Dr Stephen Donnachie
@stevedonnachie
Historian of the Crusades & the Latin East, Lusignan Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Medievalist, 12th-13th Centuries, Misanthropologist. Swansea, Wales. 🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺
Continuation of William of Tyre are a like Pokemon. There's a lot of them, and I will eventually catch them all.
Went down to the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea to see the gold and silver treasure discovered off the South Wales coast from a 1583 shipwreck Coins from Spain, Portugal, and Saxony.
The Weekend is almost upon us, so to celebrate tonight's viewing will be Dante inspired.
For the past few weeks, the school near me has insisted on playing the 2005 Crazy Frog song on repeat every break time, everyday.
Though I suspect Aethelflaed wants to maker Mercia great again.
A sunny day out at Tamworth castle and an opportunity to see the Anglo-Saxon artifacts in the Staffordshire hoard.
#StGeorge, depicted by here slaying a dragon by the Swiss Master of Sierentz from the mid-15th century.
Completed my collection of royal seals of kings of England, Henry II to Henry III. Richard I is the sole green seal...because RIchard.
Its Easter. Carved wooden Depiction of the entombment from Northern France, c. 1500.
Details from the tomb of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, d. 1296, in Westminster Abbey.
Great day out seeing the ##Samurai exhibition at the #BritishMuseum
Day out at Caerphilly Castle. Only taken me 20 years of living here to get round to going.
Its the Feast of the Epiphany, so to celebrate, here is a depiction of the three magi bearing gifts from the mid 14th century Chichester-Constable Chasuble.
Its #Christmas, so here is the Saint Columba Altarpiece (or Adoration of the Kings) by Rogier van der Weyden, 1450s.
14th century depiction of the Poor Clares from thei chaoter house in Sienna by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
A great thank you to the University of Belgrade for inviting me to deliver the key note lecture at this year's Iustoria Conference, speaking on the Frederick II, the Ibelins, and the legal context to the civil war in the Latin East in the early thirteenth century.
At long last, I have finally made it to this pub. I can now cross it of my crusades historian checklist.