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The Public Medievalist: Unveiling the links between the Middle Ages and today. Tweets by @past_present
Nov 5, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
Welcome to all our new followers! The Public Medievalist is an online magazine devoted to bringing medieval history to modern people and examining the ways that the Middle Ages are used today. publicmedievalist.com/wtfaq/ If you’re new to TPM and have no idea where to start reading our stuff, we just started the Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages series a few weeks ago. You can find that here: publicmedievalist.com/gsma-toc/
Apr 24, 2018 13 tweets 3 min read
Hi! Paul here-- you've happened upon one of the perhaps thorniest questions inherent in that poster and in our series: "Where Were the Middle Ages?" (thread) First, a note about the poster-- as I hope is clear, the poster is meant to be a necessary simplification of some very complex and nuanced ideas in order to "shake up" or "break the ice" on some of the calcified ways that the public thinks about the medieval past.