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Hi! It’s @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week.Today, we’re moving on from Ethiopian diplomacy with late medieval Latin Europe to see how this connects to local Ethiopian history & particularly

Conspiracy! Fear! Loathing! Marriage! Relics! Spy-Craft! Public Execution! Gold! I’m @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian this week. Today I’m bringing you the tale of the Ethiopian embassy to Valencia of the 1420s,

Hi! This is @KrebsVerena again, your #Twittistorian for the week. Today we’ll look at how #medieval Ethiopian outreach to Europe got started & trace the very first Solomonic embassy of

Hello again! This is @KrebsVerena, your #Twittistorian for the week, with a bonus thread — on how 3 Ethiopian monks crossed the Alps in the 1410s, attended the Council of

It's been a fun week for me (@MichaelDPress) as #Tweetistorian, thanks again to @DrWorsTen and @sasanianshah & to everyone else for following.A thread of threads for the week:~mp 1. An

Today, let's take a tour inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem & see some of the shops & buildings around the turn of the 20th centuryPhotochrom of the exterior of the

A thread on the most (in)famous antiquities dealer in 19th-century Palestine, Moses Wilhelm Shapira In the 1870s and early 1880s, Shapira had a shop on Christian St. (now generally called

1/15 The #1950s #syndrome coined by Swiss #historian Christian Pfister is a key concept in #envhist to mark the unprecedented #fossilfuel dependency in post-#WW2 developed World. With @MogensRudiger I (@PoulsenBo)

Increasingly, I am conscious of living in a new age, The Anthropocene: The geological era, where humans impact the entire biosphere through #climatechange and loss of biodiversity. Closely coupled with

Happy Wednesday, #Twittistorian friends! This is @sliptonmedieval, tweeting again about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at the evolution of the Jewish caricature. Today: its afterlife in political cartoons. Warning: it will

Good morning #Twittistorian friends! This is @sliptonmedieval; This week I am tweeting about #Imagesashistory. Yesterday we looked at medieval clerics' fears that misread images could create heresy. Today: how images

ARE YOU READY TO COCOOOOO??Folks, folks, IT'S ON. You've been waiting for this, and it's time.Medieval. European. Coconuts.Friends, he DID find them. He found them at the shop. Yesterday we