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Do you think that the six queens of Henry VIII actually did not receive attention? But each of them has a biography, which is rare among women in history.

i think the tudor period as a whole receives too much attention. tudor fatigue is very much a thing! to the extent where the tudors have lost a degree of respectability amongst academics, because it’s seen as pulpy and embarrassing — i know a hysterical number of people within the sector who try to avoid the tudors, and people who hate them. so just because all the wives have at least one biography, it doesn’t mean they’re good biographies. it’s almost like the egregious capitalisation of the period is… a bad thing!

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“Dost thou see a book before thee?”

THE VVITCH (2015) | dir. Robert Eggers

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Cemeteries of Paris in my analog camera

Paris, France; VIII 2023

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“In 1549 AD Robert Kett yeoman farmer of Wymondham was executed by hanging in this Castle after the defeat of the Norfolk Rebellion of which he was leader. In 1949 AD – four hundred years later – this Memorial was placed here by the citizens of Norwich in reparation and honour to a notable and courageous leader in the long struggle of the common people of England to escape from a servile life into the freedom of just conditions” - Norwich Castle Plaque

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I genuinely think Philomena Cunk interview questions are academically valuable in that 1. They force experts to consider ridiculous scenarios they never would have thought of having to deal with and 2. They test the ability of academics to explain their fields to laypeople and challenge the idea that “everybody knows xyz.” I think part of all higher level degree programs should involve having to get interviewed by Philomena Cunk

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L'anse Aux Meadows. The only completely authenticated European site in North America, a Norse settlement dating back to around 1000 AD. Discovered on Newfoundland in 1961. Studies of ancient Icelandic sagas indicate that this was the land known as Vinland to the Vikings. Leif Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, is credited with first landing in Vinland.

officialabouthistory

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stop making me look at the new wuthering heights costume design do you want me to KILL MYSELF with a GUN???????

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Gay is a really funny minority because with other minorities it's like "first black president! first female nobel prize winner' or whatever but with gay people it's "first openly gay" because we all already know there's been a bunch of gay ones already. like nobody even disputes this. gay president? yeah pretty sure we've had gay presidents. gay, you know, king of england? what you think none of those motherfuckers have been fucking gay?

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I can't stop thinking about this medieval girl and her dog ❤️🥲

(Les Trés Riches Heures de Metz, 14th century)

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every day it's primary source analysis vs my will to live

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medieval gender studies

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"Put in simplest terms, Matilda was neither a king, nor a queen. The transgender nature of her career is thus an undeniable aspect of medieval and modern scholarship on Matilda. Historian Charles Beem notes, “The quasi-religious and juridical sovereignty vested in kingship was gendered male; the kings of England were represented as lions, whose image threatened blazingly from the royal arms. Thus, when a woman was vested with the sovereignty of kingship, the state did not temporarily become a queendom; the lions of England did not suddenly shed their manes upon the accession of a female ruler.” As a historical figure, [Matilda] cannot be gendered within the existing binary within through which scholarship on English monarchies desires to operate. This refusal has contributed to her liminal status in studies of both kingship and queenship. "

-Coral Lumbley, "Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing the Female King in Twelfth-Century England", Medieval Feminist Forum, Volume 55, 1 (2019)

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Forum, Rome -- September 19th, 2024

Etsy

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Elizabeth Cameron Mawson

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Happy Ides of March everybody, did you know the place where we believe Caesar was stabbed is now a Cat Sanctuary

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historical inaccuracies in period dramas are okay as long as i like them