#Medieval

Medieval Manuscripts

BLMedieval

A thread for #NationalPoetryMonth, showcasing items from the @britishlibrary collections.Starting with Beowulf! The longest epic poem in Old English survives in a single manuscript, made sometime around AD 1000. We

geoff: the account

geoff_stemen

random thoughts about entertainment and literature:comedy & tragedy are closer than we think why do people love The Office? it’s funny, duh. but its jokes (like Dilbert’s) are funny because

Hakim Sameer Hamdani

HamdaniSameer

#MirSayyidAliHamdani: Probabaly the foremost transnational Sufi figure who visited Kashmir in the medieval times, Sayyid Ali (1314-84) was a prominent Shaykh of the Kubrawi order. While historically, it is certain

Evan Nicoll-Johnson

evnjohnson

Since temperatures are dropping, thought I'd share this wintry anecdote: 晉太康二年冬大寒，In the Jin dynasty, during the winter of the second year of the Taikang reign, there was a deep freeze.

Razan Idris

idris_razan

Thread: Out of my own interest in historically visualizing the African "medieval", tonight I'm sharing a collection of architecture built across Africa in the 1500s-1600s! (Inspired by Isaac Samuel's much

Tattvam Asi (तत्त्वम् असि!)

Brahamvakya

No sir, it is incorrect.There is a line of kings mentioned that amounts to 1400 years that is missing. Let me start dismantling the lies../1https://twitter.com/Bharathgyan/status/1294226548099174400 The Western scholars hv not

Partners: The 2-player Crime RPG is on kickstarter

tinstargames

Okay for @GregPogorzelski and others, the story of Why Clerics Are in D&D.The first thing you need to realise is that before D&D there were no clerics or priests in

Pete Wharmby

commaficionado

What they really mean - a thread.1. Virtue signalling.Used as an insult to suggest you're simply trying to jump on the 'being nice' bandwagon (which is apparently a bad thing)

Daniel Holland

DannyDutch

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them. Starting with - The Oyster A Crocodile, Unknown Artist, c.

Khaled Abdul Jawad

AbdulJawadMD

Sharing with Twitter photos I've taken in different spots around the . The photos were all captured using phone with no filters or edits. Feel free to comment

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Erik Wade ( @erik_kaars ) again, back with a short thread on the love of my life: penitentials. Penitentials are medieval manuals for confessors. They basically list sins with suggested

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/Following up on an interesting point raised by Jonathan AC Brown about Avicenna & wine-drinking, I'd like to offer a few cursory remarks. One: Avicenna drank wine. His penchant for

Cal Chelcicky

Cal_Crucis

The "public sphere" of society developed from the milieu of christendom, which originally suffered a fragmentation from the growth of papacy. Rather than a local (but powerful & ancient patriarchate)

#Endsars Dear Heart❤

TashRoyale

Here's what you don’t know about Mansa Musa,the richest person in historyA Thread!Retweet and Like• Billionaires Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett are currently the three richest men in

Vel Mini (also known as Gnome)

Veliministriari

this is your regular reminder that D&D is a bad game and you should not play it. There's plenty of other very good tabletop games out there and most of

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

Our old towns and cities have been bombed, vilified, slandered and made defenseless, but in terms of outright destruction, you can't have it worse than agricultural buildings. Let's have a