Award-winning & bestselling author at Vinci Books | Co-host of Vikingology Podcast | Lecturer at @medievalistsnet (get 10% off all courses with code 'ADRIEN')
If DNA tests can’t tell you if you have a Viking somewhere in your family tree, how could you know? The short answer is that you can’t. However, no one likes to hear that answer, so…I wrote this.
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#vikings#ancestry#history#medieval#norse
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A new Condensed Histories #podcast about #JoanofArc and the media industry around her as well as discussing whether her achievements are over hyped or not 😱
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Archetypal Storytelling: The Secret Sauce to Writing Compelling Fiction.
Lived experience is the most potent tool at a writer’s disposal, though we often spend the first half of our careers looking elsewhere for inspiration.
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The most notorious Viking of them all: fact or fiction? I explore in this deep dive on the Viking Hasting:
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#history#medieval#vikings#vikingage
When a governing faction decides that the preservation of their own power is worth the price of a madman’s vanity, they invite a chaos they cannot control. They believe they are managing the situation, but they are actually inviting ruin.
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#trump#history
HALLS OF ASGARD is a semi-cooperative social strategy game for 3-6 players where you and your tablemates take on the role of Norse gods and attempt to defeat Hela!
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#boardgames#vikings#norsemythology#tabletop#indiegame
"It is a matter of historical irony, therefore, that the narrative providing the most complete ‘set of instructions’ for individuation has been weaponized to fuel behaviors used to avoid inner reflection."
#easter#iran#writingcommunity
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Was the sovereign Kingdom of Brittany a historical reality or a masterpiece of medieval propaganda? Join author and historian C.J. Adrien as he holds the grand, romanticized 19th-century narratives of Breton independence up to the light.
https://t.co/4GCNxucwL5
#historybook
Armour, archers, and ambition ⚔️🏰 Dive into the Hundred Years’ War and the clash that reshaped medieval Europe. https://t.co/V4x6DesmjP #HundredYearsWar#MedievalWarfare
Starting Next Week: Early Medieval Brittany A.D. 800-1100, taught by @authorcjadrien - sign up for this online course at https://t.co/g5JfM3bw0p #medievalists