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medievalpoc

6 years

People of color are not an anachronism. Art history can be a mirror for everyone, you just have to keep looking. <3 Portrait of a Young Woman, form. att. Jean-Etienne Liotard Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer

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medievalpoc

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7 years

Nazis aren't very happy that I keep posting the *original* medieval European bearer of this standard, Saint Maurice (right):

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@medievalpoc

7 years

They're carrying around the shield of Saint Maurice, a Black ROMAN Saint who was martyred for refusing to kill.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

And this is why I'll keep this up...because honestly, the majority of people feel super comfortable asserting this as if its a fact, mostly based on ubiquitous casting of white actors in fantasy fiction TV & films.

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@OhMarjorieOh

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@candaceshaw @medievalpoc I'm fairly certain there were no black people in 13th century Belgium

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@medievalpoc

7 years

PLEASE. Write a story. Paint a picture. Create, teach, curate, and learn. Don't wait for permission because we'll never get it.

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@medievalpoc

7 years

Hairstyles for Black Women in the Victorian Era:

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@medievalpoc

8 years

Black Women in Early Modern European Cameos:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

#1800sWeek ! Okay! So! Works like these fall under the category of "Orientalism". They do not accurately represent any culture or people, and were created as sort of Western fantasies of "The Middle East" and/or "Asia". The history of the term and the concept are complicated.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

These Nazis are ignorant liars telling themselves a fantasy story about how History belongs only to people who look like them.

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@medievalpoc

6 years

MPoC Q&A: "Sadly, some people seem to find it brain-breaking to envision a person who isn’t white wearing a dang cravat, so this blog is full of images of actual people...have at it if you need inspiration."

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

I have a masterpost of stone portrait busts (medieval+early modern) here:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

I usually try to keep my space free of....this sort of thing, but I have to say. This sounds like it's being read directly from hate mail i get from nazis. That is *terrifying*. Not only is this conceptualization of "loss of culture" overtly racist, it's COMPLETELY IMAGINARY.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

THIS is the degree to which these vile, ignorant hatemongers are willing to misappropriate or lie about history.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

The Tiffany Problem is one of my favorites for illustrating how big the space between what people commonly believe & what is actually true can be <3 (and how our standards for fiction reflect the former more than the latter in regard to representation of marginalized people)

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6 years

I hope people realize I'm still getting harassment and death threats because someone asked me a question about a video game on tumblr back in 2013 or so and I answered it honestly.

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5 years

This woman from Zanzibar (ostensibly) holding a pangolin has captured my imagination ever since I first laid eyes on a grainy, black-and-white photocopy of this painting almost a decade ago

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@medievalpoc

6 years

Powerful Interview with Fine Art Photographer Fabiola Jean-Louis:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

9 years

Sadly, the Black Madonna of Chartres was painted over white in 2009 as a "restoration". More: http://t.co/OUS66T5F1Y http://t.co/oGArX1idxr

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6 years

"Already in 1235 blacks had been observed in the splendid retinue which Frederick brought with him on an expedition to Germany." Black Africans in Hohenstaufen Iconography by Paul H. D. Kaplan. Gesta Vol. 26, No. 1 (1987),pp. 29-36. The University of Chicago Press

Zerato 🔞

@linch_lord

6 years

@ETCanada I mean if I was making a movie that took place in midevil Germany for example well can't really use black people out well anyone who isn't white in that lol

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

5 years

Hi, everyone! It's been a while but I made it out of 2018 alive. Have one of my favorite works. Portrait of an African Nobleman (Christoph le More?), Jan Mostaert. Netherlands, c. 1525. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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@medievalpoc

5 years

Also, yes in case anyone was wondering this is taking forever. the tumblr blog for medievalpoc goes back to 2013 and has more than 8,000 posts. the number of works that have to be individually appealed because they've been falsely flagged "explicit" is probably in the hundreds

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

Giuseppe Castiglione, also known as Lang Shining (郎世寧), was born on July 19, 1688, in the central San Marcellino district of Milan, Italy. At the age of 27, he received instructions to go to China where he served as an artist at the imperial court of three emperors.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

In conclusion: the earliest known dated images of Jesus were made in a multicultural hippie town in Syria in the 3rd century with bilingual public signage by people who wore "coexist" symbols, and he looks to be a young, brown-skinned man healing people for free

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

Not one of you has to believe a single word I say about this, either. Go look for yourself. Ask your librarian. Go to a museum.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

LEARN HISTORY. Nicklaus Glockenden I Saint Maurice and His Companions Germany (1524) Missal of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, f.437v

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@medievalpoc

6 years

It always blows me away that this work is done in PASTELS, not paint! Unknown; prev. att. Jeanne Etienne Liotard Portrait of a Young Woman France (c. 1750-1799) Pastels, 40.6 x 32.4 cm; Saint Louis Art Museum

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Ivan Petrovich Argunov Portrait of Kalmyk Girl Annushka Russia (1767) Annushka, a Kalmyk girl of Western Mongolian ancestry, was a serf and pupil of Countess Varvara Sheremeteva, as was the artist, Argunov, who painted this portrait.

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7 years

If *you* want to kill me, and *I* don't want to die, those aren't two equivalent sides of an argument. Thinking that is how we got here.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

I always loved that in this painting it seems like they're trying desperately to explain to this huge cat how to hunt

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens

@PP_Rubens

7 years

Preparing cheetah for the hunt. A bit of uncharacteristic exoticism from George Stubbs, born OTD 1724. @medievalpoc

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

Did you know that the concept of "medieval" was invented in the 19th century? Additionally, many of the aesthetics we associate with that concept, and a lot of misinformation about the European middle ages and race, were also popularized at that time.

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6 years

@medievalpoc 1783 seems pretty far from the "medieval" period...

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

Check out "Project Diaspora", a recreation and interpretation of historical portraits and artworks, by Omar Viktor Diop, a Senegalese photographer:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

The next step from acknowledging this is creating space for marginalized people to fail in.

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7 years

"dont be afraid to fail" -- people allowed to recover from failure and not have it be used against them to withhold any future they may have

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medievalpoc

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8 years

Today I saw a portrait of a young Alexandre Dumas that I'd never seen before. by Achille Devéria, 1829

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@medievalpoc

7 years

They're the ones who are pathetic and desperate, trying to find an identity based solely on what it *isn't*.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

I <3 Hispano-Moresque ware! This style of pottery was created in Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), and incorporated/blended Islamic & European elements. It was the most elaborate and luxurious pottery being produced in Europe until the 15th century.

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@medievalpoc

6 years

FREE Black History Month Classroom Poster by @schweizercomics , downloadable HERE:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

About art. Art is created by humans. Humans exist in society, and so does what we make. Unfortunately, some people cherish the belief that art is somehow incapable of doing harm or impacting much of anyone. Ironically, this claim comes very often from people who claim to love it.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

The whole notion that absence of emotion is somehow connected to the truth of a statement is in itself an emotional argument, meant to uphold the privilege of the powerful to be shielded from witnessing and acknowledging the pain of the oppressed

Priyamvada Gopal ©

@PriyamvadaGopal

6 years

why, we might ask, should people outraged about racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism etc be required to be calm & measured? What happens in all of this to the right, indeed, the obligation to be angry? Power seems to demand moderation just as it feels entitled to (2/3)

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6 years

Works like this one, I share because I want to demonstrate that disabled people exist in the past, had agency and complexity just as we do today, and to contemplate the poignancy of seeing the hand that drew the hand we see- just as Hendrick Goltzius chose to depict it.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens

@PP_Rubens

6 years

Self portrait, 1588: the artist's right hand, burned & deformed when he was a child, but fine for holding burin or brush. Drawn in manner of an engraving by the amazing Hendrick Goltzius, whose day is today.

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7 years

Portrait of Gustav Badin, adopted member of the Swedish Royal Family (and one of my holy grails!! Thanks, @kringln !)

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@medievalpoc

6 years

Mystère à la Tour Eiffel: The French Lesbian Eiffel Tower Murder Mystery Period Costume Drama of Color in Which ZERO Lesbians Die that You’ve Been Waiting For (review by me)

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@medievalpoc

6 years

"Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism And Color In The Ancient World" by @SarahEBond Most of of the ancient statues we admire today were originally painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown, and many other hues

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medievalpoc

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6 years

If there is anything I could say to people it would be to please put any type of marginalized person into your creative venture regardless of whether or not it's popularly believed they "could have been" present. That's what *I* have learned by doing this.

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medievalpoc

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6 years

How about today we do a thread about Facebook Memes, the Sudarium and Saint Veronica, what medieval Europeans thought Jesus looked like, why 19th century Europeans decided to that earlier depiction of Jesus as dark skinned were a problem, and how they decided to explain it away?

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

4 years

For a spot of positivity, please know that I only survived last year due to people who believed so strongly in my work they kept supporting me, even when I was too ill to do it. Individuals have immense power to help others. Don't forget that.

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medievalpoc

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5 years

Another update: still alive, very slowly going through the motions of trying to get the tumblr unflagged while also dealing with a serious illness of my own and two medical emergencies in my family. I am so happy that 2018 is finally over. Thanks for your patience.

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medievalpoc

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6 years

"St. Ifigenia became a particularly appealing figure for women. The virgin saint is considered the protector of those forced into marriage and the advocate of those desiring to buy property." Read more about Saint Ifigenia of Nubia here:

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medievalpoc

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6 years

Oh, it works, but not in the way a lot of people believe it must in order to "work". A lot of people, even now, believe that what I do is somehow meant to "convince" racists that they're wrong. It's not-it's meant to show marginalized ppl they're entitled to take space in+

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6 years

I'll start off 1800s Week with Ira Aldridge (1807-1967), Shakespearean actor who performed in major cities throughout Europe. Théophile Gautier said in one review, Aldridge was “Othello himself, as Shakespeare has created him…quiet, reserved, classic and majestic.”

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7 years

If I must exist alongside Abe Lincoln-fights-zombies films, I wanna see Alessandro de'Medici Swording a Dragon into Half in my lifetime

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

Okay! So as requested I watched the music video for "Apeshit"; first impressions were I thought it was gorgeous, I loved the overall vibe, and I'm excited that so many people now know how MASSIVE the Raft of the Medusa is:

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7 years

Almost a decade ago my prof put this image in a powerpoint and changed my life. Whose life will *you* change today?

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@medievalpoc

7 years

And here's your #BlackHistoryMonth reminder that legendary French author Alexandre Dumas was Black, too:

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

For my fandom followers: white supremacist harassers are also showing up in person to stalk and intimidate medievalists of color at academic conventions, using the same exact tactics they use against anyone in fandom speaking out against racism. #medievaltwitter

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6 years

Sophie Okonedo as Queen Margaret in The Hollow Crown, A miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One & Two, and Henry V.

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6 years

A lot of people assume that European illuminated manuscripts must have very limited representation of human figures with dark or brown skin, and that's not really true. Historia de Proeliis (Montbaston, France c. 1340) is one with a significant percentage

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medievalpoc

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6 years

MEDIEVALISTS OF COLOR website is up and running! Resources, statements, public discourse, bibliographies, events & workshops, and more to come! #medievaltwitter #twitterstorians

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6 years

If you all are interested, I could do an Ancient Art Week here on twitter soon (kind of like I did an 1800s Week a few months ago)?

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@medievalpoc

6 years

This is now the most popular tweet I've ever tweeted-and I want to thank the medievalists who've taken a vocal stand against this kind of misappropriation of imagery by white supremacists. @dorothyk98 @Lollardfish @JonathanHsy @SLevelt @jeffreyjcohen @KarlSteel @homophonous

medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

7 years

Nazis aren't very happy that I keep posting the *original* medieval European bearer of this standard, Saint Maurice (right):

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6 years

Huang Ya Dong was a celebrity in England in the 1770s; he is known to have advised Josiah Wedgewood about the production of Chinese porcelain, & explained the principles of acupuncture to physician Andrew Duncan. This portrait of him was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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@medievalpoc

6 years

Afro-French Fencing Master Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Transgender woman Chevalier d'Éon duel at at Carlton House on 9 April 1787 in the presence of the Prince of Wales, sundry gentlemen, and fencing aficionados. more info:

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6 years

Notice people of a certain mindset only decide that "historical accuracy" is this sort of unbreakable, obligating restraint ~only~ when it comes to dodging responsibility for refusing to consider representing people who are marginalized today in a piece of media.

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6 years

Anton Domenico Gabbiani Portrait of Three Musicians of the Medici Court Italy (c. 1687) oil on canvas, 141 x 208 cm. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

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5 years

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop Saint Maurice German (c. 1520s) Oil on wood; 54 x 15 ½ in. (137.2 x 39.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum

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6 years

"Beginning in 1402, multiple Ethiopian embassies arrived throughout Europe (notably in Spain, France, and Italy). This contact was sustained [...] the church of Santo Stefano degli Abissini was built/restored in Rome specifically for Ethiopians to use"

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6 years

I happened across some discussions about me pretty much by accident, and honestly I encourage ppl to think critically about what I post. But. If the fact that I make errors leads you to believe this info is inherently "untrustworthy", please reconsider ur concept of education

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6 years

Free to download: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, ed. Joneath Spicer (opens as PDF): #book #freebook #arthistory #twitterstorians #medievaltwitter

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6 years

But anyhow, the most important thing is the same conclusion I always reach: no history justifies the exclusion of marginalized people from your creative endeavor-this is a choice YOU make and that YOU are responsible for.

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I saw this posted on Facebook, and that it was an image that had "gone viral" (to quote a friend) in less than a week. I couldn't confirm any of the statements made in the text, even whether or not this particular work was in the museum claimed. The truth was more interesting.

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6 years

Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies: Queen Victoria's Yoruba Goddaughter "A unique and admired figure in history, she spent her life between the British royal household and her homeland in Africa."

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6 years

Another myth about the middle ages that way too many people seem really convinced about

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I've been doing this since 2013 and I'll never get tired of finding new details. That file really is HUGE.

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6 years

Hieronymus Bosch Details from The Garden of Earthly Delights Netherlands (c. 1500) Oil on panel, 220 x 195 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid Full resolution: (30,000 × 17,078 pixels, file size: 222.86 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Albrecht Dürer Study of Katherina drawing on paper Germany (c. 1520s) Katherina was a middle class woman employed in the household of Portuguese merchant João Brandão. Dürer drew her portrait at the merchant's house in Antwerp in 1521, when she was 20 years old.

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It's been a while since I have been um, shocked? [CN for tweet capp'd] But apparently at some point in 2016 I inadvertently broke google and some KKK members and neo nazis were extremely upset about it and I had NO CLUE (although it explains having to close my inbox last year)

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"Uncovering the African Presence in Medieval Europe" by Adam Simmons @PublicMedieval "No Africans in medieval Europe? Tell that to the King of Nubia, who at the beginning of the 13th century took the most epic pilgrimage possible."

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In 1768, a regiment of Black British Drummers (who were paid more than regular soldiers and were in charge of corporal punishment) were sent to Boston to publicly scourge white men who had been rioting.

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I mean, why study history at all? Why think? Why not just bang rocks together and scream at the sun

Rik Smits @[email protected]

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@medievalpoc @bertus161057 @PublicMedieval So what? How is that relevant for the present?

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You don't understand that I'm not arguing with you. I'm showing people where to find physical evidence that they specifically asked me for. You being belligerently unconvinced of something isn't an area of emotional investment for me. Hence, no argument.

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Ira Aldridge, Shakespearean actor in Victorian London, posed for this forgotten abolitionist masterpiece in 1827:

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#1800sWeek ! Charles Cordier "African Venus" France (1851) Bronze, 39.5 cm.

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#1800sWeek ! José Tapiro y Baró A Tangerian Beauty Spain (1876) Watercolor on paper, 26 x 18 1/2 in. Orientalism: Dahesh Museum of Art:

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The sheer amount of time I have had to sincerely explain to people that Westeros isn't a real place so, no, things were NOT "just like that back then" is daunting, to say the least

M. Kei (he/him) WEAR A MASK

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6 years

@medievalpoc @cypheroftyr Speaking as a historian, I can confirm: fantasy worlds aren't real!

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I have a surprising amount of content about #fencing :

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The Aethiopica is a Greek romance by Heliodorus of Emesa that became massively popular across Europe c. 1550-1650, and many artworks were commissioned depicting scenes from the play, including ten large canvasses by Dutch artist Karel Van Mander III c. 1645.

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As for Brussels, I mean...here's artwork of an Ethiopian princess entering the city with Joanna of Castile, from "the oldest illustrated testimony of a princely entry in Burgundy." Belgium (1496) Berlin Kupferstichkabinett 78.D.5 f° 13r:

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Someone wants to say you can't be a knight because race/gender/ability? I'll show you a knight like YOU!

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Your regular #BlackHistoryMonth reminder that Alexander Pushkin, who revolutionized Russian literature, was Black:

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#1800sWeek ! Selika Lazevski, photographed by Felix Nadar (Paris,1861). It's my understanding she was a professional equestrian, or "écuyère de haute école". There's a short film based on her story, "The Adventures of Selika", by Sybil H. Mair:

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European Cameos Depicting Black Women:

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6 years

Omg, thank you! What utterly blows my mind every time is when people tell me how they went to a museum after seeing these works, and realized brown people where *everywhere* in the art-but they couldn't see them previously because everyone had told them they weren't there.

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@medievalpoc You do an amazing job, and it’s been eye opening for me to see what’s been overlooked and ignored in well-known and curated works.

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Frank Navarro, US History Teacher and Holocaust expert suspended after comparing Donald Trump to Hitler

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If you like the Victorian Era, I highly recommend checking out my #BlackVictoriana tag for #BlackHistoryMonth here:

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6 years

Stephen Slaughter Portrait of Two Society Women England (c. 1740s) Oil on Canvas, 123 x 100 cm. The Wadsworth Atheneum, Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection

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7 years

Until we actually take the time to extract the bigotry from our disciplines, the truth will remain hidden.

Forget the wandering warrior: Bronze Age women travelled the world while men stayed at home

The concept that men stay at home while independent women venture out into the world is considered a rather modern phenomenon.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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"White supremacists have really grabbed onto the Middle Ages [...] they get so angry and frustrated when academics and others point out that people of color were present in the medieval past." interview w/ @dorothyk98 !

Alt-right catches knight fever — but medieval scholars strike back

White supremacists claim to love the medieval past. Scholar Dorothy Kim says their fantasies are delusional

www.salon.com

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6 years

Ok but like, what I want to know is why there's such a tangible miasma of intense anxiety surrounding the idea that the canon can be revised-and/or it can be replaced. Why does "we can make it better" almost immediately get met with "BUT THEN WE WON'T HAVE ANYTHING!!"?

Now rmkarras @ all the other places too

@rmkarras

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@prof_gabriele If we threw out everything written by a sexist we would have practically no editions, pre-70’s scholarship etc. (and of course few medieval sources) So yeah, use it, but be aware of the gendered assumptions.

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

6 years

there's nothing more medieval than memes i mean has anything in medieval art NOT jousted versus a snail

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medievalpoc

@medievalpoc

5 years

Ivan Petrovich Argunov Portrait of Kalmyk Girl Annushka Russia (1767) Annushka, a Kalmyk girl of Western Mongolian ancestry, was a serf and pupil of Countess Varvara Sheremeteva, daughter of Count Sheremetev. Argunov himself was a serf of Count Sheremetev (1713-1788).

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