


Intiworshipper
672 posts

@Intiworshipper
Nerd. Interested in history mostly.








Roxelana y Solimán I se escribían cartas y poemas apasionadísimos. @DarinaMarty se lo cuenta a @VirginiaRiezu en el nuevo episodio de #GenteMuerta ❤️🔥podimo.es/gentemuerta ¿Por quién arde en llamas vuestro hígado y late vuestro corazón-cruasán? 🥐


The Hungarian TV media is very state-controlled, the elections are EXTREMELY gerrymandered for the rurals, and Orban’s used corruption to control state institutions. But it’s an *electoral authoritarian* regime. The opposition can win, it’s just unduly very hard

"Spain my homeplace, Italy my good grace, and Flanders my death's embrace." - Gonzalo Correas





I think Keith Thomas is basically my favourite historian. He has such a brilliant and vigilant eye for the strangeness of the past. He never lazily assumes that people 400 years ago would share modern attitudes to anything - war, morality, ghosts, lobsters...