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| 1 | [image] John Gardner's whole chapter on Chaucer's early education as a boy is magnificient--really opens the eyes to how important it is to grow up around good books--but the closing paragraph I attached as a photo below sums up something that many medieval enthusiasts try to articulate | @TimothyEveland ✓ | 24.3K | 3.9K | 0.2x | 77 | May 14 |
| 2 | [image] It's amazing how much medieval people knew of the world. They invented "windrose lines" on charts for navigating with a compass in the late 13th century, which led to "rhumb lines" and the 32-point compass rose that charts still use today. This Spheres Tapestry (left image) made | @TimothyEveland ✓ | 22.7K | 3.1K | 0.1x | 85 | Apr 18 |
| 3 | [video] When you use a trained falcon to catch your dinner, rabbits and heron are on the menu!
Here is an interesting thread on medieval falconry I wrote.🧵 | @TimothyEveland ✓ | 29.9K | 1.4K | 0.0x | 28 | Aug 18 |
| 4 | [image] The Knight at the Crossroads, 1882, by Viktor Vasnetsov. | @History_Globs ✓ | 13.3K | 1.1K | 0.1x | 60 | Sep 23 |
| 5 | [image] “No weary mind may stand against Wyrd.
Nor may a broken will work new hope…”
-The Wanderer, by Unknown. | @History_Globs ✓ | 13.3K | 640 | 0.0x | 14 | Sep 24 |
| 6 | [image] David Glasgow Farragut, the first admiral of the United States Navy, was descended from the renowned 13th-century knight and conquistador Don Pedro Farragut.
Don Pedro served under King James I of Aragon also known as El Conquistador. (James the Conqueror). Ruling from 1213 to | @History_Globs ✓ | 13.3K | 635 | 0.0x | 12 | Sep 28 |