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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,

Spices, Easter cooking, early medieval world. How important it was to spice up your meal in the 8th century (if you could afford it) and what does it tell us

This marble capital is Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in a nutshell. Originally probably from Ostia it was taken north of the Alps by Charlemagne for his palace

Unbelievable. Absolute disregard of qualitative methods of analysis, historical and art historical expertise. This is peddling bad science.This is dangerously bad. Others have commented on the art history failings but

Where do we even start with this? Humanities have been saying this for a long time. Historians encounter imagined pasts at every step of our work and have offered multiple

Why shouldn't we decide every year where the rail tracks should go based on passenger demand? And dismantle/build trains and stations every year?Because rail travel, just like universities, depends on

J. M. W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, c. 1835, oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art J. M. W. Turner, The Evening of the

This is positively medieval! It is just like in the times of the Roman Republic! That is the new Holy Roman Empire!Today in #MethodologyMonday thread we tackle comparisons with

Sometimes, when working with manuscripts we get really, really close to people from the past. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably

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

Do you want to know a secret? All history is subjective. There, I said it. But we will not just leave it at that. It's time for #MethodologyMonday: the Objectivity

Putting your name on money transfers to buttress or appropriate authority in times of crisis is very much a Medieval Thingᵀᴹ. Offa gave the pope dinars signed with his name