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Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade
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Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    1. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" people: They were so superstitious! They thought eclipses were warnings sent by God! Author in 1464: This is how the shadow of the earth and the moon creates both lunar and solar eclipses. (BL, MS Royal 19 A IX f. 104, 106) #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/SqcLneKeR6

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    2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" people: They didn't understand the natural world. Medieval author in 1420: Here's a table of the upcoming eclipses. Author in the late 800s/early 900s: This is how the moon affects tides. (BL, MS Royal 17 A XVI f. 18; MS Harley 3017, f. 135) #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/cMxDIloy4Z

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    4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" people: Everyone stank in the Middle Ages bc they didn't bathe and all their teeth were rotten! Medieval person: What? Sorry, I was in the tub. My teeth are fine. We have a lower sugar diet than you. (BL, MS Additional 11619, f. 6v) #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/4jUcyL5dhT

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    5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" people: the Middle Ages were anti-woman and anti-sex! Jeanne de Montbaston, a medieval woman in the 1300s who is a professional illustrator: I'm drawing a series of nuns with penises. (BnF, MS Français 25526, f. 160r) #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/NbQWJOYlHu

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    6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

      "Modern" person, weakly: ....the Middle Ages were really homophobic? Schoolboys from the 1100s: We're learning Latin by reading these love letters between women! #MedievalTwitterhttps://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1070308027096539137 …

      Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

      Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade @erik_kaars
      Love letter from one twelfth-century nun to another nun. We read it in class on Tuesday and 😭😍😭 "[I] sigh for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird."💔 #medievaltwitter pic.twitter.com/LUv2bqoA6X
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    7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" person: ....they didn't have a global economy and trade system like us. 8th-century English King Offa: I had this coin made with my name on it, based on an Arabic dinar made for my fellow 8th-century king, Caliph al-Mansur. I might give it to the Pope. #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/KEoy6A20mS

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    8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      Racist "modern" people: Ok, but that was EUROPE. Ofc they were advanced. All of history: Are you being fucking serious rn? 11th-century China: We're using 70% as much coal as 18th-century Britain and have industrial mass-production of ceramics. #MedievalTwitter

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    9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      "Modern" people: But modernity is marked by mass-printing culture, which definitely wasn't invented before 1440. Korea and China from the 800s to 1000s: We have invented the printing press already. Also gunpowder. #MedievalTwitterhttps://lithub.com/so-gutenberg-didnt-actually-invent-the-printing-press/ …

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    10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      The story of history is more complicated than we are usually told. The Middle Ages had lots of scientific knowledge. Society was always more complex than a narrative of repression or progress. (BL, MS Arundel 66 f. 203; observations of the Sun and Venus) #MedievalTwitterpic.twitter.com/tLeoY3wS5i

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      Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

      As an addendum, for more myth-busting, @GoingMedieval's twitter feed and blog are always amazing. Here she is on the myth medieval people didn't bath: https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/ …

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        2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 15 Oct 2019

          Yes, for everyone asking, the solar system diagram shows earth in the center and was a poor choice to contrast with a joke about Galileo haha. My bad. The point is that scientific observation & astronomy didn’t cease in the Middle Ages, even if they got some things wrong.pic.twitter.com/AXYWajwFP0

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        3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 17 Oct 2019

          Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade

          Oh, here's a fun one: medieval people were just as capable as anyone else of respecting other peoples' pronouns, and some saints were men who were assigned female at birth:https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1143478441582452737 …

          Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,

          Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade @erik_kaars
          In the Old English Life of St. Euphrosyne, the assigned-female-at-birth saint lives as a monk & takes the name Smaragdus. The anonymous author switches to male pronouns for the saint. If the medieval author can respect a person's pronouns & not deadname them, so can you. pic.twitter.com/iUuMxqFIZi
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        2. Going Dutch  🌹‏ @ajventer 15 Oct 2019
          Replying to @erik_kaars @GoingMedieval

          Ill add: Anglocentrics: the English longbow was the height of pre-firearm individual military technology. It won Agincourt for us. Medieval Mongolia: our composite recurve bows can fire at the same force with half the draw power and are way easier to carry around.

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        3. Going Dutch  🌹‏ @ajventer 15 Oct 2019
          Replying to @ajventer @erik_kaars @GoingMedieval

          Anglocentrics: well we invented medieval armor piercing bodkin arrowheads! Germanics: actually you copied them from us. China: we've had those since at least 250BC. We were making multi-alloy bronze Bodkins in the very first empire. We don't even know how long before that.

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        1. Maarten Maesen‏ @Stakke82 15 Oct 2019
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          Nice thread!

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        1. David Ryan‏ @Ryan_Genealogy 15 Oct 2019
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          I wonder have they ever heard of computistics? Just because it was about determining the date of Easter doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of complicated math and observations of lunar cycles involved

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        1. She is Dr. Zoroaster‏ @Zoroaster8911 15 Oct 2019
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          How bizarre- I went to follow GoingMedieval, whom I’d never heard of, and she has me blocked!

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