#Medieval

Manu Fernández

manufernandez

Una selección de enlaces sobre coronavirus, urbanismo y movilidad (1/10) Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problemhttps://www.citylab.com/design/2020/03/coronavirus-urban-planning-global-cities-infectious-disease/607603/ (2/10) Viral Cities. Urban

Jill Whitelock

JillWhitelock

T is for poor old Toad in today’s #LockdownBestiary (aka ‘Paddock’, ‘Crapaud’). Warty, crawling, despised beast, spitting and pissing venom. Classified by Linnaeus with amphibians, ‘foul and loathsome’ animals. The

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

You’ve heard of the Norman Conquest in 1066; but have you heard about the Lithuanian invasion of England in 1069? Buckle up… (thread) If you read the standard Oxford edition

Faisal

faisaldos

@jk_rowling Jumana my niece (age 11) imagined King Fred the Fearless and wanted me to share her creation with you #TheIckabog @jk_rowling an Ickabog from Saudi Arabia coming your

Paul Furber

paul_furber

#BigDickAnon Update: Realigning US Foreign Policy Edition. A comment from our man here:https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/251516502/#251531187The archive has it: https://paulfurber.net/bda/index.html #BigDickAnon Anon asks whether they will g

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ewelery

How these Ghanaian pallbearers have morphed from comical pallbearers to harbinger of death to the grim ripper himself is fascinating to watch on Twitter Exhibit 1https://twitter.com/Amegaxi/status/1248374664226697216?s=19 Exhibit: Rudehttps://twitter

Justin Thomas

DrJustinThomas

Mood, Madness, WellnessMy Friday Thread (No. 4)The Psych Wards of the "Medieval" Islamic World.Read on Madness is ancient. Around 10% of all the stone-age skulls unearthed have holes, intentionally, bored

Simcha Gross

Simcha_Gross

A thread on Jewish incantations, rituals, and anxieties, related to memory in late antiquity and the early medieval period. 1/24 There were two main incantations for improved memory and learning

J🍂(Autumn Theme)

J_H_5

William of Norwich (2 February 1132 – 22 March 1144) was an English boy whose death was, at the time, attributed to the Jewish community of Norwich. It is the

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Medieval Butts and Where to Find Them: A ThreadThis thread is remarkably not safe for work. You've been warned!(BL, MS Stowe 17, f. 54r)#MedievalTwitter Some butts are in bloom.(BnF, MS

Erra-Epiri

ErraEpiri

Louder for the ppl in the back: Issuing corrections isn't about underminding/disliking ppl. Not from me, at any rate. I simply have no interest in seeing our fellow polytheists shoot

Jamie Hall

PrimitiveMethod

A thread about hinges.Or, Sutton Hoo, Problem-Solving, and Syncretic Workshop Practice.If you can suggest good examples of hinges from the Early Medieval, Late Iron Age, or Late Roman periods, please

Peter Reavill

PeterReavill

A #SpecialOffa from @britishmuseum's @findsorguk Wat #EarlyMedieval material culture tells us about life in the Welsh MarchesI shall use the following tweets to highlight some of the most recent finds

Farmers Of The UK

FarmersOfTheUK

In 1894 Lord Armstrong, aged 84, bought the castle. It was run down and needed a lot of work, which Armstrong set about with gusto. Saving all the medieval stone

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

What's the one organisation that has had Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, *and* Karl Marx, all as members?Well, let me tell you about the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

For Medieval Muslim astrologers, Leo was one of the most important zodiac signs. Deemed the kingly star, Leo was used throughout Islamic history to time battles, construction, and as an