Harrowing of Hell. A non-Biblical story which was popular in the #middleages, it describes Christ descending to hell

This is a meta-thread of my medieval threads, so they're all in one place, and I don't forget/lose track of them. Wander down memory lane with me! First stop: medieval

I remember being surprised when I learned medieval knights sealed oaths by kissing on the lips, were obsessed with flowers and perfume and would openly weep at the slightest provocation.The

These paintings are truer than photorealism. They signify the essence of each animal, make it comprehensible to someone who has never seen one. It is a different mode of communication,

Kathleen E. Kennedy

so I have done rather a lot of work on glass bottles just like this one (including this one!) -- anyone have a collection that needs a piece on late

en Autonom hög av Små-stenar

aPebbleInTheSky

Idk wanna promote the poster but this... this image is lowkey amazing in terms of misunderstandings about middle ages. First off, yeah the average medieval person didn't eat that much

Medieval marginalia of knights fighting snails have had a weird heyday on the internet, but did you know that the motif was mostly a brief 20-year fad from 1290 to

Dr Eleanor Janega

So almost everything in this tweet is wrong.https://twitter.com/CVEconomist/status/1245726020843352065?s=19 Wages stagnate for a century and a half after an initial increase, but sure go off.Also, I do not know how to

KB, do you love me? are you riding?

I'm feeling a lot more kindly towards medieval folks who thought you could catch the Black Death by staring at someone who had it. There's an un-peer-reviewed study going around

The killing of the 6 Dalit men is a sign of how violence became normalized in far-western Nepal. A girl eloping with another caste would have faced opprobrium and censorship

Stephen Williams 🔶

Beginning my series of cards this week to mark 80 years since the start of the Nazi blitz on Bristol. All of the foreground in this bustling scene would be