Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS

Historian of Anglo-Norman England. Researches elites, gender, and social landscapes. Passionate about prehistory, travel, and cats.

[Dr Kelcey Wilson-Lee @kwilsonlee]

Happy #MothersDay! Here is Eve - looking like every mother sometimes feels - spinning while looking after babies Cain and Abel. From lost portal at Ferrara Cathedral, now in museum there. Attrib to sculptor Nicholaus, c1135.

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

So pleased and honored to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Congratulations to all those so recognized.
https://t.co/QrMchqDxeY

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

@dramdarcy This is not true. Her letters, dictated, exist, as do the court documents. Wearing men's clothes were a major factor in her "crimes," and no, not heretical, but non-conforming. The people involved in her trial and execution were mainly secular authorities.

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

@FaraiUnVers @dramdarcy Christine de Pisan, who wrote Joan's earliest biography, also indicates in The Treasure of the City of Ladies, that noble women did lead armies, devise military strategy, and bear arms.

[The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) @AS_Corpus]

And now for some exciting news ⭐️⭐️ Sign up now for "Worked in Stone: Early Medieval Sculpture in its International Context". The conference will be held in Durham (UK) from 31 August to 4 September 2022. Registration and more information here: https://t.co/KmpGPeAXSo @AS_Corpus

[Prof Susan Oosthuizen @DrSueOosthuizen]

Amazing to see a #Neolithic esparto grass #basket from S Spain so complete you can almost see the hands that made it c.5,000BC. It's 1 of 6 - six!- baskets that once held held ochre, strands of human hair, mollusc shells & poppy seeds. https://t.co/JulLGT7LfN #archaeology

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

The Myrtle Cottage hoard: five gold aurei found under a Roman barrack block in Caerleon, fortress headquarters of the Second Augustan Legion for over two centuries. Each of the five coins represents a full month's pay for the legionary soldier that buried them and never returned.

[Dr Jo Ball @DrJEBall]

A striking #Roman glass bowl, probably made in Italy in the late C1st BC/early C1st AD. It has stripes in yellow, blue, amber, purple, green, & opaque/white. Not looking bad for a piece of crockery made around 2000 years ago! #RomanArchaeology (📷 Corning Museum of Glass)

[Trimontium Trust @TrimontiumTrust]

From #Alexandria in #Egypt under the #Roman Empire, comes this medallion of a mother & child dated to the early 4th century. The painting has been reset into a frame of a later date, but the gaze of the mother & son transcend time to look back at us today. @metmuseum collection

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

My top photos on twitter this year. In at no. 2 - incense and light at @riponcathedral

[Phillipa Vincent-Connolly FRHistS @PhillipaJC]

As a person with cerebral palsy, I actually avoided talking about disability for over 45 years unless I was forced to talk about my condition/explain my existence so this book is a huge step for me both as a disabled person and as an historian publishing my first non fiction book

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

@kateweikert Eadmer! Do tell!

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

@L_yn_kernewek Although, to the south and west are Neolithic settlements and structures along with Celtic fields.

[Glyn Coy @Glyndle]

The old Roman road from Bath to London - you can see how straight it is, and how it leads you directly to Silbury Hill. A lot of this road is now the A4, but some stretches of the original route remain #Wiltshire

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

Who buried the Galloway Hoard in ca 900 CE and why was it never recovered by its owners? Among the extraordinary silver and gold objects in the hoard is this silver vessel before reconstruction (photo by the Nat'l Museums Scotland).
https://t.co/MPcJllye3X

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

Questioning the construct of an Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain and the emergence of a dark age in Early Medieval Europe: https://t.co/4ZzGJmAWJL

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

A tiny gold bird, restored, from the Galloway Hoard and its over 100 precious items. Provenance: lands around the Irish Sea--Britain, Ireland and Scotland. Buried in about 900 CE during the Viking Age. In the care of the National Museums Scotland, exhibit open 5/29/21.

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

@SJHSG Apparently and disclosed by Cornishmen, "Celtic" fields, which still cover the landscape of the Penwith Peninsula.

[Dr S Mooers Christelow, FRHistS @basil2855]

Pre-historic field systems viewed from the B3306 from #StIves west along the #Penwith Peninsula near #Zennor. (Photo by SC, June 2010)