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medieval lit is really fun. there will be a footnote that is like “nobody knows what the author meant there and scholars have been debating it for centuries” 
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Men of the H. A. C. outside their dug-out in Sanctuary Wood, June 1915.
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Valentine Card Envelope (1857-65).
Embossed paper with ink writing and wax seal.
Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0
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Here he spoke for all of us. Go off, king!!!
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light | Episode Five 'Mirror'
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Summer Richards as Katherine Howard
Wolf Hall 2.05
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Another grave that is being swallowed by a tree over a very long period of time. About 222 years so far.
Chester Center Cemetery 3/26/20
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The north east view of Pennarth castle, in the county of Glamorgan - trimmed and cleaned. Date 1741, engraving. Samuel Buck (1696–1779) were English engraver .
Pennard Castle is a ruined castle located near the modern village of Pennard on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. The castle was built in the early 12th century as a wooden enclosure after the Norman invasion of Wales. The walls were rebuilt in stone at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020)
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I am a museum girl. above everything I am a museum girl
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obedience.
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It's hilarious to me that Al Capone was an amazing tipper. I get why it took so long to catch him.
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Medievalist Professor Answers Medieval Questions From Twitter
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'Knightley.' I could not have believed it. 'Knightley.' Never met him before in her life and calls him 'Knightley.' And to discover that he is a gentleman. Upstart, vulgar being, with her 'Mr. E' and her cara sposo.
EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
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this is such a strong opening paragraph for an article about a medieval cookbook
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Clara Bow in It (1927)
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