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Not expalining WHY bookburning is bad and WHAT books were targeted has left us with Bookworm uwu girlies treating any art project or act involving destorying/modifying any random ass mass printed novel as if it was a crime against humanity

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Marsilio Ficono: 'intellectuals require a special regimen in order to maintain their health because they are often beset by an abundance of black bile and therefore given to melancholy'¹

Academia: giving students depression since the fifteenth century

¹ Marsilio Ficino, De triplici vita

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Modern people: 'the middle ages were so backwards!'

A thirteenth-century Spanish physician: 'If you want to be healthy, wash your hands often'¹

¹ Arnau de Vilanova, Regimen sanitatis Salernitatum

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the art of books

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me throwing the canterbury tales across the room: flying chaucer

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here's a fun parchment fact for you re: reusing a surface: sheepskin was often used for legal documents because it's hard to scrape out a word and rewrite without it being obviously damaged, unlike good quality calfskin where it can be undetectable that something has been altered

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The best genre of family portrait is and will always be Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife

Barbara Krafft, Die Familie Anton von Marx 1803

Marie-Geneviève Bouliard,Monsieur Olive & family 1791

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old 19th & 18th century books ..

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“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

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We need to change the angle from which we approach queer historical figures.

Considering d'Eon's Amazonian gender presentation would she identify as nonbinary if she was alive today?

Bad question! Focuses on the unknowable and teaches us nothing about queer history.

What is the cultural significance of the social role of the Amazon and what does it tell us about how gender was understood in 18th century France and England? Does it suggest that gender wasn't seen as a strict binary and was in fact a spectrum? If so how did d'Eon fit into this gender spectrum and what do her writings on gender reveal about 18th century gender?

Good questions! Actually asks us to think about queer history!

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

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started reading The Two Towers

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actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

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The Lovers of Valdaro/ Dinosaurs, Laura Gilpin/ Broomistega and Thrinaxodon

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Hot take:

Futuristic fantasy stories that DON’T quantify and rationalize magic to some measurable degree (midichlorians, aura, power levels) are actually Badly Written because, and hear me out: people quantify everything. Calories, acidity, solubility, decibels, milliliters, the Scoville scale tells you how hot a pepper is. Ancient fantasies, myths, and post-apocalyptic stories can get away with vague rules because they don’t know how to close an electrical circuit so they can light a room, let alone measure radiation wavelength. If you want me to buy that your civilization has been practicing magic for ten thousand years in a flourishing empire with magic academies, there had better be a thermometer they can stick in your mouth to see how many magic points you are putting out right now.

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What made ya'll think that cravats and stockings could only be white?