Antoine (@antoniusmajor.bsky.social)

Journalist with a dip in Medievalist. He/him. More dumb stuff:

[Antoine (@antoniusmajor.bsky.social) @AntoniusMajor]

Pope says, "Redemption is simple. Great hermit John of Beverley lives in a forest in England. Go and see him. He should know how to save your soul." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But holy father... I am John of Beverley.”

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@Sturgeons_Law To your point however, I think that part of the problem is the fact that the movie seems to be set in mid-19th century, which can’t really mesh with the pre-1800 class dynamics of the novel

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@Sturgeons_Law You’re right that she doesn’t hint at plantation investments, which were not universal of course, but my point was more that this is not an implausible idea, and that the Frankensteins are basically as close to these French or British aristocrats as you could get in Geneva

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@Sturgeons_Law Whether through trade – as with his mother’s family –, banking, manufacturing (of printed cottons, for example), or even just straight up owning plantations, Swiss and Genevan economic elites were deeply involved with the triangle trade and slavery!

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@Sturgeons_Law With the caveat that I have not seen GDT’s yet: Victor’s family being "counsellors and syndics" implies that they’re patrician aristocrats involved in running the state, not mere civil servants – they would have been rich and that fortune would have been invested somewhere…

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@charlesofmarch @postoctobrist It’s a quote from Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra: https://t.co/BELkkd3Ka9

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@MadocCairns Even knowing about it, the phrase is never not funny to me, can’t help but imagine this gif with OLMA bratwurst

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@JulotduLac J’espère que le septième est exclusivement filmé comme le bouquin, juste le cardinal qui raconte tout à son entourage à la première personne.

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@inthesedeserts Servette 🤝 Hearts
Maroon jerseys and Buckfast

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@mcmansionhell @_ryanruby_ This makes me wonder, have you ever read Nicola Griffith’s Hild?

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@elizaamber What kind of Xbox is it? If it’s one of the latest one Baldur’s Gate 3 is very good (and has local multiplayer!)

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@jesawyer To me the hand looks a bit more like (Italian) chancery cursive, so could be more like 16th century – would work nicely with the older text

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@TSWingard Oh god my brother is starting is MA this year, he was 12 when I came to York just after Willow closed. Nine years!!! How insane

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@TSWingard I do love how the Palais des Papes straight up looks and feels like a supervillain lair

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@LeaCline12 @BLMedieval 20 sols, so essentially 20 shillings, but AFAIK there was no such coinage in England at the time, so unless they used continental coins, it might have been paid as 240 pennies?

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@oldenoughtosay If you don’t mind removing the rind (probably the porkiest bit anyway), this Smitten Kitchen pulled pork is very easy and very good https://t.co/Dvx2DcsGgH if you have access to good dried chilies, Samin Nosrat’s braise is great too https://t.co/b5i8YdjxkP

[Lays Y. M. Farra @LYMFHSR]

TOUT COMPRENDRE À SÉGURANT, LE CHEVALIER AU DRAGON : Derrière le phénomène médiatique, la "découverte miraculeuse" d'un "roman arthurien perdu", quelles théories s'affrontent sur l'histoire de ces textes ? Découvrez-les dans notre article :
https://t.co/3GSV8XhBUa
(PDF, 100 p.)

[Antoine (@antoniusmajor.bsky.social) @AntoniusMajor]

@amisamileandme Oh yeah my grandparents and parents use theirs a lot - my dad especially since both his knee replacements