#Medieval

Order of the Coif

JusticeTyrwhit

(Thread) For those following the saga of Joan Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny (the "Second Jezebel", or "Joan the Beheader"... okay I made that last one up), I found her London house!

Movies Silently

MoviesSilently

Okay, assuming I actually manage to pull off my IVANHOE adaptation marathon, I think I should have some ground rules for what I consider a successful version.1. Costumes. Accuracy is

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: I thought I’d share some of Ireland’s famous castles, virtually, as we can’t see them during lockdown. There are quite a few in the Emerald Isle so I’ve chosen

Grip, the Raven (and the FLP Rare Book Dept)

GripTheRaven

Thanks to @CLIRHC we are in Year 3 of @MmwProject uncovering hidden manuscripts in our collections. But we're especially excited by Islamic Manuscript Basics: https://kislakcenter.github.io/islamicmss/ a great introduction to thei

Michael Govern Ready

mikegove12

Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-PepysMay 25thUp, and after visiting Barnard Castle to headbutt the virus, back down the A1 to White Hall with my petition to introduce

BLACK CONSERVATIVE

blackrepublican

A History of The Afro-Arabs -- The HaratinThey are one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in all of human history, a black-Arab caste that emerged from a legacy of

Elaine van Dalen

elainevdalen

What mandrakes look like in the movie & what they look like in Arabic & Persian copies of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica(Bl Ms Or 3366, Baghdad 14th century) (NY, NPL,

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

What this reveals is that most rentagob 'progressives' can only see history through a heady fug of anachronism. All historical experience has to be squashed into their impoverished secular-modernist perspective

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Good morning! It's @tlecaque, starting my takeover for the week with some #medieval southern France leading up to the First #Crusade. I want to take today to lay out some

Magda Knightvale

MagdaKnight

As promised, I should like to take you on a tour of my 1578 map of Iceland and the enchanting beastly hybrids and sea monsters depicted therein. Get ready for

Africa Updates

africaupdates

Today is #InternationalNubiaDay. Nubia has one of the oldest, and richest histories that should be celebrated. Nubia was home to several empires, most prominently the "Kingdom of Kush" that ruled

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

The idiot king, a figure of much bemusement in medieval Europe, is the most powerful smoke screen imaginable. A hapless buffoon, dull and suggestible, who is ostensibly bestowed with power

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Hi! This is @KrebsVerena again, your #Twittistorian for the week. Today we’ll look at how #medieval Ethiopian outreach to Europe got started & trace the very first Solomonic embassy of

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The old Yasir Qadhi on democracy | 1"It is not my right or your right to legislate; no supreme court, no system of government, no democracy where they VOTE. Can

Paul M. Cobb

cobbpasha

1. TIL a strange tale of #medievalism and #racism in American toponymy. Not my period but I’ll try to be accurate.Once upon a time, I drove from northern Indiana to

Gareth Harney

OptimoPrincipi

The Macellum Magnum or "Great Market" of Nero, constructed on the Caelian Hill in 59 AD. Shown here in remarkable detail on dupondii coins of Nero, the two-storey colonnaded market