adammbishop.bsky.social
Professional crusadesologist. Independent scholar. Author of https://www.routledge.com/Robert-of-Nantes-Patriarch-of-Jerusalem-1240-1254/Bishop/p/book/9781032267043. He/him. I can name 200 popes, but only 6 digits of pi.
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Those giant bags of Costco chicken nuggets are addictive
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This is a bit old now, but I guess the classic account about life for the non-crusaders is by Joshua Prawer, “Social classes in the crusader states: The ‘Minorities’”, in the Wisconsin History of the Crusades (in volume 5, from 1985)
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I don't think this guy is actually supposed to be papabile (he's probably way too young for one thing), but it's fun to imagine a Palestinian pope. Well I mean he's Italian but obviously very vocally pro-Palestine
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That's a really good question...there are a few books but they're all kind of dry reading. I would say Christopher MacEvitt, "The Crusades and the Christian World of the East" is a good one that's recent (and accessible). Otherwise this sort of stuff is mostly in articles and chapters in other books
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They're the laws for the bourgeosie or the middle class people (merchants mostly, but really anyone who wasn't an aristocrat, who had a different set of laws). In the crusader states they were also the laws for Muslims, Jews, and any other non-Catholic people
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Abraham is actually Matt Groening's grandfather's name (and Homer and Marge are his parents)
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One way to periodize the crusades is the short century from 1099-1187, the length of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Now I'm all hopped up! I should have picked a fight
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The Conservative guy here also lost the previous election, then ran for city council and won, so now he's the councillor for our ward. But he's giving up on that to run in the provincial election again. Distasteful lust for power
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It was pretty polite this time. Two elections ago they tried to argue with me. They said I was "too young to remember Bob Rae". Nice try! I'm definitely not, and I'm also old enough to remember Mike Harris. They didn't show up at all last election and I assumed my address was on a blacklist
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Hired goons?!
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Maimonides implies the existence of Junimonides, Julimonides etc
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Here in my BlueSky bubble I'm not really seeing it, but I know there's a lot of future collaborators who would welcome it
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I dedicated mine to my wife and kids. I wrote that I hoped they didn't notice I was writing a book. I meant that I always wanted to be present and attentive and not distracted/obsessed with writing...but they thought I was making fun of them. Should have used something more succinct like yours, heh
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Jane Eyre
Jane Watir
Jane Erthe
Jane Fyre
Jane Herte
by your poweres combynede, ic am Capitain Planete
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First of all you can't just change the lyrics to a classic song that might as well be the national anthem. Choking on my own rage here
And secondly Stompin Tom already has a Football Song!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqj...
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The "all the world's a stage" speech in As You Like It mentions a child mewling and puking
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Well it's high school so all the classes are a bunch of fluff. I'm happy he found another thing he's interested in though
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Wait a minute, if Georgiou ended up somewhere random in time thanks to...shenanigans, ok, whatever, but how did San get there? He can cross over from the Mirror Universe but he didn't go forward in time. He should be significantly older! Maybe I am mad after all!