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polardandy
ben wishaw as richard ii was a cultural reset, invented medieval twink kings, timmy chimichanga could NEVER I apologise, forgot that sir john gielgud actually paved the way
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Stephanie J. Lahey
StephanieLahey
Why?Multiple reasons.Then as now, writers started with rough drafts—but that’s a discussion for later (a good one).It’s challenging to write neatly in a codex (the binding distorts the page, so
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hallowteegan 🌙 5 @ GAME GRIND
starshiptetra
i wanna talk about my ocs is it okay if i talk about my ocs. i wanna talk about medieval furry story ok so. here we go “medieval furry story”
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Let's make a medieval book, shall we? And a scribe and an illuminator can show us how it's done in their own quill and brush!Bamberger Schreiberbild (Msc. Patr. 5), a
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
greenleejw
Have you been looking, without any luck, for eel testicles? Not sure how to sex an eel? Well don't worry...you're not alone. People from Aristotle onward tried & failed. Sigmund
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Prof Susan Oosthuizen
DrSueOosthuizen
THREAD. Well, here’s a thing. This is Toft in Cambs. - &, as you can see, the church (red dot) is quite a way from the village which lies to
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Women of 1000 AD
women_1000
It's #NationalPetMonth so here is a thread of medieval women with their pets! First off is Miss Zeng, a young student of history from Song Dynasty China. Cat fancying was
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WilliamMorrisGallery
WMGallery
THREAD William Morris, Jane Morris in Medieval Costume, 1861 -- While we're closed our curators are using social media to highlight some of their favourite objects in the order
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Did you know there were medieval debates about whether Jesus was circumcised and--if so--whether the foreskin went to heaven when Jesus ascended or was somewhere on earth still? Dozens of
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Kosmic Tonic, astrologers
Kosmic_Tonic
Traditional astrologers - can we talk "weak" houses for a minute? I'm specifically thinking about the Hellenistic and medieval delineations for the 12th, 6th, 2nd and 8th, but the following
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CrapFinds
CrapFinds
Who's up for an Inkwell thread??Well you're getting one anyway...As everyone knows thousands of years of inkwell usage was wiped away in a [pen]stroke with the advent of the C20th
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Dr Coralie Mills
Dendrochronicle
#museumsunlocked Some #Castles' fab old woods in #Scotland. First Caerlaverock Castle Wood studied for @HistEnvScot-complex medieval enclosures round both castles engulfed by trees now but mosaic of woodbanks & fields
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Owen Williams 🏴😷
OwsWills
Concealed from the world in a cleft in the Gower Peninsula's rugged sea cliffs, the clandestine Culver Hole is virtually invisible from the Wales Coast Path above.A magical medieval walled
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Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ
bdaiwi_historia
Long before Christoph Luxenberg, medieval Muslim authorities compiled lists of foreign vocabularies in the Quran. The Quran contains words from Ethiopian, Persian, Indian, Turkic, Nabatean, Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Greek, and
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Jan de Maansnijder
MaansnijderJan
Dutch as the Language of the Birds,A Thread 1. The Language of the Birds is reportedly a language spoken by the Angels, and also by Adam and Eve in Paradise,
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Eric Wolever
e_wolever
While much of this is quite correct, I do have two concerns about the framing of the issue here: 1) that allegory is presented as in opposition to a literal
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