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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Random thought, but is the tendency to refer casually to Viking sexual mores as "homophobic" a little off the mark? Maybe contemporary gay culture represents a closer analogy to their
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Medievalist here. So GOP Senator Loeffler's new ads claim she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun" & joke about killing "liberal scribes." Obv from a historical viewpoint, this is just
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn
KVMFinn
I highly encourage my #medievaltwitter colleagues to read this thread, and to take the time to digest the difficult but important piece that @homophonous produced in response to Heng's Invention
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Dr Iain MacInnes
IainMacInnesUHI
To continue with the #NevillesCross campaign, #OTD the Scottish army under David II arrived outside #Durham and camped in the bishop's manor of Bearpark. They had been busy over the
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
[TW: racism] Thread: In 1849, a London periodical called The Anglo-Saxon appeared with the stated goal of popularizing the term "Anglo-Saxon"as a racial & linguistic term tied to the early
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
We Need to Talk about Charlemagne: A #MedievalTwitter Thread.So. Some medieval German literature claims Emperor Charlemagne was into necrophilia. And briefly men. And then attracted to a swamp. Perhaps sexually.
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Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴🏳️🌈
ofnwchyrhenwaed
1/12Okay here we go.In medieval Wales land was owned and managed under the gwely system, by which land was held by the family as a four generational family concern. Land
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Everyone loves gal pals! Just women being friends! Here's a thread of medieval illustrations of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth that suggest that they were gay for each other. (Morgan
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
How to Have Sex in the 600s: A very NSFW #MedievalTwitter Thread. Archbishop Theodore gave many judgments on what sexual acts were appropriate (and not) in the late 600s in
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
Happy Tuesday y'all, it's @tlecaque still, and let's talk regionalism, chaos, and the breakdown of central authority in Francia in the 10th century. That's right, it's feudal revolution time! #medievaltwitter,
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Ugh, I can't believe I need to go down this road, but let's discuss a case study of how the Western idea of illness in leaders shifted from acceptable to
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TeamQueens
TeamQueensHist
Today's #QueenoftheDay #QOTD is Sayyida al-Hurra! Sayyida al-Hurra was born likely in 1485 (but possibly as late as 1495) to Mulay Ali Ibn Rashid (emir of Chefchaouen) and Lalla Zohra
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
THREAD: So I study medieval sex, and what *fascinates* me are sex acts that don't get discussed in medieval texts. Take analingus/rimming: almost NEVER mentioned, but it appears *all the
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Dr. Erik Wade
erik_kaars
Here's a AMAZING 12th-century Middle Irish story about lesbians accidentally having a baby. A woman asked the king to determine her baby's father, bc she hadn't sex with a man
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Axel Folio, PhD, carries soup for the family
ISASaxonists
THREAD: So among all the usual inaccuracies to be found in a right-wing article about the term “Anglo-Saxon” (which there is no ban on its use – it’s inaccurate, misleading,
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Hope Doherty
EHopeDoherty
At the kind request of @Seb_Falk here is a #medievaltwitter thread about the Virgin Mary's girdle, as seen in this pic I posted yesterday:https://twitter.com/EHopeDoherty/status/12501158638580695051/ Mary's Assumption happened a short time
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