@WeirdMedieval

by @tochterzwiebel // listen to my podcast and PREORDER MY UPCOMING BOOK OUT THIS NOVEMBER!!! // [email protected] for enquiries

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THE FIRST COPIES OF MY BOOK ARE HERE and they’re so beautiful i want to cry 🥹
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THANK YOU THRIFT GODS
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the sketchbook of villard de honnecourt, a 13th century french artist who would sometimes give up on drawing faces
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he was such a splendid artist
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so i have bad news for you about what a human is
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@webdevMasonOct 16
Whatever you think of the Shane Gillis joke there's an entire category of gym shorts that looks like it's made for a species of intelligent baboons
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late 20s life milestone: guy on the tube platform harassed me and by the end of the interaction he was crying
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trying to coin “all will be julian” as a shorthand for this sentiment who’s with me
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got interviewed for NPR absolutely massive npr.org/2026/10/10/nx-s1-599…
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i didn’t have cable tv as a kid i had public broadcasting and the great outdoors “”””spongebob”””” and his ilk were strictly forbidden all things considered WAS my spingebob
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tonight i saw @JessGillamSax perform a haunting rendition of Hildegard von Bingen’s Spiritus Sanctus on her soprano sax-led 8 person band and it ruled
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theyre looking for simurgh….
Gus Saltonstall
@GusSaltonstallOct 7
In an incredible development, Elisabeth and Sam Williams appear to have photographed 4 to 5 American Barn owls on Tuesday night outside of a building on W. 76th St. and Central Park West. The owls are "extremely rare" in New York City. Can any owl experts weigh in?
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weird medieval guys NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 5!!! retweeted
weird medieval guys NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 5!!!
@WeirdMedievalOct 6
MASSIVE event on this week in london town!! i am some dear friends will be at the British Museum hosting a big Bayeux Tapestry themed quiz on friday evening!! it will be really good fun with great prizes AND FREE TO ATTEND!! please do come down :)
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maybe the funniest part of the bayeux tapestry is when they briefly pause the narrative to show you a guy called wadard who then never shows up again
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shout out @readingmuseum
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MASSIVE event on this week in london town!! i am some dear friends will be at the British Museum hosting a big Bayeux Tapestry themed quiz on friday evening!! it will be really good fun with great prizes AND FREE TO ATTEND!! please do come down :)
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britishmuseum.org/events/bay…

Bayeux Late: medieval making

Join us for the start of the Bayeux Tapestry opening festival with the first Bayeux Late featuring workshops and activities.

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how do you guys like the answer sheet i made for my bayeux tapestry themed pub quiz
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every graphic element (including the dots comprising the dotted lines) is from this edition of C. A. Stothard's drawings of the tapestry archive.org/details/Bayeux/

The tapestry of Bayeux

The plates (dated 1819-23) are drawings by C. A. Stothard, engraved by James Basire. Published between 1821 and 1823 in the society's Vetusta monumenta, volume 6, plates 1-17. cf. Dict. nat. biog.,...

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finding the Z and the Y in the tapestry was the hardest part but they're in there if you look
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its so important to me that the biggest medieval warhorses were max 14 hands high like the pony on the left and not massive beasts like on the right
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idk exactly how tall the horse on the left is but wikipedia said dales ponies are like 14 hh on average so
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admittedly some outliers but! medievalwarhorse.exeter.ac.u…
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livestock were soooo much smaller in the past. medieval swedish cattle were found to measure 100-110cm at the shoulders
weird medieval guys NEW BOOK OUT NOVEMBER 5!!!
@WeirdMedievalOct 4
its so important to me that the biggest medieval warhorses were max 14 hands high like the pony on the left and not massive beasts like on the right
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