If took me an embarrassingly long time to work out that someone who had discussed two possible infantry spacings in their text was actually using an average of the two on their map. It probably didn't help that I wrote down the length of one formation wrong, which threw everything off for a time.

Vatican gearing up to declare a 9th Holy Crusade specifically on JD's ass.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

So Fantasy grows out of Romance (medieval) but rejects Romance (contemporary) because for girls, so Romance (contemporary) develops into something increasingly un-Fantastical, and has to be portmanteued back into Fantasy (Romantasy), despite Fantasy being originally Romance...

Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet imgur.com/a/poll-resul...

Was at the pub when a friend said "have you seen St John of the Cross' 'Ascent of Mount Carmel'? I've always found it to be quite... Phallic. But I've looked and nobody's written about it! I don't think they've noticed!" And I looked it up like "how bad can it be if nobody's noticed?" This is it:

Women of the Empire Safaee, Yazdan. 2026. Women of the empire: Life and labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives (Ancient Iran Series 20). Leiden: Brill. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the status and roles of women within the socio-economic framework of the Achaemenid Empire.…

Minion's situation is worse than it seemed, and he's going to need surgery on both his knees. Please, share this widely. Anything you can do helps. #transcrowdfund #medicalcrowdfund #mutualaidrequest

Well this is fucking stupid.

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

This is a great reminder and something that ChatGPT cannot do but academic editors can! And are really good at it!

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Now that everyone is talking about Hungary, may I point out that the *really* interesting phase of Hungarian history - the ‘great power in the region’ phase - came before the early modern period? Here’s the book on the subject that I edited 25 years ago; still readily accessible and fairly priced. 😉

#Skystorians it is not too late to book for this in person summer school course, in London 8-12 June, where we cover the basics of working with medieval manuscripts. Ideal for graduate students, #librarians, or anyone with an interest in medieval books.

The 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School, 27-31 July 2026 at The Priory Rooms in Birmingham. palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Gentleman, this is patriarchy manifest.

GENTLEMEN, THIS IS ESCAPE-RrrrOOM MANIFEST!

You know, Agincourt is an interesting battle. The archaeology says it can't have happened where the sources very clearly say it did, and I haven't seen anyone who can reconcile the two. Either the selected site doesn't fit our best eyewitness source, or the archaeology refutes it.

The Hungarian youth are thirsting for change

"There is every likelihood that Edmund Spenser knew Batman." "Batman consulted medieval manuscripts of scripture and religious texts." you knew what you were doing referring to him by surname cmon

Before some dumbass brings up "hurr durr marriage and child bearing age used to be lower!" No it didn't. Those laws only ever applied to a sliver of the population in a handful of regions. Bioarchaeology shows the median age of marriage was 21 to 22 and the childbearing death peak was around 26.

Some research on deplatforming. I have to delete the original head of the thread so saving this here.

This is by request. Available NOW, a Peony/Death Omen tote bag! Yep. Cute birb Peony having tea on one side, DEATH OMEN ON THE OTHER!! Plus, a cute inside pocket. www.gossipbirdbooks.com/product/peon...

I've been rereading a few sources (primary and secondary) on Agincourt, and it seems surprising to me that I can't find anything in modern scholar on the claim in 'M.I. Collect. Miscell.,' (from the College of Heralds) that there were 812 men-at-arms and 3073 archers at Agincourt. /1

Does Greasing Shaft's Help Them Through Shield? 🛡️

I just received a random message on Telegram that was obviously a scam - anyone who can afford to pay 500k to a stranger to get pregnant can afford IVF - and it makes me simultaneously incredulous and sad that this scheme must work on some people.

I was playing with this earlier in the week, and I rather like it. A combination of the 13th C. Psalter map of the world, and a more modern (as in, I drew it this week) map of the Mediterranean basin.

DUDES! HERE'S AN EASY WAY TO BE AN ALLY: TELL US WHAT YOU MAKE (anonymously, for a survey, she's legit)

Amazing. From an Air Force history of the MH-53 Pave Low, the backstory of how the Air Force helped Tom Clancy get Pave Low details right in the book Clear and Present Danger, and jealous Army SOF officers allegedly then connived to have MH-60s replace the Pave Low in the movie

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Just a bunch of re-enactors (but trained fighters) having a little fun fight in the snow and making a youtube video... and it looks better and more historically accurate than many big budget films & tv shows! Also Landsknechts looking splendid as always: youtu.be/VinzfRbdtbg?...

The eBook of Castle is only 99p right now. Repost this for a chance to win a signed copy of the original hardback edition. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

We hit 50% funded 🦦✨ On our way to 11k with just 14 days left to make this book a reality! Check out our fun talking animal post-apocalyptic adventure on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/meg...

People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.

If you're very naughty in Germany you can get arrested by the SEK chaps wearing mail. I bet I'd have to bring up medieval armour as they handcuff me.

GO NOMINATE

That moment who you obliquely mention Matilda [of Canossa] and the WW2 tank fan jokes about the Matilda tanks 😂

Scottish tour of the Louvre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 youtube.com/shorts/z0SnX...

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Buying direct from authors -or small presses- is a great way to support us. But there isn't a store with everyone's direct links on it so... Direct Sales Thread! Indie Authors, Describe your books, drop a graphic & a link to your direct store/ small press! (eg. Payhip/ Kofi/ Itchio etc) 🌈📚🪐💙🏳️‍⚧️🧠

catholics: oh hey u guys are back early me: pope's woke catholics: what? me: *grabs rosary, heads toward the confessional* pope's woke

Give 'em hell 54th!

LLMs can’t tell the difference between 5 cats in a trench coat and any professional who wears a trench coat

#medievalsky #medievalwarfare 

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 5th century BC.

404 BCE: Squads in Athens are tearing residents from their homes. Some are thrown out of the city. Others are murdered in cold blood. What happens next? Listen to the full episode with Roel Konijnendijk to find out... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/the-thirty...

A recent study compares Native American objects dating as far back as the Folsom tradition (10,800-10,200 BC) in the Late Pleistocene with known indigenous dice traditions and concludes that they represent the oldest-known material evidence for games of chance. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...