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"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet"

Whether 'tis so or not, personal names were surprisingly unruly in the late medieval Middle East.

Scholars base a surprising number of conclusions on names, but need to grapple more.

1/x ~tac

Why did we need a book about Christians in fifteenth-century Mesopotamia? Weren't they just a tiny sliver of the population? What did they matter? Isn't this book just special pleading for an irrelevant minority?

Actually, were they a minority?

https://t.co/hkZUONbLPv
1/x ~tac

One of my favourite things about studying 15th c. humanists is how, while they pretend to be better than their world (they invented the phrase "the Dark Ages"!), they are so clearly embroiled in it. Take Niccolo Perotti (1429-1480), archbishop of Siponto and grammarian -BT

9/9 If you’d like to know more about Najaf’s (complicated) South Asian connection & its consequences, I can highly recommend these works by great colleagues, such as @jricole. If you enjoyed this thread, give me a follow @Simon_W_Fuchs. Thanks!~swf #twitterstorians #twittistorian

Thanks for a great week, everyone! I'm going back to my regular account ( @erik_kaars). My thanks to @sasanianshah and @DrWorsTen for letting me host this week. Here's a master thread of my threads from the week. #MedievalTwitter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

#VikingShips are a thing of beauty, and one well timed for the north Atlantic settlement expansion I study. Marine technology became well adapted to exploration voyages during the seventh and eight centuries. Its uses became integrated into the coastal life of northern Europe. 1/

The Turcopoles (“sons of Turks”) were soldiers who fought in the Turkish manner, having learned to it from their fathers even as they shared their mothers’ loyalties. They served as light cavalry in the Byzantine army during the post-Manzikert Comnenian reconquest of Anatolia.

A map and thread on Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman and early Byzantine eras — for more on this topic see this great paper by Andrew Wilson, https://t.co/xVzBQSbCTw, and this short discussion by me (@caitlinrgreen), https://t.co/VQZx7BvAR6 :)