rorymaclellan.bsky.social
Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
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I find the same thing in medievalism, where people's strongly held ideas about the Middle Ages are rarely accurate and often the creation of later centuries.
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Bluebloods?
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And their preferred version of the fluff is rarely the original anyway, just the one they first knew. I'm sure there's a paper linking fan ideas of canon with the invented tradition.
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Grim. Him and their defence secretary.
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I found a Hungarian professor in the 1910s who offered the British Museum his articles proving that English, French, German, and Hungarian were actually Assyrian, using only the Bible as evidence. They turned him down...
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Could the crabs be trained to hold the candles in their claws?
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And the nest was right next to the stairs leading down to the stairwell door, so you had to be fast if you decided to go to the office through the garden
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Except for one summer, when it was occupied by a very irate nesting seagull
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Just imagine the index in a history of American politics, 2016-2028:
"Catturd, call for impeachment endorsed by Elon Musk, p. 94."
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And the Black Templars especially. I wrote a bit about 40k's use of the crusades here: wp.ufpel.edu.br/poiema/grimd...
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Oh I remember you showed me that one, the guy who claims everyone in Antiquity was secretly Mark the Evangelist
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Absolutely. I wonder if there's anyone else out like him to make it a broader study
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Like Death, he comes for us all eventually.
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"Magna Carta - literally, a “Big Document,”"
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Helen Lewis, probably, as she writes on the US for them as 'Lady Liberty'.
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Interesting, we have a few more of these, LFC Ch VIII 18 to 20 are to a Guido Portinari for providing 2000 sets of armour called German rivets
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Thanks, I really appreciate it!
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Thanks!
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He's mad. And his Latin translations aren't up to much either apparently.