Prof Susan Oosthuizenさんのイラストまとめ

How lovely: 'God spede the #plough, & sende us korne enow' - even the oxen look happy (though the ploughmen less so), and we’re suddenly in the room with the #medieval scribe illustrating the frontispiece to his 14thC manuscript of Piers Plowman (https://t.co/9KJTxTGLCX, f.001v).

Mmmmmm maps of Clare #Castle in 1785, 1837, c.1890 & today respectively showing the castle on its mmmotte, & *two* baileys: an inner bailey (below) & an outer bailey (above). The motte was surrounded by a large water-filled ditch which went on to divide the baileys.. #medieval /2

13. And the rest of the year here. What these timings reveal is..

12. So if one represents this pictorially the calendar year looks like this ...

... by time, period, place and culture. Explanations are useful models for understanding the past. Claiming them as definitive ‘truths’ can be a lot more difficult. Eg https://t.co/hwqfrAT7Li. END

...were 3rd-hand interpretations of that 2nd-hand experience. The analogy is a reminder that, like the Lady of Shalott, we construct explanations of the past from fragmentary evidence, it’s meaning often opaque, refracted through the complexities imposed ....

@WhoresofYore And, of course, the great Olaudah Equiano (c1745-1797) whose wife was from Wisbech, and who is buried in St Andrew’s church, Chesterton, now in Cambridge city https://t.co/LVHRf1nSIs

@mixosaurus Have you seen Alicia Merrett’s work? https://t.co/RE98fcBJut

Today is the Feast of St Andrew when #medieval communities traditionally celebrated the safe return of flocks/herds from distant summer #commons. Dr Graham Jones suggests that church dedications to St Andrew may reveal local economies in which animals wr specially important 😇

11. So here’s some pasture held under private property rights - the farmer controls access to his grassland and in this way is able to manage the stock and the land to ensure both the former’s health and the latter’s long-term productivity & sustainability.