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[TW: racism, homophobia, antisemitism.] #MedievalTwitter thread: White supremacists are very invested in academic conversations. One major UK white supremacist account put out a long livestream video about the academic debate

I recently discovered that the phrase "curry favor" comes from a medieval French *musical* about bestiality.CW: thread contains image of a nun cleaning the horse's penis. #MedievalTwitter The entire narrative

As a historian of sex & Christianity, lemme say that people mad at @LilNasX for giving Satan a lap dance in a music video should read literally any medieval theologian,

I haven't really said anything about this whole situation, but it's harming people I respect, so here goes. About a week ago, an anonymous account attacked Sydnee Wagner for talking

Hi, it's October, time for a thread of spoopy medieval skeletons.(BL, MS Additional 37049, f. 31v) #MedievalTwitter Surprise!(Bod Lib, MS Douce 104, f. 71r) Big smile!(BL, MS Royal 18 A

Thread: weird medieval depictions of God creating Eve. First up: Eve looking like a novelty balloon.(Morgan Library, MS m766, f. 022v) #MedievalTwitter This is part of the set of medieval

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

Medieval Butts and Where to Find Them: A ThreadThis thread is remarkably not safe for work. You've been warned!(BL, MS Stowe 17, f. 54r)#MedievalTwitter Some butts are in bloom.(BnF, MS

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

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

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

I am fascinated by medieval Christian depictions of Biblical events with obscene marginalia. Like this page depicting Christ carrying the cross & a man shooting an arrow at another man's