Megan | @megievalist

Ph.D. candidate // Medievalist // Lutheran // Wife

[Megan | @megievalist @megievalist]

hey if you want more medieval lore, find me on youtube:

https://t.co/NKdb2CCx7h

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@Rosie_Gamgee_ real

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medieval people didn't have taco tuesday so i don't think i would want to live back then, actually

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@TohuWaBohu57

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@dwightknoll they didn't have toyotathon either

[Medieval Updates @MedievalUpdates]

Motherhood in the Medieval World: Mothers in Literary and Textual Sources, c. 300–1400, eds. Kirsty Bolton, Lauren Sisson (@Brepols, May 2026)
https://t.co/Gz8KoWXN5c
https://t.co/KGFWgbzZhu
#medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalwomen #medievalsociety

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@TohuWaBohu57 you tell me what is equivalent to $1.75 carne asada tacos and an ice cold margarita when it's in the high 80°s

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@pnbphilosophy @jonathanbfine "queering literature" is absolutely a thing, but i've seen it in papers and conference talks.

undergrad shakespeare courses are 90% teaching students what the words mean.

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@LutheranAnswers that's vincent d'onofrio

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@aelfred_D my theory is that it's a riff on the Manchu queue, since the prequels loved to infuse east and southeast asian aesthetics into costuming and hair/makeup

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

One of the biggest problems that Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have created for young Angelenos is the cost of living. Affordability is crushing us. Here’s my plan to make LA life more affordable for you, and put more $$$ in your pocket. We cannot afford another 4 years of Karen.

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@ObtainerOf skill issue

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@Lady_of_Paradox congratulations, everything looks great and you look so beautiful 🤍

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@BillnTedsReport marriage is a constant metaphor for Christ's love for us!

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This chart is kinda fake!

Sex in the early medieval period was subject to more holiday restrictions according to some clerics — but were these rules followed/enforced? Not really, not much that we can tell.

In the later medieval period, attitudes towards sex on holidays relaxed. Abstinence might be suggested, but again, not compulsory or enforced.

The "is your wife pregnant/lactating/menstruating?" stuff was as much medical advice as it was clerical guidance. "STOP! SIN!" doesn't apply well here.

James Brundage's work is generally solid, but this chart confuses clerical and medical guidelines for strict rules that were enforced for the entirety of the Middle Ages.

[CTrefugees @CTrefugees]

A decision tree on when it is permissible to have marital sex according to medieval sources from "Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe" by James A. Brundage (it works out to somewhere around five times a month):

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@laetissima918 I can imagine! But it's one thing to say "it's plausible for someone to say this" and another to make the claim that "many" people at an institution act this way.

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She was in my masters cohort and I feel compelled to say that I have no idea what she's talking about.

Who would announce that she's "never read the Bible"? What was the context?

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Many of my peers at Columbia insisted that they would “never read the Bible” as if this gave them bragging rights. Little did they realize that by ignoring the most influential book in human history, they were missing the point of half the literature they claimed to study.

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"I'd like to be avenged for the fact that I have nothing to be avenged for."

- from Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'

[Grace Ryan @nycgraceryan]

@JeremiahDJohns I spend my summers wearing American flag sweaters and long skirts and I’m literally a progressive political operative

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@a1sakata1ga_ @JustinusRomanus my issue is that the historicity of it is sufficiently off enough that it's misleading

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@DStrungk many such cases

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I've heard people say that King James wrote this Bible and that the KJV is medieval.

idk

[That Anne Girl 🇺🇸⚓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AnneOfTheBooks]

I’m so curious, what percentage of people genuinely believe King James wrote the King James Bible? Like is this a common belief? Because if so wow

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@greilsarriskirk that's why i said kinda fake, but i get what you mean.

the chart presents these "rules" as if they were firm rules throughout the middle ages. that part isn't even true.

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I am happy to talk as publicly about your opinions as you have talked publicly about the people with whom you went to school. Which has been a LOT, based on your posting.

Receipts for us knowing each other + taking classes with each other are attached.

I have published and spoken on ideological orthodoxy issues in higher ed for a while, and I've done so while being enrolled at Columbia.

I love talking about issues in academia. What I criticize is your besmirchment of people you didn't make an effort to know. There are many smart, dedicated people who are quietly working and not indulging in the wild, postmodern craziness that other academics assert.

I still think we could be friends! But this broad strokes criticism of the university as a whole and the character of its affiliates does not serve the cause of honest discussion about problems in higher ed.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Hello! Before posting such snap judgements, take a moment to chat with me about my experiences. I've never met you, and I don't know who you are! I'm so glad to hear that you had a positive experience at Columbia, but not all of us were as lucky. Maybe we could be friends if we set aside our differences :)