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I tried explaining this to my Latina manager at work and it both blew her mind and made her suoer depressed 😩 she said her family reps where they come from down to the village her great grandmother was born in...

^^^ depressing. Like they cut our ties to wherever we came from. Black history?? The same history they tell us to forget or get over it. Can't even find our lineage

ok sorry why is black censored in that tweet????

Love it!!

WE CAN NEVER BE THIS COOL

Effortless, classy, legendary. This child has stolen all of the cool factor for herself and we should just let her have it.

This pic is so powerful I swear

Alison was such a popular name in medieval England that authors would name women characters Alison to indicate that she was supposed to be a very normal kind of person

People in northern England in medieval times used to refer to themselves as I while people from the south referred to themselves as ich so you can tell when a northern character is imitating a southern accent when they start saying “ich will” instead of “I will” or vice versa

Friars/traveling priests these days are remembered as very holy figures. Not necessarily so in medieval times! They had a reputation for going from town to town and boinking random unmarried women.

Yes beer was given to children but the beer that was given to children or consumed at most meals was really low in alcohol content. Think modern day kombucha. High alcohol stuff was for adults.

Medieval peasants grew a lot of stuff in personal gardens like onions, garlic, and rosemary so even though they were limited in what they were allowed to hunt or grow legally they probably had some very tasty meals.

In the very early middle ages even the nobility were illiterate. Pretty much only monks knew how to read and write. William the conqueror? Was most likely illiterate.

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After the Normans conquered England and nobility started to learn how to read, there’s a period between about 1066 and 1200-ish where all “English” literature in the sense that it was from England, was written in French. When things were written in English again it had already merged with French somewhat so what happened in between Old English and Middle English? idk.

These days the stereotype is that men are very horny and women are reserved and aren’t as concerned with sex. For most of European history that stereotype was actually reversed! It was still the same amount of sexist though.

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People in the British isles have been continuously making some version of oat cakes since at least the time of the Roman conquest. The definition of an oat cake though, varies from region to region even today. In some regions they are similar to oatmeal cookies while in other regions they are more like pancakes.

Medieval historians weren’t terribly concerned with accuracy. More likely they were concerned with entertainment. So in order to rid themselves of criticism when they were found out for making stuff up they often cite other people or books that may or may not exist or say that they heard it from this other guy so it’s not them making stuff up oh no it was that other guy. So that’s why we often have to depend on archeology to understand what actually happened and medieval “historical” texts are more often the study of literary experts rather than historians.

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Bloodletting was so popular as a medical treatment in medieval times that they sometimes treated wounds with bloodletting. Also, bloodletting and most cutting of humans for medical purposes in general including surgery was not performed by doctors. It was performed by barbers.

Medieval English literature from about Beowulf onward often includes a lot of long passages about putting on armor. This was actually quite fun and entertaining for the intended audience of these stories, who were usually warriors and knights who wanted to know what kind of cool armor their favorite legendary hero was wearing.

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In medieval literature, a person having a gap in their teeth is shorthand for “this person has a lot of sex”

I love these lil factoids. Idk how you know this but I feel educated and I’ve lived in the U.K. my entire life. History would’ve been way more interesting if we learnt this.

I took an English Medieval Literature class to cap off my English degree and the class itself was full of weird facts because literary history is odd but that also sent me down a massive medieval Britain related rabbithole in my freetime because uh it was weird, y'all.

🎵the Middle Ages were magic🎵

Greetings professor, I did not do your assignment because I am mentally ill

Greetings student, I did not grade your assignment because I am also mentally ill

terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

All the naysayers going “you know it’s not just 2020 and that the events of this year are actually the result of decades and 2021 won’t be magically better” Ahhh yes, strawman naysayer in my head and on my fb tl, I see you are very intelligent. But pal, it’s absolutely not the point at all. Hope has nothing to do with logic. We need celebrations the most when there is seemingly nothing to celebrate, which is why, even when everything is dark and bleak and we can’t even be together with the people we love, we put on our silly little party hats on december 31st, say “good riddence 2020 you absolute trash bastard” and perform this silly little ritual of giving a big ol cheers to whatever fresh new hell is coming next

“A heᵉᵉᵉˡˡˡᵐᵉeeettt!”

“….David”

One of their BEST scenes

In love with the concept that men still wear hats like that

This is better than any action movie ive ever seen

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