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 ...

2. There were more people making enough in the early 14thC to be liable for tax than almost anywhere else in England, and the average community was among the wealthiest n the country. So where did their money come from?

As many of my Twitter threads as I've been able to find in the last few days are now collated on my wordpress site. Thanks to many of you for the suggestion 💐💐💐https://t.co/SEnMvcCoqJ

A bull yoked with a cow on this 1st-3rdC copper-alloy statuette of a #Romano-British ploughman in his rainproof, hooded cloak probably depicts a special occasion (see https://t.co/jpFIwNrOok) - it may also be early evidence for use of the heavy #plough, rather than an ard

14. So it seems vanishingly unlikely that the house was built as a rectory. Who was it built for? Enter the St George family, a Norman family who built up a large Cambs., were keen to establish their new status, & were the king’s tenants in Kingston by 1182. And look ...

How still this early #medieval #silver-gilt furry beast - perhaps a large #cat - stands, yearning to be out of doors as it waits for the blustery weather to end.
It's a fragment of an 8th-century decorative mount of some kind, found in Norfolk. https://t.co/K3IaJhE7MV

And here’s another of the Hockwold ‘crowns’ https://t.co/ZOEfpHFdpb /4