Prof Susan Oosthuizenさんのイラストまとめ

What a way to start the New Year! Here’s @Tess_Machling & @bodgit_bendit’s wonderful ‘Great Book of Torcs’, available on open access via https://t.co/CTJf5kmjF4. Plenty of time to browse before midnight 🥂💐🎉🎺🤸🏼‍♂️💫🙌

Enjoying the thoughtfulness with which this expressive predynastic Egyptian bowl is reviewing its past seasonal excesses and considering its new year's resolutions c3900-3650BC 😝 https://t.co/6WKfNFuOeo

... 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 ....

2. The survival of Romano-British Christian traditions across the period - even in E England - is suggested by a range of other evidence, including (eg) the distribution of Latin place-names for church: ie from ‘eclesia’ rather than Old English ‘cirice’ (https://t.co/fWFblCu6LW)

@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

The stunning #treasure, dating between 750-825, was hidden in a wooden box under a cross-marked slab in the pre-Norse church on St Ninian's Isle in Shetland. More via https://t.co/QaS0gysqjt; https://t.co/pNiaMmyl5K

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 😇

My keynote on ‘Space and distance through the lenses of time & property’ at the 25th Medieval Studies Day on ‘Space and Distance in the Middle Ages’, Friday 8 November 2019 at the University of Antwerpen. Details via
https://t.co/aK9UFoOh1j