Hot take de Eleanor Janega, historienne :
Les Croisés étaient une bande de losers.
Et je peux confirmer qu’à chaque fois que je m’intéresse un peu aux croisades, j’en apprends un peu plus sur comment c’était globalement une série d’échecs, menées par des chefs qui y sont généralement restés eux aussi, après avoir fait massacrer des tas de gens.
https://going-medieval.com/2025/07/09/on-crusades-or-how-not-to-identify-with-losers/ (en anglais)
#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive
#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers
#1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval
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Until last spring, everyone wanted to see the new European Copyright Directive pass; then German MEP Axel Voss took over as rapporteur and revived the most extreme, controversial versions of two proposals that had been sidelined long before as the Directive had progressed towards completion.After...
as you may have heard, the Princes in the Tower are in the news again, 540 years after their supposed deaths. recently, Philippa Langley, who famously help find Richard III's body in a parking lot back in 2012, hosted a television special in the UK which alleged a new theory about the Princes in the Tower: they survived and later returned to the island in attempts to take back the throne. as you may recall from our series on the Wars of the Roses, the historical consensus is that the young Princes were murd
Nice post from
@DrEleanorJanega -- (clearly not here, maybe someday)
Uses the "fall of Rome" as a great metaphor for Twitter & it's successor states.
https://going-medieval.com/2023/07/26/on-successor-states-and-websites/
That was the last post in my RSS feed that came during my vaycay. I'm all caught up.
Any fule kno that Saturday is #Caturday, and today's woke felinism comes from Dr #EleanorJanega, the earthiest of all the Medivelist Bloggers, author of the superb *Once and Future Sex*, all about dirty dirty medieval people and their filthy filthy habits:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval
One of Janega's winningest formulas is "Find a dopey thing about medieval people racing around social media and then set the ignorant straight in a world-beating, *extremely* well-informed rant."
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