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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
I'm fascinated by what Bible stories medieval artists DON'T depict. Like the Philistines crafting golden hemorrhoids to appease God or David bringing Saul 200 Philistine foreskins as Saul asked, in
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Thread: weird medieval depictions of God creating Eve. First up: Eve looking like a novelty balloon.(Morgan Library, MS m766, f. 022v) #MedievalTwitter This is part of the set of medieval
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
In the Early Middle Ages only the clergy could read and write, right? And if there were some lay people that could they were only men, right? It's impossible that
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Rutger K
AnotherAspirin
There's a persistent idea in modern historiography that there were no "individuals" in the Middle Ages (you know, "artists were just craftsmen that's why they didn't sign the altarpieces they
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Mateusz Fafinski
Calthalas
Languages have been dying out in Late Antiquity too. Sometimes (well, most of the time actually) we learn about them in quite unusual ways. A little thread 1/Isidore, Etymologies,
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Seb Falk
Seb_Falk
I was supposed to be teaching a module on the #Crusades for @Cambridge_ISP this summer. It's been cancelled, of course, but I'd already bought some new books! Hoping to find
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
I recently discovered that the phrase "curry favor" comes from a medieval French *musical* about bestiality.CW: thread contains image of a nun cleaning the horse's penis. #MedievalTwitter The entire narrative
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Passion Médiévistes
PMedievistes
Contrairement à ce que l’on pense généralement, la guerre est aussi une affaire de femmes au Moyen Âge. Pas seulement parce qu’elles en sont les victimes ou se disent envoyées
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
This is a meta-thread of my medieval threads, so they're all in one place, and I don't forget/lose track of them. Wander down memory lane with me! First stop: medieval
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Passion Médiévistes
PMedievistes
#THREAD Albi, 1434 : l’évêque Pierre de Neveu meurt. Aussitôt, une lutte pour sa succession s’engage. Et le moins qu’on puisse dire, c’est qu’elle devient très vite acharnée. «Aimez-vous les
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Rebecca Pinner
DrRebeccaPinner
Images of #Easter from #medieval East Anglia: for Holy Saturday, the Harrowing of Hell. A non-Biblical story which was popular in the #middleages, it describes Christ descending to hell
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Axel Folio, PhD, carries soup for the family
ISASaxonists
#medievalstudies On the anniversary of my resignation from ISXX (lol) I wanted to present you with a gift. Here's a 3-part series (3 links below) on the problematic term "Anglo-Saxon."
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
For Pride Month, I present a thread of homoerotic medieval depictions of the sign Gemini.[TW: there will be medieval images of erections down thread; yes, really](Morgan Library, MS M101, f.
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Ambereen Dadabhoy
DrDadabhoy
Tell me about a publication that YOU wrote that you & are PROUD of. I want to read & share your work. Mine is pictured below: my first Shax
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Medieval marginalia of knights fighting snails have had a weird heyday on the internet, but did you know that the motif was mostly a brief 20-year fad from 1290 to
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Matt Gabriele
prof_gabriele
when I ran for county board of supervisors in 2011 (i won!) I joked at campaign events that I understood working with Republicans because I was a medievalist. was a
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