Matthew Hoskin, Professional Nerd
@mjjhoskin
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Late antique history & philology: manuscripts, canon law, letters, popes, Latin lit, Roma aeterna. Professor of Christian History, Davenant Hall.
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Joined September 2017
RT @PiersatPenn: What goes up... The Wheel of Fortune, miniature from The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, XIII century, cod. 2642, fo…
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c7th/9th Life of St Samson of Dol (d. 565), one of the Welsh who went into exile in Brittany and wrought wondrous works there to the glory of God.
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People are concerned with clergy bringing hobby horses into preaching. But what if their hobby horse is anything Arthurian?
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Obviously OP isn't a knob, but I'll take the opportunity to say that if you check out the kind of Renaissance lit Lewis loved ("If you're tired of Ariosto, you're tired of life!"), Father Christmas, Bacchus, and the Minotaur all "fit".
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@PhilipDBunn I generally assume that my lack of knowledge of normal ppl interests is at play in situations like this, not that the performer is obscure.
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RT @JonathanMcK1647: Actually, resurrecting Nazism is a stupid idea. It’s entirely unnecessary and damages real attempts at reviving classi…
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@RDLaverty @2D0XPS Couldn't use a union director for Empire. "We let you get away with it once..."
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Beer "is used in preference to other beverages by all the nations in the world-except the Scotch and barbarous nations who inhabit the ocean-that is, in Gaul, Britain, Ireland, Germany and the other nations who do not deviate from the customs of the above." -Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanis 26
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I appreciate the nod to the fact that King Arthur was a Christian.
And Stonehenge was associated with Arthur (a Christian king) by the 12th century, so it's not impossible that medieval people were inclined to see all megalithic structures as potentially Arthurian, and therefore not intrinsically 'pagan'. They had no idea how old they were!
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I grew up in Rocky Mountain House and live in Thunder Bay, where I worked at Fort William Historical Park, in whose Great Hall hangs a replica of Thompson's map. David Thompson is well worth knowing!
On this day in 1857, my favourite historical figure, David Thompson, died in Montreal. One of the greatest land geographers in history, he mapped 4.9 million sq-km of North America. Let's explore his life :) 🧵1/16
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One of my favourites
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RT @ENortonHistory: The Victorian copy of the Bayeux Tapestry held by Reading Museum is a remarkable achievement. Created by the Leek Embro…
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It's amazing to see people with fringe views criticize historians who have read the availabile evidence as being ignorant fools who publish what they're told so they can get grant funding. Just. Wow.
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My wife and daughter don't think I can get to 5000 followers. Being honest, I didn't even consider that I could get as far as I have gotten at all. Now I want to get to 5000 followers. Help me out?
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