magnusarvid.bsky.social
https://magnusarvid.substack.com/ 🇩🇰 PhD, Religious Studies, University of Bergen 🇳🇴 Master's in History of Religion (the Religious Roots of Europe-programme) Bachelor's in Assyriology + minor in Modern Standard Arabic and modern middle eastern history
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@magnusarvid.bsky.socialThe wandering military historian The impressive Byzantine Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki was once joined to the Arch of Galerius and formed part of a complex built in the 4th Century AD.
Show PostYou Can Now See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years www.openculture.com/2025/10/you-...
Show PostWeigh in. Panel of stained glass with the Weighing of Souls set within a background of blue glass. English, first half of 15th century. (V&A Museum, London)
Show PostOn the feast of St. Jerome #otd, 30 Sept, here he is having a quietly tender moment extracting a thorn from his lion's paw. Lucas Cranach, 1515. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Show Post27 Sept 1304: Prince Edward (II) appointed #otd to go to #France to make homage on behalf of his father Edward I to Philip IV 'the Fair' (image from BNP shows a 15thC depiction of Edward I making such a homage)
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