#Medieval

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

Interesting piece. However, from my background in studying Christian writing in England 1300-1700, I would say the answer is 'Yes and no, but mostly no." The Catholic Church certainly wanted

Pierre Chambert-Protat

chaprot

Bon allez, après beaucoup d'hésitations parce que #autopromo , je vais quand même vous parler un peu de ça parce que ça me rend heureux et fier C'est aussi le

Shamsudeen

onenonlyshams

A Glimpse of Medieval Somalia I thought it would be fun to dive into what we now know about medieval Somali society in a story format.Let's say you were transported

Dan Lockton & the Imaginaries Lab

imaginari_es

In case you hadn't seen it, if you're interested in design, there are some amazing projects and demos from the @acmdis2020 #acmdis2020 conference online at present, showing the latest experiments

Lil⁷ Shijie is Hosting a Conference 🐰🐰

flowerofgusu

A thread of Lil's CQL/MDZS translation notes! *Translation is a slippery art, so these are not objective facts. These are literary interpretations. *I do not work as a translator. I

Farrow

s_wangji

A thread highlighting how protective Mew is with Gulf, the lengths he will go to ensure Gulf is comfortable and safe.#MewGulf#MewSuppasit#GulfKanawutMew was rightly fuming about this and called the perpetrator

Thomas Wier

thomas_wier

Weekly Georgian Etymology: გამარჯობა gamarǯoba 'hello', from გამარჯვება gamarǯveba victory, triumph, from Proto-Kartvelian *ma-rǯv- overcome, defeat, from PK *rǯv- right, nimble. It illustra

Lisa Fagin Davis

lisafdavis

Good morning, everyone. In today’s #BreakfastPaleography, we’re going back to basics: Paleography as literacy. Let’s learn how to read a script that can be particularly difficult because it is so

Ciaran Conliffe

shinyemptyhead

Currently a carpet store and restaurant in Ballyshannon town, this building used to be the military barracks for the town. It's home to not just one but two famous ghost

Jeffrey Alan Miller

jeffalanmiller

A thread on the ongoing “freeze” (or collapse) in #HigherEd of faculty hiring in the #Humanities: ... 1/ Over the weekend, I learned that @NJBIZ and its Chief Editor @jkanige

Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

DrAlakbarov

This isn't the Third Reich. This is Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, in the 1930s.To his circle of fervent recruits, he was “Jack King” – the

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Iyervval

1n thread to amplify & expand on an important point that @rahulroushan made. Islam is both a political ideology & a religion. It however mandates both of its followers in

Illumined Wizard Grugarchus Maximus

SonOfTheSeaKing

Medieval Catholicism be like "You know that allegorical symbol that's supposed to represent experiencing all there is to experience in the world and the totality of Creation? That's actually a

Historic Southampton

HistoricalSoton

THREAD - THE SOUTHAMPTON BLITZ:#OnThisDay eighty years ago - 23 November 1940 - the Luftwaffe targeted Southampton and the town suffered its most destructive raid of the Blitz so far.It

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

Everyone has heard of the people making an effort to live more natural lives, off-grid, usually deep in the country or far away from other people. What if I told

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

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