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Ok, I'm dithering to avoid sending a piece of writing, SO how about a mini-thread on medieval cannibal babies? Medieval Christian theologians were OBSESSED with the cannibal baby question: if
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Here's a AMAZING 12th-century Middle Irish story about lesbians accidentally having a baby. A woman asked the king to determine her baby's father, bc she hadn't sex with a man
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Everyone loves gal pals! Just women being friends! Here's a thread of medieval illustrations of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth that suggest that they were gay for each other. (Morgan
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I'm fascinated by what Bible stories medieval artists DON'T depict. Like the Philistines crafting golden hemorrhoids to appease God or David bringing Saul 200 Philistine foreskins as Saul asked, in
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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
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BUNNIES. A Thread.Just cute bunnies doing normal bunny things! Very normal!(BL, MS Additional 15423, f. 41v) #MedievalTwitter Bunny watching a murder!(Lansdowne 346 f. 7 David and Goliath) #MedievalTwitter Bunnies on
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For Pride Month, I present a thread of homoerotic medieval depictions of the sign Gemini.[TW: there will be medieval images of erections down thread; yes, really](Morgan Library, MS M101, f.
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A #MedievalTwitter thread of medieval creatures who need to be emojis. One for every mood!First up: TFW it's Monday already.(Morgan Library, MS M357, f. 209r) When it is TOO EARLY
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Does anyone know what these figures are doing with their feet? I keep seeing it described as "wrestling," but I've never found any explanation, and I've found versions of this
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Thread: Did you know cats feature in early medieval law? The 10th-cent Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda listed the qualities of a good cat: “that it not devour its kittens,
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This is a meta-thread of my medieval threads, so they're all in one place, and I don't forget/lose track of them. Wander down memory lane with me! First stop: medieval
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Medieval marginalia of knights fighting snails have had a weird heyday on the internet, but did you know that the motif was mostly a brief 20-year fad from 1290 to
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