#Plague

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

New thread of quick reading on the current state of Black Death studies (for new followers). I'm listing only #OpenAccess work, but remember that good scholarship costs $$, just like

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1/. “We feared the balmy air. We feared the cloudless sky, the flower-covered earth, & delightful woods.”In 1826, Mary Shelley published The Last Man, a novel set in 2100 imagining

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champagnepvki

For everyone thinking that Hajj being cancelled certainly signifies the end of the world:A thread on when Hajj was cancelled: 865: Massacre on Arafat Mountain - Hajj cancelled930: Qarmatian attack

pamela joy stafford

pstafford3

Dylan lyrics for 2020 (a thread)Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’Through a world mysterious and vague Heart burnin’, still yearnin’Walking through the cities of the plague Ain’t nothin’ left here partner,

Mr E

VEverettmfl

The word quarantine comes from the Venetian word for 14. The number of crew on a Venetian galley was 14 and if a boat arrived with fewer than the full

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Over here on Jewish time, we’re in the middle of counting the Omer, the seven week time between Passover and our next major holiday, Shavuot. It has some pretty powerful

Fidato

tequieremos

"How the Roman Empire faced a Global Pandemic under the wise, courageous Marcus Aurelius" In 161, Marcus Aurelius became the Emperor of the Roman Empire and ruled for nearly two

Saoirse, Archduchess of You Called Me A Horse

ALWETP

Well, I've been boarding homeless trans women for the last um.... Mmm. Five years? Six? Idk, time is weird. But anyway, that alone is more than you're doing by actively

🇬🇧 David I Birch

dbirch214

History.A Blog about "The Late Antique Little Ice Age."We rightly fear climate change in the form of global warming, but in the later Roman Empire, the greater danger was sudden

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

This isn't the first Passover Jews will be celebrating during times of affliction and pain. What the wisdom of our ancestors can teach us about this moment. 1/x Thread. This

Deepak Joshi

ideepakjoshi

1666, Bombay, Pandemics - and thereby hangs a tale. The Great Fire of London occurred in 1666, continuing for 4 days. An unintended consequence was in plague cases coz

SocialPariah

Non_granta

Lessons from Prophet (pbuh) on dealing with viruses. A thread: On Quarantine: “Run away from the leper (the one with contagious ailment) as you would run away from a lion.”(Bukhari

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Absolutely not. I rebuke all of this. In

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

THREADFor @Patrick__MorrowChallenge accepted.Not that @realDonaldTrump needs my help, but this is a good exercise in debunking Democrat propaganda. The tweet in question. We'll take each demented claim one at a

Steve Sawyer @🏠

SawyerSteve

This Is Really Happening!Remember the scene in Rosemary’s Baby when Rosemary comes to that realization while in the depths of a “dream” that she is being raped by Satan? You

Dr. Erik Wade

erik_kaars

There's a new Op-Ed about how "medieval" America's response to the plague is. I'm sure #MedievalTwitter has thoughts, but, since my Global Medieval Lit class happens to have been reading