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Why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it
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The illuminations in bestiaries were a little bit like the medieval memes - often standarised images that could mean many things to different readers and having many versions. And they
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Why not “dark ages”? Why Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages matter? This is an experiment trying to argue for it in 10 tweets (w/footnotes). It is subjective, but
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Ok, time to @steak_umm historians to showcase that nuanced explanations can be communicated expertly!@LitteraCarolina manuscripts/science @monicaMedHist history of medicine@Pseudo_Isidore medieval West@j_t_palmer medieval science@FlintDibble archaeol
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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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Ok, ok, fine. Why can’t an event usher a new historical period but it can belong to one or another. A thread on the ontology of the past. 1/
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