π¨ Art β’ ποΈ Culture β’ π΅ Music β’ π¬ Cinema β’ π History
Through patterns, memory, and meaning.
Beauty as a language of time across civilizations.
10 Phrases that Originated in the Middle Ages π
Many we toss around today have surprisingly long histories.
From English law to Chaucer, French allegories to Irish chronicles.
Your everyday language was shaped by this world. π for the thread ποΈπ₯
People call it love, but Jaime and Cersei built something unnatural that rejected every rule of the world, is it still love when it exists outside nature itself? #GOT
We thought this was love. It was actually prophecy colliding with politics. Jon Snow and Daenerys were fire and ice written to cancel each other. The throne did not just divide them, it rewrote their ending. Who really wins destiny or power? π₯βοΈ
10. Treaty of Basel (1499) π₯
Maximilian I of the House of Hapsburg attacked the Swiss Confederacy to take their lands. The Swiss defeated him quickly. The treaty gave Switzerland formal independence. A state was born
10 Peace Treaties That Shaped the Middle Ages π₯
Wars weren't always settled on the battlefield. Medieval rulers turned to diplomacy. These treaties reshaped Europe and the Middle East. Some consequences lasted centuries π
9. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) π₯
Spain and Portugal fought over the Americas discovered by Columbus. John II of Portugal made a deal with Ferdinand and Isabella. They drew a line dividing the Americas between them. Both built empires from that line π